| KB (kilobyte) |
| 1,024 bytes. |
| Kbps (Kilobits per second) |
| See knowledge management. |
| Keyword |
| A word used when searching. |
| Keyword Searching |
| A search performed in any database that looks for important words in a number of fields at one time. |
| Knowledge asset |
| Intellectual content possessed by an organization. Any piece of information that a worker at a company knows, from customer names to how to fix a piece of machinery, can be considered a knowledge asset. Assets can be codified in a variety of formats, such as PowerPoint slides, Word documents, audio and video files, and so forth. |
| Knowledge base |
| A specialized database that stores knowledge assets. |
| Knowledge management |
| The process of capturing, organizing, and storing information and experiences of workers and groups within an organization and making it available to others. By collecting those artifacts in a central or distributed electronic environment (often in a database called a knowledge base), KM aims to help a company gain competitive advantage. |
