Abstract

ARIAS PEREZ, José Enrique  and  ARISTIZABAL BOTERO, Carlos Andrés. Data, information, knowledge and its productivity in companies of the public sector of Medellín. Semest. Econ. [online]. 2011, vol.14, n.28, pp.95-109. ISSN 0120-6346.

The objective of this article is to identify the data side, the information and the knowledge for two different organizations of Medellin's public sector, EPM-UNE and ISA. Both with vast experience in knowledge management and determine which is the existent type of relation between these concepts and the knowledge productivity. The research has a qualitative scope and semi structured interviews where performed for the data collection, opened codification and axial process where also held and schemes where built for their analysis. Concerning the results, it can be evidenced that these organizations, their data meanings, their information and knowledge are close to the constructive structure, and when this last one becomes information, and it's on data, it does not constitute a value loss, meaning by this, it does not jeopardize its productivity.

Keywords : Knowledge management; data; information; knowledge; value generation; intellectual capital.

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