This interesting article about decision making emphasizes the close link between the treatment of internal and external information, understanding of events resulting from it, their transformation into knowledge and decision making.

From the working hypothesis of the author, that decision making can be defined as knowledge management in real time, it is crucial that organizations adopt a comprehensive KM strategy: its policy, its implementation and technological support.

Social KM and its fundamental principles give meaning here:

• Facilitate the appropriate use of information provided by people,
• by their qualification, responsible dissemination, capitalization and
• their promotion through exchanges.