Chapter 1: Knowledge Economy and Intelligent Enterprises

Sushil K. Sharma
Ball State University, USA

Jatinder N. D. Gupta
University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

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Abstract

Intelligence enterprises are evolving where knowledge management and other business intelligence (BI) solutions provide the in-depth analytical capabilities needed to turn raw data into actionable knowledge for an enterprise. This chapter describes why there is a need for such intelligent enterprises in knowledge-based economy and how to create those enterprises.