The different kinds of knowledge management and their goals and hindrances at Toyota

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: 2,0, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: In this paper ¿Knowledge Management of Toyotä, the first part will show what Knowledge Management is and why it is becoming so important. It talks about the different kinds of knowledge and the goals and hindrance of knowledge management.

In the second part of this paper we look at more information about the enterprise Toyota. How it began, how they work and how they become one of the biggest automobile manufactures.

In the end there will be taken a closer look at the knowledge management of Toyota, the company philosophy and the Toyota network.