Main Obstacle to Knowledge Management in a Company

The graph below was created using Google’s graphing tools.

This horizontal bar graph shows the main obstacles that European executives identify as preventing the use of knowledge and the flow of information into knowledge within their companies.

The results in the graph were obtained by the Economist Intelligence Unit in a survey of European Executives, with 122 responses. These results were published in a report, which can be accessed by clicking here (PDF file).

Knowing the main obstacles to knowledge creation in a company should be helpful in implementing goals and projects to overcome the obstacles. Another result of the survey is that knowledge creation and management is a major company problem and goal.