La gestión del conocimiento en la industria automovilística

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a brief outline of the history of knowledge management in the automobile industry on an international level. It provides a description of significant management experiences, including among others: the transformacion of implied into express knowledge (Honda), sosialization of knowledge books (Daimler Chysler) learning alliance (GM), collective learning (Irizar in Spain), and the intelligent agent’ system (Volvo). It ends with a discussion of the challeges faced by the automobile industry in Mexico with regad to nthe management of knowledge asssociated with its new free trade policy.