%0 Research article
%T Forest planning in a Swedish company – a knowledge management analysis of forest information
%A Nilsson, Malin
%A Staal Westerlund, Dianne
%A Wahlberg, Olof
%A Eriksson, Ljusk Ola
%D 2012
%J Silva Fennica
%V 46
%N 5
%R doi:10.14214/sf.922
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/922
%X Forest data and forest information are central to forest management  planning. The knowledge a large forest-owning company possesses about  its forests could potentially be a strategic capability. In this study,  the forest-planning process of a large forest company is analyzed in  terms of knowledge management (KM). The study was conducted as a case  study of Sveaskog – the largest forest-owning company in Sweden. The  study focuses on the long-term harvest strategy through medium-term  planning until the stands are transferred to the tract bank and ready  for operational planning. Interviews with key persons within the  organization were conducted to assess how forest knowledge is used in  this process. The results are presented for the four knowledge  management processes: creation, storage-retrieving, transferring and  applying. They show that the planning system relies to a great extent on  codified knowledge realized by a push strategy.