Corporate knowledge bases: a tool for personnel management and ensuring the competitiveness of the company

In the context of digital transformation, corporate knowledge bases (KBZ) are becoming a key tool for managing information and human capital. This article explores the essence, functions, and mechanisms of implementing KBZ in the personnel management system. Corporate knowledge bases are a centralized data warehouse that accumulates internal documents, structures, training materials, and cases. The paper emphasizes that CBMs contribute to optimizing the processes of adaptation, training, evaluation and retention of employees, as well as preserving corporate memory. Special attention is paid to the stages of information collection, access organization, and implementation of monitoring and analytics tools. Using the example of Google and IBM practices, it is shown how the use of KBZ accelerates learning processes, improves internal communication and increases employee productivity. The article concludes that in the context of accelerated digitalization, corporate knowledge bases play an important role in the sustainable development of companies, creating an innovative environment and maintaining high efficiency of business processes.