"Inquiring Organizations‎:‎ Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom‎'‎ assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C‎.‎ West Churchman‎'‎s Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer‎-based inquiring systems design and implementation‎.‎ Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment‎.‎ While self‎-adaptive is an appropriate adjective for inquiring systems‎,‎ they are critically different from self‎-adapting systems as they have evolved in the fields of computer science or artificial intelligence‎.‎ Inquiring systems draw on epistemology to guide knowledge creation and organizational learning‎.‎ As such‎,‎ we can for the first time ever‎,‎ begin to entertain the notion of support for "wise" decision‎-making‎.‎ Readers of "Inquiring Organizations‎:‎ Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom" will gain an appreciation for the role that epistemology can play in the design of the next generation of knowledge management systems‎,‎ systems that focus on supporting wise decision‎-making processes‎.‎