The purpose of this paper is to investigate big data and knowledge management in the context of so-called cognitive systems, with a particular focus on IBM’s Watson as a case to illustrate both an emerging form of knowledge management and how firms are analyzing big data to generate knowledge...

This paper investigates some extensions to what has emerged as classic continuous (financial) assurance (CFA). First, this paper suggests broadening the base of information that is used in such systems to include emerging social media. Second, because of the new source of data, the methodologies...