Operational Competence Management Comparison of Industrial Frameworks

Operational Competence Management Comparison of Industrial Frameworks

Competence management is a quite recent but important topic addressed by nowadays companies for improving their organization. With examples coming from several industrial projects, we show the difficulty of defining a consistent competence management framework, and exhibit the inconsistencies which can result from an insufficient analysis of this domain. Some guidelines are suggested in order t...

Knowledge Management: A Review of Theoretical Frameworks and Industrial Cases

It has been observed that the major competition advantage for a corporation lies in the corporation’s knowledge and therefore ‘<knowledgemanagement” has become a critical issue. In order to accelerate the research progress in knowledge management, this paper has integrated previous knowledge management frameworks into a comprehensive theoretical framework. Based on this framework, eight cases i...

Maintaining Industrial Competence

Poor quality software and projects that fail to deliver are a toofrequent occurrence. There is thus a clear need for greater professionalism throughout the sector and this must be supported by appropriate Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Details are presented of foundation work, undertaken since 2000, relevant to the on-going professional development of IT practitioners. Information i...

Developing Operational Competence in Purchasing

This paper contributes to the emerging theory of purchasing competence. First, it replicates and cross-validates the construct with the five underlying supply-side competence dimensions of Narasimhan, Jayaram and Carter (2001), using telephone survey data from 200 high-turnover European companies. The addition of an IT Competence dimension to the construct is proposed and empirically validated....

War Powers: The Operational Code of Competence