Turning Disciplinary Knowledge Into Solutions

Turning Information into Knowledge

Lotus Notes, a broad-based software environment tailored for access to distributed databases and electronic communications, has been called the "foundation of a virtual library." Its flexibility and ability to incorporate numerous databases across domains make it a contemporary "microcosm" of how electronic resources can be a tool for organizational learning. Lotus Notes is a particularly rich ...

Turning Knowledge Management Strategy into Corporate Growth

Built on the knowledge management and corporate growth literatures, this paper examined the antecedents of knowledge management strategy and its consequences. Grounded in the resourcebased view and corporate growth theory, this study found that a firm’s knowledge management strategy and strategic performance relate to long term corporate growth. Learning orientation has also been found relates ...

Turning the Web into an Effective Knowledge Repository

The weight of dynamically generated content versus static content has progressed enormously. Preserving accessibility to this type of content raises new issues. However, there are no large-scale mechanisms to enforce referential integrity in the WWW. We propose a system, comprised of a distributed web-proxy and cache architecture, to access and automatically manage web content, static and dynam...

Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge

Web search engines have stored in their logs information about users since they started to operate. This information often serves many purposes. The primary focus of this survey is on introducing to the discipline of query mining by showing its foundations and by analyzing the basic algorithms and techniques that are used to extract useful knowledge from this (potentially) infinite source of in...

Turning Qatar into a Competitive Knowledge- Based Economy