This paper reviewed the relationships between the Knowledge Management (KM) activities and its perceived benefits in the knowledge based organizations. KM activities include: knowledge identification, knowledge acquisition, knowledge application, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation and knowledge preservation. And the perceived benefits of KM are fast customer responsiveness, operation excelle...

conclusions it was concluded that hcos need an hit clearly designed with km and they have to recognize where knowledge is resided, when designing strategies to warrant that knowledge is being created and transferred in the best way and to the right persons. otherwise, the hcos do not use an efficiency-oriented hit. results according to the obtained results 15% of the subjects highly used clinic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to distinguish and describe knowledge management (KM) technologies according to their support for strategy. Design/methodology/approach – This study employed an ontology development method to describe the relations between technology, KM and strategy, and to categorize available KM technologies according to those relations. Ontologies are formal specificat...

Problem statement: Knowledge Management (KM) has been a practice in many organizations to improve its performance towards reaching the organization goals. Realizing its importance, University Utara Malaysia has organized a series of KM conference called KMICe that focus on the recent and novel research findings related to KM. This special issue covers articles that were presented at KMICe 2010....

Purpose – Many terms commonly used in the field of knowledge management (KM) have multiple uses and sometimes conflicting definitions because they are adapted from other research streams. Discussions of the various hierarchies of data, information, knowledge, and other related terms, although of value, are limited in providing support for KM. The purpose of this this paper is to define a new se...

introduction knowledge is continuously being produced in the process of formulating and implementing rural development projects. the capital is available without any cost, but it is neglected. knowledge has been distributed along the extensive network through the country. if knowledge management is recorded and exploited, it could lead to dramatic changes as a result of the butterfly approach. ...

BACKGROUND Diffusion of innovations theory has been widely used to explain knowledge mobilization of research findings. This theory posits that individuals who are more interpersonally connected within an organization may be more likely to adopt an innovation (e.g., research evidence) than individuals who are less interconnected. Research examining this tenet of diffusion of innovations theory ...