The objective of this paper is to determine symptoms of organizational hubris in entrepreneurial ICT settings and to examine whether the environmental conditions of the ICT sector particularly trigger these symptoms. For this purpose, a theoretical framework is developed to transfer existing findings related to organizational hubris in large and established organizations to entrepreneurial ICT ...

In a conceptual model for knowledge bases the data and knowledge are represented formally as “items”. The foundation of this model is a “basis” consisting of data items. “Objects” are “item building” operators that are applied to the basis to build the information items and knowledge items in the conceptual model. Objects may be decomposed. In this way the knowledge in the resulting conceptual ...

The first years in a teacher’s career are known to be very hard. In fact, know-how, resulting from experience, is rather poor. And at the same time, there are seeds of know-how distributed in each experienced teacher and constituting a real gold mine. Finding the means of transferring this know-how constitutes a challenge for the knowledge society. We propose here a solution based on a know-how...

Building on the complexities of practical measurement of knowledge management (KM) in companies, we describe a practical approach to evaluating knowledge flows and managing knowledge more effectively. A panEuropean survey revealed what people believe about truth, knowledge and the optimum approach to KM from their perspective. Practical results highlight the differences in KM requirements in ep...

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The project involves the development of a custom designed hybrid AI application for a company for capturing process improvement knowledge. The company in question is based in Bangalore and is a vendor to General Electric. Considering the competitive nature of the manufacturing industry and the demands from customers for competitive prices, it has become necessary for vendor companies to not onl...

Configuration systems often use large and complex knowledge bases that need to be maintained and extended over time. The explicit representation of problem-solving knowledge and factual knowledge can greatly enhance the role of a knowledge acquisition tool by deriving from the current knowledge base, the knowledge gaps that must be resolved. This paper details EXPECT’s approach to knowledge acq...

Knowledge integration is the process of incorporating new information into a body of existing knowledge (Murray and Porter, 1989). This process is a cycle of knowledge acquisition, formulation, recognition, elaboration, and adaptation. Knowledge acquisition is the act of gathering facts. These facts must be formulated into the language of the underlying representation of some knowledge base. Re...