Virtual and large organizations are facing issues of reduced knowledge transparency. Graph-based knowledge management (KM) systems promise to improve transparency: They visualize connections between individuals and fields of expertise and are thus able to display shared organizational context that may otherwise be buried in traditional document management systems. In this paper, we present a sy...

There are many barriers to implementation of knowledge management (KM) strategies. These include a lack of time and financial resources allocated to sharing knowledge, a lack of organizational understanding of the philosophy and the benefits of KM and a lack of skills in KM. However survey data shows that greatest acknowledged obstacle to the implementation of a KM strategy is the management cu...

The industrial economy in developed countries is transforming into a new “economy of the information age”. For nearly every company, complex, often radical and dramatic transformation needs are created. Executive programs in continuing education, however, are usually focussing on business “administration” rather than on business transformation. For a successful management of change projects, it...

nowadays knowledge and technology have become more important in organizations. sometimes the organizations forget their knowledge and skills unconsciously due to information inconsistencies and sometimes they forget their knowledge and skills consciously to become more agile. some aspects of forgetting are useful while the other aspects are harmful. moreover information technology has made a ba...

BACKGROUND The current financial crisis and the increasing burden of chronic diseases are challenging hospitals to enhance their innovation capacity to deliver new and more effective health services. However, the shortage of skills has been widely recognized as a key obstacle for innovation. Ensuring the presence of a skilled workforce has become a priority for the health system in Portugal and...

Purpose: Recent global security surveys indicate that security training and awareness programs are not working as well as they could be and that investments made by organizations are inadequate. The purpose of the paper is to increase our understanding of this phenomenon and illuminate the problems that organizations face when trying to establish an information security awareness program. Desig...

Interpersonal relationship require sophisticated competences of cohabitation. However, the availability of training tools to develop conflict management skills is limited and problematic. The prisoner's dilemma game (PDG), the most widely known example of game theory, a nonzero-sum game, has been used, in higher education, to provide students with an opportunity of active learning and for under...

Received: 18 March 2013 Revised: 10 June 2013 Accepted: 11 June 2013 Abstract This paper extends previous studies on knowledge management by analysing factors affecting Web Knowledge Sharing (WKS) in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, the impact of WKS on organizational innovation and the moderating effect of IT skills on this relation are analysed. Grounded in the technolog...

In a business world that everything changes fast, continuous innovation become a key strategy for survival. Knowledge management, which deals with the effective transfer and reuse of knowledge and best practices within a firm, has been theorized as one of the facilitators of organizational innovation. Yet, no organizational innovation can be achieved without the creative performance of their in...

Academia generally employs a strict disciplinary model of education that results in a high degree of specialization within each discipline, while modern business environments require knowledge workers who can address problems and opportunities that cut across disciplines and on a global scale. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a new and innovative educational activity that ...