Knowledge management is a critical activity for any organization. It has been said to be a differentiating factor and an important source of competitiveness if this knowledge is constructed and shared among its members, thus creating a learning organization. Knowledge construction is critical for any collaborative organizational learning environment. Nowadays workers must perform knowledge crea...

The aim of this study is to examine how a particular object for consumption, professional development teachers and principals, marketed schools, what propositions understandings are embedded in such offers. Adopting conceptualization marketing as “perpetual questioning machine,” the deploys develops theoretical approach from studies new context: edu-marketing. guided by assumption that function...

The objectives of project control systems go beyond documentation to recognition of problems and evaluation of their causes. Through the use of broad information systems, a construction manager today is able to assemble a wide variety of data about his projects or programs. Retrieval, analysis and interpretation of the meaning of these data, however, usually requires the user to have detailed k...

The purpose of this paper is to report on a continuing research effort aimed at the design and development of large-scale international computer network connecting schools in at least ten countries throughout Latin America. Toward this end, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America have initiated a joint partnership called “Quorum: Collaboration without Boundaries.” The project is la...

Creation of knowledge and the management thereof is of great importance if industry players are to survive in competitive environments. The Socialisation-ExternalisationCombination-Internalisation (SECI) model of Nonaka is one theoretical model of how tacit and explicit knowledge is processed within organisations. Research on knowledge creation in Construction Management (CM) has made reference...

Design is a hard problem: ill defined and open-ended. Schön [Schön (83)] characterized the process of designing an artifact as a successive refinement of reflection and redesign. Critiquing the communication of reasoned opinion about an artifact plays a central role in the design process. A computational critiquing mechanism provides an effective form of human-computer interaction to support th...