in new millennium, we encourage with rapid changes in technologies and complexity of environment. in such situations, create sustainable competitive advantage, requires new type of organization that have the ability to create qualitative knowledge. higher education institutes including agricultural faculties to meet challenges ahead, require knowledge creation and manage it. so, managers of agr...

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...

Two recent innovations are likely to improve the effectiveness of organizational knowledge management (KM): the use of peers instead of experts and Wiki approaches. Both of these are associated with KM systems that focus on a codification strategy, as distinct from a personalization strategy. Codification KM strategies are exemplified by the creation of knowledge repositories — such as “lessons...

The common de facto of a KM strategy needs to move beyond outlining ‘know-how’ goals such as ‘becoming a knowledge-enabled enterprise’ to the realities of ‘know-why’. In fact the latter may prove to be more significant as it denotes levels of creativity and innovation which are key drivers to organizational performance. As such, the strategy must identify the key needs and issues within the org...

In this manuscript, we present an overview of the clinical knowledge management strategy at Intermountain Healthcare in support of our electronic medical record systems. Intermountain first initiated efforts in developing a centralized enterprise knowledge repository in 2001. Applications developed, areas of emphasis served, and key areas of focus are presented. We also detail historical and cu...

This paper presents a hybrid approach to understanding the knowledge management requirements for a knowledge intensive service organization. It proposes a strategy-knowledge management alignment framework grounded in literature. The framework was constructed by studying four published case-studies that tackle knowledge management at world class management consulting firms. The paper then applie...

the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

there is a little room for doubt that lake urmia, which is the second largest permanent hyper saline lake in the world,is currently suffering from a lack of appropriate management strategy. accordingly, this study was done using the swotmatrix to analyze the key factors affecting declining water levels and increasing salinity. results of group decisionmakingby brainstorming among a group of exp...

This section is a collection of shorter “Issue and Opinions” pieces that address some of the critical challenges around the evolution of digital business strategy. These voices and visions are from thought leaders who, in addition to their scholarship, have a keen sense of practice. They outline through their opinion pieces a series of issues that will need attention from both research and prac...

There is a trend in fashion product industry that firms launch new styles of their products more frequently. To investigate the optimal style launching strategy for a fashion firm, we propose a twoperiod pricing model for a fashion product firm. The firm sells a style of products in the first period as well as that he may utilize three different strategies in the second period, i.e., (i) the N-...