Knowledge is an important matter for consulting firms − as a resource, as a product or service, and as a trigger for internal value creation processes. Therefore, a strategy for management and utilisation of knowledge in its different state is needed. It is sensible to assume, that this strategy is strongly influenced by a respective consulting firm’s business model. This paper provides an anal...

introduction: the subject of knowledge, as one of the most valuable sources of every organization, has recently gained more importance in businesses and industries, especially in governmental organizations. therefore, this study aimed to explore and prioritize the most important subjects in the field of hospital management to be documented in knowledge management system of the iranian ministry ...

This paper proposes a new approach to simulation modeling of natural systems in the context of water quality modeling in streams affected by point source pollution. The approach has a potential for application to other domains of natural resource modeling. Its conceptual basis is knowledge-based simulation and systems analysis. In the approach presented in this paper, a stream or its section is...

Maintenance and support may account for as much as 60 to 75% of the total lifecycle cost of a manufacturing system. This paper presents a review on the predictive maintenance approaches, methods and tools in manufacturing systems and proposes an integrated predictive maintenance platform. This platform consists of three pillars, namely data acquisition and analysis, knowledge management, and a ...

Decision-support systems often include a strategy for selecting tests in their field of application. This strategy in essence captures procedural knowledge and serves to provide support for the reasoning processes involved. Generally, a test-selection strategy is offered in which tests are selected sequentially. For our field of application, we noticed that such a strategy would be an oversimpl...

The assumption of the work presented in this paper is the situatedness of the change process. The Enterprise Knowledge Development Change Management Method (EKD-CMM) provides multiple and dynamically constructed ways of working to organize and to guide the change management. The method is built on the notion of labeled graph of intentions and strategies called a road map and the associated guid...

The Norwegian Armed Forces is taking part in military joint operations on an international basis. When planning and executing military joint operations, a knowledge management strategy known as center of gravity analysis is often used. Given the constant need to improve the processes involved in planning and executing operations, the use of an alternative knowledge management strategy is propos...