This paper presents a framework for characterizing knowledge management systems (KMS). The framework has a descriptive nature and aims to be useful both to characterize and to drive KMS implementations, facilitating the identification and selection of appropriate tools according organization needs. A review of KMS categories was made to identify their underlying assumptions and purposes, and a ...

In this paper we develop a theory driven evaluation framework for Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). The framework builds on theoretical foundations underlying organizational Knowledge Management (KM) to identify the facilitators of different KM activities in organizations. These facilitators are then used to form a benchmark for evaluating KMS. Specifically, organizations selecting KMS can us...

This paper deals with “Knowledge Management Systems” (KMS) which are seen as a new kind of information systems supporting organizational information processing. KMS result from the application of advanced database and network technologies to support organizational learning and knowledge management approaches. A perspective-based view of organizational memory systems is used to define KMS and fo...

With the ever-growing deluge of information, knowledge management systems (KMS) have become a key technology, enabling the extraction and filtering of valuable information by integrating seemingly unconnected or hidden pieces of information to create invaluable business insights. KMS may use sophisticated technical methods such as text analysis, search and querying, or facilitate state of the a...

Knowledge management system (KMS) becomes a common medium to distribute knowledge of these days by using the IT as enabler tools for everyone to reach, share with among the members, and used it from any workplace in world at any time. In the higher learning institution sectors, the collaboration tools of KMS explore the opportunity to create, gather, access, organize, distribute and disseminate...

Ever since man first shared the knowledge of how to make fire with his fellow human beings, the management of knowledge has been employed by masters training their apprentices and by parents teaching their children. Managing knowledge is hence no new phenomenon. In recent years, however, the importance of knowledge in business and industry has risen dramatically, and shifted from being one reso...