Learning processes do not occur only within, but also between enterprises. There is, therefore, a need for inter-organizational in addition to intra-organizational knowledge management. Since much of the communication and interaction among organizations takes place on the internet, it is logical to use internet applications to support the relating knowledge management tasks. The paper derives t...

Because of increased job requirements, workforce flexibility and lifelong learning, corporate training services have grown into a key approach for improving organizational performance. Transfer-of-training is a key output of these services, defined as the application and generalization of new competences at work acquired in training. Today corporate trainings focus on blended learning by combin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest principles and framework for comprehensive societal knowledge management (SKM) for countries to provide acceptable conditions for their citizens and businesses and to participate equitable in the globalized knowledge economy. Design/methodology/approach – Foundations for SKM principles and framework are based on requirements and practical experi...

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How does e-learning support group work in university information and communication technology (ICT) education within a blended learning environment? While face-to-face interaction was possible for oncampus student group work, distance education students could only perform their group work online. This research adopted a qualitative case study approach. It explored the e-learning use by students...

Applying Concurrent Engineering in a company has a significant influence on the way information is dealt with. This influence is discernible for information on orders, products and resources. The impact of this influence on the product is determined, from which an extended role for the product information structure comes forward. On this product information structure, the overall product life c...

Currently a large scale infrastructural mall development of 48000 m is being constructed adjacent to the Mooi River in the central business district of the city of Potchefstroom. This development is facing significant environmental and social challenges due to the highly sensitive environment in which the development is being constructed. In projects like the Mooirivier Mall Development the act...

Increasing financial pressures on academic publishing and a rapid rate of change create a need for a wider range of financial information to ensure optimum efficiency, and to ensure that the financial implications of new developments are fully understood and planned for. The article describes a number of practical techniques and concepts to respond to these new requirements. Learned Publishing ...

Knowledge management (KM) and e-learning are two concepts that address the requirements of lifelong learning. Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on the integration of knowledge management and e-learning systems. By 2003, 70% of organizations implementing knowledge management were linking it with e-learning technically and organizationally (Gartner, 2000). The integr...

Senior executives often criticise the lack of visible returns from expensive investments in Information Technology (IT). In addition, accelerating changes in market environments demand higher business flexibility from IT services which exacerbates the difficulty of managing a return on IT-investment. This paper conducts a state-of-the-art review of methods currently in use for IT controlling, v...