The strategic management of knowledge assets for competitive advantage in enterprises is important. This paper presents a systematic approach that can be followed to formulate a knowledge management (KM) strategy. The management of knowledge should not be done in an ad hoc or isolated manner. It should be integrated into the other management activities in the enterprise and linked to the strate...

complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Abstract . Certain organizational characteristics as well as Knowledge Management (KM) initiative characteristics are needed in order to have successful KM. These characteristics may affect each step in the KM process differently. One of the most difficult and interesting steps in the process is moving from tacit knowledge to organi...

Knowledge management (KM) is now widely recognized to be important to the success or failure of business management. Seeking to better understand the determinants of the evolution of KM, this study focuses on two main problems: (1) whether firms change their KM processes over time to improve KM effectiveness as well as develop their KM practices, and (2) whether socio-technical support results ...

Knowledge Management (KM) is a process that focuses on knowledge-related activities to facilitate knowledge creation, capture, transformation and use, with the ultimate aim of leveraging organisations’ intellectual capital to achieve organisational objectives. Organisational culture and climate have been identified as major catalysts to knowledge creation and sharing, and hence are considered i...

Knowledge management (KM) has been studied extensively in recent years. Some consider knowledge to be the most strategically important resource for any company, but the fragmented, project-based and task-oriented nature of construction work makes it more difficult to implement KM in this sector. This paper presents a survey of perceptions of KM implementation in the Spanish construction sector ...

Enhancing organizational Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes (KIBP) for gaining competitive advantages is often performed through Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives. These KM initiatives aim at developing organizational KM infrastructure of KIBP, starting from knowledge audit that is a necessary first step in any KM initiative. Current knowledge audit methods address either technological-...

covery in databases and attempt to formulate the potential role of various AI subdisciplines in KM. Those attending represented a wide range of industries and areas relevant to AI research and application. The symposium began with keynote addresses on industrial requirements for KM by Vince Barabba of General Motors and Rob van der Spek of CIBIT. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to inte...

In the global economy, knowledge has become a key asset in organizations; thus, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a major issue that managers must deal with. However, implementing KM is becoming more complicated. Practitioners must assess complex and confusing situations, initiate KM, identify the causal relationships between problems, make appropriate decisions, and guarantee that the r...