The paper was designed to examine the contributions of knowledge management practices to knowledge-based development in Malaysia. Several salient drivers from knowledge management practices to be successful in crafting quality strategy among private organizations in Malaysia had been identified. The proactive use of knowledge management practices facilitates the strategy of these private organi...

This paper aims to use a priority framework based on Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of KM. To identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of ...

the present paper deals with the role of played by knowledge management in organizations and its impact on their improved operations, including libraries. the km mission within an organization is to transform the tacit knowledge of employees into an important source for decision making as well as proactive documentation of explicit knowledge for achieving organizational goals. the closer man’s ...

Collaborative Product Development (CPD) process is characterized by autonomous task control, dynamic task sequence, and frequent team collaboration, which endow the process with high flexibility and uncertainty. In the CPD process, designers are the one of the important elements with prominent characteristics of autonomy, collaboration and initiative, the process is knowledge-based simultaneous...

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...

it is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence of environmental projects in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of knowledge workers is always low. based on knowledge workers’ characteristics, in this paper, we seek to identify knowledge workers factors influencing on the environmental projects risk management success (eprm), then knowledge s...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The evolution of e-Government services moves quickly. There is a limited time for adaptation to the new environment in terms of legislation, society, and economy. Maintaining reliable services and a secure IT environment is even more difficult with perpetual changes like mergers and acquisitions, supply chain activity, staff turnover, and regulatory variation. The nature of th...

This paper formulates a model in which a …rm simultaneously chooses its organizational structure and product position. The …rm’s production is knowledge-intensive, requiring employees to solve problems. A vertical hierarchy in which workers refer unsolved problems to managers facilitates the acquisition and leveraging of managers’superior knowledge. I show that a larger span of control is compl...