Knowledge management (KM) has evolved from different disciplines and can be observed from various perspectives. The most important KM perspectives are personal communication and information technology (IT). Most IT companies have renamed their groupware and business intelligence products to fit the KM concept and to further develop them as knowledge management systems (KMS). In fact, they devel...

We report novel compound heterozygous mutations of the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-2-epimerase and N-acetylmannosamine kinase (GNE) gene, c.302G>A (p.R101H) and c.617-4A>G, in a Japanese family with distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles (DMRV) presenting with slow progression. The three patients could stand and walk even 36, 34, and 39 years after onset, respectively, although affected individuals b...

REQUIRED) Information Systems (IS) have often been the mechanism by which Knowledge Transfer (KT) has been accomplished within organizations. However, in the case of Business Intelligence (BI) it is also often the source or the knowledge required to be transferred. While the IS profession has effectively studied explicit knowledge, the conversion of tacit to explicit knowledge (Champika et al. ...

Volume 44, no. 4 Pediatric and Young Adult Patients with Blau Syndrome Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors Provide Longterm Clinical Benefits in TAKEI AKAIKE, TOMOKO TAKEZAKI, HIROYUKI IMANAKA, YOSHIFUMI KAWANO and SYUJI YAMATOU, YUICHI YAMASAKI, YUKIKO NONAKA, YASUHITO NEROME, HARUMI TOMOKAZU NAGAKURA, HIROYUKI WAKIGUCHI, TOMOHIRO KUBOTA, TSUYOSHI http://www.jrheum.org/content/44/4/536.1 J Rheuma...

While the potential influence of national culture on the efficiency of knowledge management interventions has been widely accepted there is a little discussion concerning the underlying question – are the theories and models of knowledge related processes we use are influenced by culture? SECI model proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi is very influential in knowledge management community, and its a...

The topic of knowledge creation (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) will be analysed from a philosophical perspective. To begin with, the key motivations behind the discourse of knowledge creation and management are briefly discussed. The contemporary distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge is then explored. Following this, the work of Lyotard on knowledge in a (post)modern economy will be sum...

Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade (Nonaka 1994). However, the mechanism through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance remains unclear. This paper examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and firm performance. Our survey study of 134 firms indicates that two forms o...

The major problem in understanding quality concepts has been explained by the characteristic that people see it quite differently from different perspectives. In the present paper we borrow this explanation for our starting point and broaden the consideration of software quality from the implementation-oriented in the individual and organizationoriented directions. Our main hypothesis is that t...