background. acquiring and recalling knowledge can be considered as the starting point of learning; so increasing the acquisition of knowledge and information recall is one the most important goals of education. objective. to determine the students’ information recall in the basic courses of histology, immunology, physiology, biochemistry, head and neck anatomy, and microbiology in dentistry sch...

This research addressed the need for in-depth investigation of what actually happens in the practice of risk management in software package implementation projects. There is strong ‘official’ sanction in the IT literature for the use of formal risk management processes for IT projects but there is a confused picture of their application in practice. While many potential risk factors for IT proj...

Knowledge is considered to be “the information needed to make business decisions”1, and so knowledge management is the “essential ingredient of success” for 95 per cent of CEOs [Manchester 1999]. A company’s value depends increasingly on “intangible assets” which exist in the minds of employees, in databases, in files and in a myriad documents. Knowledge management technologies capture this int...

Knowledge is considered to be “the information needed to make business decisions”, and so knowledge management is the “essential ingredient of success” for 95 per cent of CEOs [Manchester 1999]. A company’s value depends increasingly on “intangible assets” which exist in the minds of employees, in databases, in files and in a myriad documents. Knowledge management technologies capture this inta...

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...