This paper presents a user interface to the User-Centred Knowledge Model (t-UCK). T-UCK is a knowledge modelling tool for designing knowledge-intensive systems. The model centres round the various users, i.e., both the design users and the end users, and facilitates the use of a conceptual model for handling different types of knowledge, the reasoning strategy and other functionality. For the d...

IT revolution and the transformation of industrial society to knowledge society globalization marked the most significant, influential and most comprehensive business trends and the emergence of the modern era. The intensive development of the Internet as a global business infrastructure has led to substantial changes in business strategy, but little attention has been devoted to developing new...

Copyright © 2000, Idea Group Publishing. New organizational approaches like Virtual Organizations have the potential to provide the flexibility and to reduce the complexity and risk of management necessary to survive in the actual economic environment. A crucial factor for gaining and sustaining competitive advantages in the current economic environment is knowledge. The management of knowledge...

Although knowledge has emerged as the strategic resource of the firm in the increasingly turbulent and dynamic environment, it is underestimated how knowledge management (KM) contributes to sustained competitive advantage of the firm over time. Drawing upon a coevolutionary view of alignment, this study examines a strategic KM coevolutionary mechanism in which KM strategy, processes, and infras...

Is concerned with human value management, examines the relationships between organizations' competitiveness, innovation advancements, and knowledge management and presents a set of considerations regarding how these relationships affect strategic management and the formulation of competitive strategies. By considering how knowledge development is related with personal characteristics and person...

The strategic management of intellectual capital involves rethinking how the companies creates value from a knowledge-centric perspective and redesigning and orchestrating the role of staff knowledge in the firm’s strategy. This paper presents the author’s software system for facilitating decision making at a strategic level in terms of the profitability of investment in staff knowledge. This s...

Although the information systems (IS) literature often suggests that there is a need to align IS strategy with business strategy, the benefits of IS strategic alignment are difficult to determine. This paper describes a configurational model of IS strategic alignment that evaluates not only the internal consistency between IS strategy and business strategy but also contingency approaches to man...

IntroductIon New public management and the more recent concept of new public governance have become the dominant management doctrines in the public sector. Public organizations have become increasingly network-like units with various governance relations with actors from the public, business, and voluntary sectors. Their organization is based more on networks than on traditional hierarchies, ac...

introduction: human skills, knowledge and efficiency are important factors in the success of organizations and community health centers which have a critical role in total quality management (tqm) as a management system. knowledge is necessary as a source for the organizations survival. on the other hand, in order for implementation of knowledge management, there is a need for a relatively long...

Strategic business nets are increasingly important in producing economic value in the global arena. This paper examines the influence of national culture on knowledge sharing in different types of intercultural business nets. Knowledge sharing is essential for the functioning of any business network as it influences the interaction between the actors and the outcomes they can achieve. Cultural ...