Knowledge Management Organizational and Technological Dimensions
This book presents a unique blend of articles which combines both conceptual and practical concerns related to devising and implementing sustainable Knowledge Management systems and solutions in contemporary global organizations. The book's contributors a
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Joseph Davis Eswaran Subrahmanian Art Westerberg (Editors)
Knowledge Management Organizational and Technological Dimensions Selected Papers from the Carnegie Bosch Institute Workshop on "Knowledge Management and the Global Firm: Organizational and Technological Dimensions" held in Sydney, Australia
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Professor Joseph Davis School of Information Technologies The University of Sydney F09 Madsen Building Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia [email protected]
Professor Eswaran Subrahmanian Professor Art Westerberg Institute for Complex Engineered Systems Carnegie Mellon University 1201 Hamburg Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA [email protected] a. westerberg @ cmu.edu
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Preface The importance and value of tracking and sharing the dispersed knowledge resources of contemporary organizations have received widespread recognition in recent years. It is widely believed that with the transition from the industrial to information-based economies, organizational knowledge has emerged as the single most critical resource at both macro- and microlevels. A major challenge for most organizations during this transition and beyond is to learn to deal with the intricacies of discovering knowledge from the vast amounts of data being generated, identifying pockets of important knowledge in various forms, to devise strategies and techniques to formalize parts that lend themselves to codification, and to nurture technical and other solutions with which useful knowledge can be shared among relevant participants. This has the potential to produce greater knowledge utilization leading to multiplier effects in organizational performance. This calls for an approach in which both the organizational and technological dimensions of the challenge are better understood and effectively integr
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