Knowledge Creation – Presumption Versus Actual Practice

Knowledge creation in foresight a practice - and systems - oriented view

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Knowledge Map Creation and Maintenance for Virtual Communities of Practice

This paper proposes knowledge map creation and maintenance approaches by utilizing information retrieval and data mining techniques to facilitate knowledge management in virtual communities of practice. Besides evaluating their performance using synthesized data, the generated knowledge maps for documents collected from the teachers’ cyber community, SCTNet, and the master thesis repository at ...

Actual Truth, Possible Knowledge

HIV disclosure to surrogate decision makers: privacy versus presumption

Although few would disagree with the latter precept, the ethical and legal permissibility of the former is less obvious [2]. Dispensing with patient confidentiality under the rubric of ‘beneficence’ does not guarantee preferable end-of-life outcomes. Even if the emotional impact of this disclosure has minimal influence on surrogates’ decision making abilities, they are, ceteris paribus, left no...

Knowledge Creation

Knowledge management (KM) is a newly emerging approach aimed at addressing today’s business challenges to increase efficiency and efficacy of core business processes, while simultaneously incorporating continuous innovation. The need for knowledge management is based on a paradigm shift in the business environment where knowledge is now considered to be central to organizational performance and...