Knowledge Service-oriented Business Models by Convergent Integration of Autonomous and Pervasive Computing Technologies

A knowledge service-oriented business has not been highly progressed because most of potential users do not expect much on it by chronic feeling of disappointment about conventional strategy of knowledge management. Since the approaches to manage and utilize knowledge within an organization were identically split into one of knowledge acquisition and distribution, few practical ways providing knowledge simultaneously with acquiring have been proposed. To enhance maximum utilization of knowledge in our ordinary life with guaranteeing its quality and reliability, a business based on the knowledge service must be underpinned by the rationality in knowledge acquisition regardless to types of knowledge, but also the autonomy in knowledge processing preserving accuracy and convenience in use. This paper aims to introduce several types of business models caused by the knowledge service. Also specific component technologies enabling the knowledge service revealed in each business model are illustrated so that practitioners or entrepreneurs who intend to prepare a new business can consult.