As organizations have increasingly invested in information technology (IT), they have looked for an IT workforce not just with technical skills but also with managerial ones. It has thus been paramount for the IT workforce to pursue a balance between two streams the technical and the managerial one. Accordingly, the IT professionals have had difficulties to deal with the increasing technical an...

ithin the knowledge society of the 21st century, industrialised countries perceive a tremendous shift towards global markets where knowledge has become one of the most important assets of modern organisations. This change strongly impacts the nature of work and of workforce itself. The most successful enterprises in this new “world” will be those who recognise the importance of knowledge as a r...

In the recent years, terms like knowledge society, intelligent, learning or knowledge based organizations are used more often. Related to these concepts, many studies underline the fact that organizations should act intelligently by learning and using their knowledge or by being just knowledgebased organizations. The majority of these studies are suffering from being too much philosophical in d...

There are three parts to this talk – related in rather tangential ways. First, I will give a recap of an argument developed in a couple of earlier talks – at IIiX in 2008 and at the SIGIR evaluation workshop in 2009. The gist of the argument is about thinking about IR as a science, and the consequences Appears in the Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on Contextual Information Access...

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