Knowledge has become to be considered as valuable strategic assets that can provide proprietary competitive advantages. It is more important for companies to distinguish themselves through knowledge management strategies. Without a constant creation of knowledge, a business is condemned to poor performance. However, it is still unclear how these strategies affect knowledge creation. Knowledge m...

In the Knowledge Society, the enterprise increasingly develops its activities in a planetary space. The hierarchical Enterprise locked up on its local borders is transformed into an Extended Enterprise without borders, opened and adaptable. In this context, the actors are confronted with new situations that increase their initiatives and responsibilities, whatever their roles and their hierarch...

In order to gain sustainable competitive advantage in today’s knowledge economy, organizations are looking beyond routine transactional workflow processes to support knowledge-intensive processes. Traditional business process management systems are effective in providing coordination support, but are not geared towards providing relevant knowledge support as well. Also, knowledge management s...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

There has been an explosion of interest in Knowledge Management [KM] theory and practice. However, it is argued here that much of this work fails to consider the purpose for which knowledge is ‘being managed’. In this paper, purpose is considered in terms of encouraging innovation. Given that innovation is a complex, episodic process, it would appear unlikely that a single set of tools and meth...

Current electronic data repositories are growing quickly and contain big amount of data from commercial, scientific, and other domain areas. The capabilities for collecting and storing all kinds of data exceed the abilities to analyze, summarize, and extract knowledge from this data. Knowledge discovery systems (KDSs) use achievements from many technical areas, including databases, Data Mining ...

In this paper, we propose a fundamental idea of a new CAD architecture to facilitate design knowledge management. This architecture is useful to develop an advanced design support system that encourages a designer to externalize his/her knowledge during a design process and facilitates sharing and reuse of such externalized design knowledge in later stages. We also describe an implementation of...

The relation between knowledge and action is discussed. It is shown that knowledge comprises two aspects, a dynamic one and an expectative one. The former refers to control of individual action, while the latter refers to expectation of success of possible action. Both views ground on success of action as point of reference. In this respect propositional knowledge does not differ from practical...

Chemical process industry is a high risk industry which can result in catastrophic casualties, loss of properties, and environment damage. Process safety should always come first in the chemical process industry. Researchers have made great efforts to make the chemical process industry safer for people and the environment. Effective process safety management is the guarantee for process safety....