knowledge management is a process that has been recently generated as an activity which is very important in the dynamic environment, and in the competitive scene. we believe that km is a process which its organizational knowledge is created from the individual knowledge of the members of the organization. the relevant studies have indicated that organizing based on work teams could be consider...

Knowledge management (KM) is a core competency that determines the success of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in this knowledge-based economy. Instead of competing on the basis of physical and financial capital, the success of SMEs is influenced by the knowledge, experience and skills of the owners and its employees. Unfortunately, many SMEs are still struggling with KM implementation...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in hamedan's jihad- agriculture applied-scientific higher education center (hjaas). denison's organizational culture model and the building blocks of knowledge management model were used for finding this relationship. a descriptive correlative methodology was used...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...

the process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. this article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

This paper discusses the case of how Clinical Pathways (CPs) are defined, used and maintained in two hospital settings. We combine a literature review and observational study to illustrate the composite nature of CPs and the different roles they can play in different phases of their life-cycle, with respect to the theme of bridging medical knowledge with the related practices by which physician...

In this paper, we adopt Bayesian networks for discovering temporal-state transition patterns in the Hemodialysis process. Bayesian network is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables, and easily incorporatesnew instances to maintain rules up to date. We demonstrate the proposed method in representing the causal relationships between medical treatments and trans...

The computerization of paper-based Clinical Pathways (CP) can allow them to be operationalized as a decision-support and care planning tool at the point-of-care. We applied a knowledge management approach to computerize the prostate cancer CP for three different locations. We present a new prostate cancer CP ontology that features the novel merging of multiple CP based on the similarities of th...