Undertaking to implement a Knowledge Management approach is inherently difficult and risky for organizations. This paper describes and discusses an implementation of a Knowledge Management system that took place in a Swedish healthcare organization. The paper takes as its starting point a set of suggested best practices for implementing a Knowledge Management approach. For each of the best prac...

The paper investigates the role of knowledge management in enabling project success, innovation, completion times, operational efficiency and the generation of new knowledge in development projects. Four projects in Uganda, Nigeria, and Cote d‘Ivoire were used as case studies. The objective was to explore the nature of knowledge management practices in these projects in order to see how they co...

Knowledge management is one of the significant fields in the current organization in order to improve the performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management practices and academic performance in public institution of higher learning. A questionnaire was used as the main instrument for the data collection. A total of 100 respondents answered the qu...

Diffusing knowledge management practices within an organization encourages and facilitates reuse of the institution's knowledge commodity. Following knowledge management practices, the Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL) has created a Digital Library that uses a holistic approach for integration of information and skills to best represent both explicit and tacit knowledge inherent in libraries. EBL...

This paper describes an agent-based system designed to guide, monitor, and stimulate managers towards the understanding of knowledge management concepts and the adoption of knowledge management practices in organizational contexts. In particular, we focus on the mechanisms needed to support the adoption of knowledge sharing processes, which are vital to knowledge management practices and often ...

This paper reviews the current knowledge management (KM) practices to examine the attention (or lack thereof) paid to the individual in managing knowledge in organisations. It identifies and reviews four key practices of KM-i.e., information technology, organisational culture and structure, communities of practice, and human resource practices-to examine how knowledge is interpreted, processed ...