While in theory what an organization knows is fundamental to its success, in practice only a few companies have seen significant business results from their knowledge management (KM) initiatives. Therefore, many knowledge managers are rethinking how and where knowledge really adds value. Connecting knowledge activities to core business processes is slowly coming to be recognized as a second, an...

Having its roots in fields like information systems research, business administration and organization theory, knowledge management (KM) research is still far from having a consensus on its theoretical presuppositions – a thesis supported by the varying notions of knowledge found in the field. Based on a framework for the conceptualization of KM, we propose a sociopragmatic-constructivistic app...

Two main approaches to knowledge management (KM) have been followed by early adopters of the principle: the process-centred approach, that mainly treats KM as a social communication process; and the product-centred approach, that focuses on knowledge artefacts, their creation, storage and reuse in computer-based corporate memories. This distinction is evident not only in KM implementations in c...

R&D Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the need for innovative approaches to responding more effectively to client’s demands and changes in the market place. Knowledge Management (KM) is central to this and is increasingly recognized as an integral part of the organization’s strategy to improve R&D performance. There is therefore a need for R&D performance based approach to KM. Ca...

introduction knowledge is continuously being produced in the process of formulating and implementing rural development projects. the capital is available without any cost, but it is neglected. knowledge has been distributed along the extensive network through the country. if knowledge management is recorded and exploited, it could lead to dramatic changes as a result of the butterfly approach. ...

The health care industry is increasingly becoming a knowledge-based community that depends critically on knowledge management (KM) activities to improve the quality of care. Utilizing knowledge management systems (KMS) to manage medical information and health care knowledge to support the full spectrum of knowledge needs in the nursing process has become an important issue for nursing professio...

While organisations recognise that Knowledge Management (KM) is essential for improving performance, many have difficulties in developing strategies for implementation. The nature of knowledge is of particular complexity in organisations such as those within the construction industry characterised by temporary ‘virtual’ organisations formed for the completion of projects. A significant proporti...

Using the idea of approach space due to Robert Lowen [Approach spaces. The missing link in the topology-uniformitymetric triad], we define the notion of fuzzy approach spaces as a natural generalization of fuzzy metric spaces due to Kramosil and Michalek [Kybernetika , 11, 1975, 336–344] and prove some properties of fuzzy approach spaces. Keywords— Approach spaces, Fuzzy approach spaces, Fuzzy ...