Both Knowledge Management and Appreciative Inquiry attempt to amplify human and organizational capacities by leveraging the best of each. Whereas knowledge management systems aim to help identifying the substantive organizational knowledge in its broadest sense and leveraging it to benefit the organization and its stakeholders, the appreciative inquiry methodology is also about the search for t...

In this paper we propose a novel approach for the systematic assessment and analysis of IT related risks in organisations and projects. The approach is model-driven using an enterprise architecture as the basis for the security management process. Using an enterprise architecture it is possible to provide an integrated description of an organisation’s structure, processes and its underlying IT ...

The critical infrastructures have been penetrated by information systems. The very basis that we depend on has become technologically entangled. New types of vulnerabilities that evade current risk analysis methods have emerged. Protocol dependency is one of the key culprits. This work focuses on collaborative management of protocol related knowledge, which is required in order to understand an...

conclusions this study revealed the main components of knowledge storage. an enhanced preservation of explicit knowledge is recommended in the nursing educational system so that in the future, students and educators can easily access the same knowledge from storage sources and not from individuals who might be carrying only a single experience of the subject. results data analysis showed that n...

Over the past few years many companies have begun emphasizing and implementing processes to capture and share knowledge within their organizations [Davenport & Prusak, 1997; Edvinsson & Malone, 1997; Stewart, 1997]. Corporate infrastructures are being developed to facilitate knowledge creation and reuse, and a variety of software tools are currently available to support the knowledge management...

Organizational culture has a considerable impact on investment and acceptance of a new technology system such as knowledge management and especially it can be led to success or failure of knowledge management programs in organization. According to scientific evidences, human characteristics are effective on knowledge management and the process of knowledge management by people contains their pe...

Knowledge management is a relatively young discipline, which is attracting a lot of attention, particularly in the light of a globalised marketplace. Organisations interact and exchange information across divisions, departments, firms and even industries. Extensible markup language or XML is a technology, which can help facilitate or improve this exchange of information across boundaries. It en...