elements of agricultural knowledge and information management(research, extension, farmers, ngo and …) to near together in appropriate process were used in farmer field school approach. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of farmer field school (ffs) approach on agricultural knowledge and information management. the research population consisted of 420 farmers who participated...

Knowledge management (KM) and process orientation (PO) constitute two important parts of developing an organisation, being the knowledge business part and the core process part. In order to stay competitive and to increase the customer value of their products, organisations must maintain close links between these two parts. This can be made by establishing a feedback loop, and this loop must be...

A number of assumptions in the past have been made about how business process improvement and re-engineering, and organisational learning should take place in organisations. Although a number of these assumptions have been framed on theoretical models, few have been based on the empirical analysis of the nature of actual business processes. This paper tries to fill this gap with an analysis of ...

Based upon an Innovation Knowledge Life Cycle (IKLC) and the six phases of the Innovation Process the project INNOVANET studies the processes applied in innovation and the knowledge management technologies in use for innovation support in European industry and science. This paper presents the IKLC and the process model together including the results of a study based on qualitative interviews co...

Process-oriented Knowledge Management aims to provide adequate information for employees, especially in weakly structured and information-intensive business processes. Beside a technical software solution, which uses a pre-structured, context-aware and collaborative information space that combines processes, domain specific semantic structures and document parts, this requires a methodology to ...

We adopt a systems perspective to explore the challenges that organizations face in harnessing knowledge. Such a perspective draws attention to mutually causal processes that have the potential to generate both vicious and virtuous circles. Based on a longitudinal study at Infosys TechnoV. Sambamurthy and Mani Subramani were the accepting senior editors for this paper. logies, we conclude that ...

The aim of this study is to design the excellence in Mobarakeh Steel Company's strategic knowledge management. To achieve this goal, the researcher has used qualitative and quantitative methods. Therefore, the research method is the mixed one. This study, based on the nature of the data and data collection procedure, is a descriptive, exploratory research. It follows and applies development obj...

Purpose – To examine the various discourses on ‘‘knowledge’’ and to understand what knowledge means – is it a process of leveraging resources, is it a resource, or is it both – a process and a resource? Further, the purpose of the paper is to propose a framework for knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – The literature on ‘‘knowledge’’ is reviewed and ‘‘knowledge’’ is analyzed alon...

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...