Neural projection models are applied in this study to the analysis of Human Resources (HR) from a Knowledge Management (KM) standpoint. More precisely, data projections are combined with the glyph metaphor to analyse KM data and to gain deeper insight into patterns of knowledge retention. Following a preliminary study, the retention of specialized employees in hi-tech companies is investigated,...

IntroductIon Knowledge management has been proposed as a fundamental strategic process and the only sustainable competitive advantage for firms (Grant, 1996; Davenport, 1998). A key to understanding the success and failure of knowledge management efforts within organizations is the ability to identify the relevant knowledge to manage and to extract value out of this knowledge. In the last decad...

Knowledge Management is an emerging term currently used in organisations which recognise the need to make more effective use of their human and IT resources. The relationship, between the strategic direction of a business and its strategic approach to knowledge management, assumes that there exists collective organisational knowledge that can be managed to encourage the realisation of business ...

Relation of knowledge resources to competitive strategy is an emergent discipline in business environment that led to shape and development new concepts in this area such as knowledge strategy. In This paper, previous studies on knowledge strategy and its dimensions are reviewed. and then a framework for linking knowledge resources to competitive strategy, is proposed.

To increase the chances that knowledge management will provide strategic advantage, it should be tied to competitive strategy. Most KM projects, if considering strategic impact at all, start from the outcome and work backward to strategic impact. This paper suggests that one should start with strategy, identify strategic points of knowledge leverage, and use that to drive KM initiatives. It pro...

The Department of the Navy is a recognized leader in the implementation of knowledge management. The DON's multifaceted change strategy is discussed in terms of twelve elements: creating a shared vision; building the business case; demonstrating leadership commitment; facilitating a common understanding; setting limits; sharing new ideas, words, and behaviors; identifying the strategic approach...

The concept of knowledge management (KM) as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the strategic management literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by KM capability is not well-explained. To fill this gap, this paper develops the concept of KM as an organizational capability and empirically examines the association between KM capabilities ...

This paper presents a research in progress on the use of knowledge engineering and knowledge management techniques for the development of a strategic approach for the transfer of professional know-how. This transfer is based on the design of devices for sharing and learning clearly identified knowledge in the oil industry domains. This work is based on a pilot study which was carried out in the...

Objective Today competitive condition and quick changes adds to the importance of the need to analyze the companies’ performance in order to reach to higher positions as compared to the opponents’ performance. The present study mainly aims to investigate the role of business strategic tendency in organizational performance considering the intervening role of knowledge management. The researche...

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...