BACKGROUND Despite considerable attention currently being given to facilitating the use of research results in public health practice, several concerns remain, resulting in the so-called know-do gap. This article aims to identify the key tensions causing the know-do gap from a broad perspective by using a systemic approach and considering the public health sector as an innovation system. METH...

We discuss the "know-do gap," present a definition of knowledge translation, and discuss its relative importance in bridging the know-do gap. Some of the underlying causes of the know-do gap are listed, along with ongoing efforts to address them. Knowledge translation is considered a cross-cutting, nonlinear process that involves not only recent research findings but also knowledge that is crea...

Establishing electronically accessible repositories of people’s capabilities, experiences, and key knowledge areas is key in setting up Enterprise Knowledge Management. A skills repository can be used for e.g. finding people, staffing, skills gap analysis, and professional development. The ontology based skills management system developed at Swiss Life uses RDF schema for storing ontologies. It...

This study proposed a KM-oriented BPR model to assist managers to implement the knowledge management in the construction firms. Two philosophies, namely the (1) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the (2) Knowledge Management (KM), were combined in the addressed KM-oriented BPR model to ensure the KM operations can be merged with the business processes. That is, by using the proposed model...