Gaining and sustaining competitive advantage through knowledge sharing and network-based knowledge processes is a process involving the tasks of formulating a strategic vision, formulating a knowledge vision, identifying relevant knowledge, designing the knowledge process, catering for knowledge protection, implementing the process, and using the system. The focus of this paper is twofold. Firs...

The rise of the knowledge-based economy has significantly transformed the economies of developed countries from managed economies into entrepreneurial economies, which deal with knowledge as both input and output. Consequently, knowledge has become a key asset for organizations and knowledge management is one of the driving forces of business success. One of the most important challenges faced ...

KM initiatives in organisations have often run into difficulties at the implementation level. Research into the causes of these problems has shifted attention to the human dimension of KM. Recently some researchers have focused on personal knowledge management skills and practices to emphasise this dimension. How are these three concepts ‘personal’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘management’ interrelated in ...

In order to investigate and consider the feasibility of the establishment of knowledge management at Payam nour universities of Golestan province elicited from reviewing the research literature, the researchers  endeavored to identify the factors affecting  the establishment of  knowledge management  and the knowledge management components, and then to consider the way of their influence as wel...

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...

This paper reviewed the relationships between the Knowledge Management (KM) activities and its perceived benefits in the knowledge based organizations. KM activities include: knowledge identification, knowledge acquisition, knowledge application, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation and knowledge preservation. And the perceived benefits of KM are fast customer responsiveness, operation excelle...

background and aim : proper and immediate management of traumatic dental injuries depends highly on dentists’ knowledge. the aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of dentistry students at universities of tehran about managing traumatic dental injuries. materials and methods : the participants of this cross-sectional study were senior year students at dental faculties of four universities ...

This paper presents a framework for knowledge management in software development. The dimensions of the framework are drawn from organization theory. Therefore, it allows for a systematic comparison of knowledge management activities in different companies. By applying established theories from various disciplines, two basic forms of knowledge management can be derived from this framework. The ...

In this paper, the author redesigns web collaboration system framework using component management model. Component management model gets the connection information between components and high-level development knowledge with Key, Content, and Configuration information. It can show the connection information between components with Key and Content information of each component and support the de...

Along which basic lines could an organization which plans to invest in knowledge management proceed? What general initiatives can be suggested for knowledge management? First, an array of knowledge management goals and strategies is presented taken from theoretical and empirical studies which are then related to each other in the light of what we call a strategic intervention into an organizati...