Knowledge acquisition is recognized as a critical knowledge management process for developing knowledge management systems. For accounting and legal industries, to transform tacit knowledge from the professional experts to explicit knowledge could be problematic as human judgment could vary substantially among the experts. In addition, maintenance of the systems could require regular interactio...

The knowledge grid is an intelligent interconnection environment that enables people to effectively manage knowledge resources. To enhance the acquirement and sharing of critical knowledge in knowledge grid, this paper proposes a new knowledge model -memory grid. Memory grid incorporates memory theory of psychology into knowledge grid to deliver plenty of context information. Based on the intel...

Nowadays, lots of knowledge is lost or hidden because it is in people’s heads and not conserved in digital archives. Especially for enterprises, this means a pecuniary advantage is lost every day. In this paper, we propose a Semantic Knowledge Management System that allows us to save knowledge in a semantic way and motivates employees to conserve their knowledge. To motivate people we intend to...

This paper aims to use a priority framework based on Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of KM. To identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of ...

the present paper deals with the role of played by knowledge management in organizations and its impact on their improved operations, including libraries. the km mission within an organization is to transform the tacit knowledge of employees into an important source for decision making as well as proactive documentation of explicit knowledge for achieving organizational goals. the closer man’s ...

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 (KM) tools have become an established part of Enterprise Information Systems in the recent years. While traditional KM initiatives typically address knowledge exchange within project teams, communities of practice, within a whole enterprise, or even within the extended enterprise (customer knowledge management, KM in the supply chain, . . . ), the relatively new area of Per...

Because the lifetime employment system is disappearing in Japan, “knowledge transfer” is becoming a more significant issue in industry. Knowledge-based systems will support the knowledge transference among workers via knowledge base. A job support system and an employee training system are the core of knowledge transfer. It is important to build a knowledge base that can be reused. Ontology mak...