Acquisition, application and testing of knowledge by actors trying to fulfill knowledge intensive tasks is becoming increasingly important for organizations due to trends such as globalization, the emergence of virtual organizations and growing product complexity. An actor’s management of basic cognitive functions, however, is at stake because of this increase in the need to acquire, apply and ...

The common perception is that all types of work and work organizations appear to involve knowledge: knowledge intensive work, knowledge workers, knowledge products, customerrelated knowledge and knowledge intensive organizations. Therefore, as organizations increasingly organize their activities in the form of projects, effective ways of knowledge management are needed to deliver successful and...

The common perception is that all types of work and work organizations appear to involve knowledge: knowledge intensive work, knowledge workers, knowledge products, customerrelated knowledge and knowledge intensive organizations. Therefore, as organizations increasingly organize their activities in the form of projects, effective ways of knowledge management are needed to deliver successful and...

This study concerns knowledge sharing within knowledge-intensive hierarchical organizations. More specifically, this encompasses knowledge sharing between physicians, nurses, assistant nurses, almoners, therapists, physiotherapists, and laboratory personnel in the primary care. The study will be conducted at a general clinic in Sweden. The survey will investigate and describe how, and what type...

Organizations are increasingly engaging in implementing knowledge management systems to create, store, retrieve, and apply knowledge in achieving organizational goals and objectives. In that regard, the ability to identify knowledge assets is essential. Knowledge-intensive business processes rely heavily on appropriate utilization of knowledge and are also a source for new knowledge creation. A...

Developing effective computer systems supporting knowledge intensive work: Situated design in a large paper mill ......................................................................................................... 1 Proposal for CASES ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN MODERN ORGANIZATIONS ...................................................................................................

This contribution aims to provide a starting point for discussions on how to build knowledge infrastructures that contribute to organizational value chains. Knowledge is recognized as the most important ressource in todays knowledge intensive organizations and knowledge infrastructures provide a fundament for effective management of relevant knowledge within organizations. After motivating the ...

Knowledge is the focal asset of emerging knowledge intensive organizations. Several theories, practices and tools have been developed to address knowledge work problems. This paper reviews relevant literatures, converges concepts like knowledge, organisational and action learning, business processes under the light of learning in knowledge intensive organisations. It also describes how a tradit...

We presented at HICSS-34 a new methodology based on the semantics of contracts to model business and, beyond, to manage the knowledge assets of a firm. In this paper we present two cases in which we apply our methods. This brings some insights, in real situations, about some problems and issues on knowledge management which cannot be separated as we will show from human resources management.