Knowledge management is seen as a solution to the knowledge problems faced by many knowledgeintensive organizations. This paper proposes the application of knowledge management in the university environment, highlighting on the bottom-up implementation approach which starts at the faculty level with a faculty knowledge management system and later upon successful endeavor may proceed to the univ...

This paper proposes a hybrid approach for managing knowledge within companies based on communication between people. In addition to traditional Knowledge Management Systems our concept supports employees not only in finding information but also in establishing contact between the person requesting information and a person or community that can help solve the problem. This hybrid approach consis...

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are predominant in both theory and practice. However, are the same systems discussed in theory actualised in practice? By comparing and contrasting KMS in theory and practice, this paper demonstrates that they are indeed dissimilar. In theory, KMS have both subjective and objective components. In practice, only the objective component of KMS appears to be actu...

Knowledge management systems are introduced into companies as ICT-platforms for distributing and evolving knowledge. They are also related to the support of learning. In this context, learning takes place by actively dealing with the technical system and its content. From this perspective, the support of knowledge exchange and the establishing of knowledge structures get more relevant and becom...

This article discusses system use as a measure of knowledge management success. It is proposed that for knowledge management systems (KMS) it is not the amount of use that is important, but rather the quality of that use and the intention to use the KMS when appropriate. Evidence is provided to support this proposition and a knowledge management system success model incorporating this propositi...

Knowledge transfer involves transferring knowledge from its native problem context to a different context, and adapting the knowledge according to the new conditions. It is an important source of organizational capability and a primary activity of knowledge management. The change of condition often creates major challenges to knowledge transfer. We explore this problem from the individual persp...

Knowledge management (KM) is a critical practice by which a firm’s intellectual capital is created, stored and shared. This has lead to a rich research agenda within which knowledge management systems (KMS) have been a key focus. Our research reveals that an important element of KM practice—knowledge appraisal—is considered in only a fragmentary and incomplete way in research. Knowledge apprais...

The rapidly growing use of technology in education is changing the way in which knowledge is produced, stored and distributed. Online education has already been accepted as the way of the future; knowledge may be distributed across both time and space. Knowledge Management (KM) techniques can be used to capture, organise and deliver this knowledge and management systems can be used to quickly i...

Knowledge management systems (KMSs) have been criticized as having a North American bias. The cultural dimension of KMSs, particularly the relationship of learning and culture in KM projects, are rarely discussed. This paper addresses these concerns in a review of the conceptual foundations for KM and by examining implementations of KM projects. Despite the evolutionary changes in how KM is vie...

Knowledge management is a platform that adjust to the desire of enterprises' knowledge management .The thesis focused on the matter of enterprises' knowledge network management system, built the internal knowledge network system and external knowledge network system respectively, and described features and content of different models, also discussed how to take full advantage of knowledge netwo...