The knowledge management spectrum – understanding the KM landscape

Abstract

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Knowledge Management Practice Assessment and the Relationship Between Knowledge Management Practices and Organizational Strategy Development: Empirical Evidence From Turkey

“…For these reasons, KM as an emerging discipline became crucial for the organizations that seek to improve their efficiency and competitive abilities. It is clear that effective implementation of a sound organizational knowledge management (OKM) strategy is considered mandatory for the organizations in the knowledge economy (Binney, 2001). For knowledge to be managed more effectively and efficiently, assessment of the critical attributes of OKM and evaluation of KM success factors have to be clarified thoroughly.…”

A Knowledge Management System Embedded in the New Semantic Technologies

“…In reality, it is a common practice for organizations to use one or more of the following (technical) systems and concepts to support their KM efforts (Binney, 2001;Wenger, 2001;Mazilescu, 2009b): Knowledge Maps, Taxonomies, Enterprise search engine, e-collaboration tools, Information repositories, Expert Systems, Data Mining / Knowledge Discovery systems, Case-based Reasoning / Question-Answering tools (for Helpdesk and/or Contact Centers), E-Learning and/or Learning Management Systems (LMS), Enterprise Information Portal, Intellectual Capital (IC) measurement tools. Expert systems are examples of relevant knowledge-based methodologies (as Knowledge Capture Systems) that have much to contribute to KMSs, because they manipulate knowledge in order to implement various tasks (Tsui, 2002;Wang & Lin, 2007;Schwartz, 2006;Omar, 2008).…”

A state-of-art review on basic issues on knowledge management

“…Investing in developing the knowledge and capabilities of a company's workforce is becoming a measure of the value of an organization because this investment is now seen as increasing the knowledge content and capability of an organization. At the same time, such an investment also helps to attract the best knowledge workers in a highly competitive knowledge worker market (Binney, 2001). According to Davenport et al (1998) such knowledge management projects attempts to do something useful with knowledge to accomplish organizational objectives through the structuring of people, technology and knowledge content.…”

“…Soliman and Spooner, (2000) 28. McElroy, (2000) Creation Table 5 shows some of the applications proposed by the researchers (Binney, 2001;Bond, 2003). Table 6 shows some of the applications proposed by the researchers.…”