The value creation cycle: moving towards a framework for knowledge management implementation

Researchers have emphasized on the need for advances in knowledge management (KM) research to better understand how organizations accrue benefits from their knowledge resources. Thus, an integrated approach, rooted in the theoretical streams of knowledge-based view, KM and institutional theory, is proposed to explain how a successful KM program creates value. The approach discusses four organizational capabilities that firms need to develop simultaneously to create KM-enabled value, and identifies possible organizational actions to develop these capabilities. Various feedback and feed-forward processes, originating inside as well as outside the firm, integrate these capabilities into a KM-enabled value creation cycle (VCC). Key propositions were developed, and were examined with the help of three case studies.     

Stimulating situated learning within projects: personalizing the flow of knowledge

This paper provides an empirical insight into the social complexities of practically supporting the knowledge creation processes within a project setting. It helps address a gap in knowledge in the project management, organizational learning and knowledge management literatures, concerning the dynamics of situated learning. Drawing on the findings of a participative action research case study investigation of project-based learning, this paper argues that predominantly adopting a ‘personalization approach’ to manage knowledge flows within a project setting most significantly stimulates situated learning activity. This approach also underpins project participants’ communal and critical reflection on their knowledge management practices and on other sociological elements within their environments that affect their situated learning activities. Undertaking those learning actions only further energizes project participants’ learning activity and progressively helps develop their skills in ‘learning how to learn’.     

知识共享的过程和背景模型研究

针对知识共享的基本过程,利用概率空间和条件概率原理,建立相应的数学模型,以期解决知识共享过程的定量描述问题;针对知识共享的背景,选择框架表示方法,提出提供者背景 、接受者背景、关系背景、知识背景和环境背景“槽”及相应的“侧面”来描述知识共享背景模型的一般参考框架。依此建立知识共享的条件框架,为系统分析实现知识共享的因素,认识知识共享的规律,提供理论和方法上的支持。     

信息资源集成与知识集成比较研究

比较分析信息资源集成和知识集成的动因(why)、信息资源集成和知识集成的内涵及特征(what)、信息资源集成和知识集成机制(how),揭示信息资源集成与知识集成的差异和内在联系并得出研究结论:信息资源集成与知识集成相辅相成、相互促进,知识集成是信息资源集成的发展方向。     

Nonaka meets Giddens: A critique

Nonaka's recent incorporation of Giddens into the knowledge movement is superficial and problematic. The incorporation accepts uncritically Giddens's controversial conceptions of structure and agency, avoids his concerns of power and domination, exaggerates his elaboration on contradictions, and shares with him the search for an omelette-like theoretical totalising. Using Giddens as an illustrative vehicle, this paper analyses the pattern of Nonaka’s recent borrowing of others’ work and the consequent tensions built up in his simplistic model of the knowledge creating company.     

Using decision support systems to facilitate the social process of knowledge management

The social processes involved in engaging small groups of 3–15 managers in their sharing, organising, acquiring, creating and using knowledge can be supported with software and facilitator assistance. This paper introduces three such systems that we have used as facilitators to support groups of managers in their social process of decision-making by managing knowledge during face-to-face meetings. The systems include Compendium, Group Explorer (with Decision Explorer) and V*I*S*A. We review these systems for group knowledge management where the aim is for better decision-making, and discuss the principles of deploying each in a group meeting.     

Applying the KnowCis methodology to a Greek municipality: a case study

The concept of the Knowledge City is a subfield of the Knowledge-Based Development which, during the last years, has attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners. Various cities around the world have also undertaken considerable efforts and initiatives so as to be developed or to enhance their status as a Knowledge City. However, their approaches were rather ad-hoc and spontaneous and were not based on a pre-defined methodology. The research community has only recently begun to concentrate on the direction to substantiate the fundamental principles of Knowledge Cities and to define unified methodologies for their design, development and operation. Under this prism, the authors have recently proposed such a methodology, called KnowCis. The application of this methodology is currently in progress, on a Greek municipality. The municipality incorporates some special characteristics and features that render it a very advantageous case for this pilot application. This paper refers to the characteristics of the municipality and to the application of the KnowCis methodology, presents the progress of the effort and the preliminary results until now and provides useful insights on the forthcoming actions and plans of the city's administration. The outcomes, results and lessons-learnt of this pilot application will permit to fine-tune the KnowCis methodology.     

Knowledge creation through boundary-spanning

This paper contributes to our understanding of the process of knowledge creation in organisations. Based on a process model, the paper develops propositions relating to factors facilitating knowledge creation in cross-functional work teams. These propositions relate to the constructs of cognitive diversity, transactional memory, trans-specialist knowledge and their contribution to new knowledge development through knowledge boundary spanning.     

International research orientation of Swiss universities: self-regulated or politically imposed?

International openness is essential to science in small modern countries. The modernization of Swiss science and economy in the nineteenth century was promoted largely by foreigners: newly founded Swiss universities were staffed to a large extent by foreign professors, but students also came from abroad. Up to the middle of this century, the development of Swiss universities was marked by distinct successive phases of inviting in or shutting out international influence, depending mainly on changes in the political context. The international landscape of knowledge and science since the 1950s has undergone dynamic change. University structures were installed as a reaction to this dynamism. Patterns of international research orientation emerging in different universities and in the disciplinaryfields of business administration, chemistry and history are discussedin a comparative perspective.     

分数维变换域滤波在图像恢复中的应用

傅立叶变换是对信号进行分析的重要数学工具之一．广义上的傅立叶变换,即分数维变换已成为时变信号分析的强有力工具．对原始信号估计的判据常采用均方误差．时间为Ｏ（ＮｌｏｇＮ）的Ｗｉｅｎｅｒ滤波可完成对具有时不变退化模型的信号估计,若退化模型为时变或非平稳的,则需Ｏ（Ｎ ２）的估计时间．这里用在分数维变换域中进行滤波来实现图像恢复,估计时间亦为Ｏ（ＮｌｏｇＮ）,且均方误差比在普通傅立叶变换域中的滤波小．实验中,对具有不同信噪比的时变退化模型（ ｃｈｉｒｐ函数污染）的图像进行恢复,结果显示此方法是有效的,且恢复效果随信噪比的提高而改善．