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  • Strategic Importance of Knowledge Management

    Strategic Importance of Knowledge Management

    Abstract Today the world has more and more of free flow of information leading to transfer of knowledge from a person or an organization to others. Whereas this invariably leads to faster development, it also impacts the competitive advantage held by the innovators of processes or technology. It has therefore become strategically important for one and all in business to understand the knowledge, processes and controls to effectively manage the system of sharing and transferring

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    Essay Length: 641 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • Knowledge Management

    Knowledge Management

    Knowledge ManagementKnowledge management is the set of practices aimed at discovering and harnessing an organization’s intellectual resources. It’s about finding, unlocking, sharing, and altogether capitalizing on the most precious resources of an organization: people’s expertise, skills, wisdom, and relationships. Knowledge managers find these human assets, help people collaborate and learn, help people generate new ideas, and harness those ideas into successful innovations” (Bateman, 2004, p.8-9). One of the most important factors of change

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    Essay Length: 2,714 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Notes from Knowledge Management Expert

    Notes from Knowledge Management Expert

    Case Reference: Notes from Knowledge Management Expert. Following are the notes taken from an Internal Memo generated by a Knowledge Management Expert to improve organizational efficiency. Please read Why Knowledge Management? While most managers agree that managing knowledge is important, few of them can articulate what the value is or how to become a learning, teaching, or coaching organization. The majority of companies have their knowledge embedded in people and organizations. It is often intuitive,

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    Essay Length: 930 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: David
  • Learning Companies and Knowledge Management

    Learning Companies and Knowledge Management

    During the last century we have moved from the Industrial Age through the Information Age to the Knowledge Age. The ability to obtain, assimilate and apply the right knowledge effectively will become a key skill in the next century. Our ability will no longer be judged solely by qualifications gained in the past, but will also be assessed by our capacity to learn and adapt in the future. In our business world, all organisations are

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    Essay Length: 1,398 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: regina
  • Knowledge Management Assesment Approaches

    Knowledge Management Assesment Approaches

    Knowledge management is a discipline that is fairly new and lacks a concrete foundation. In the latter years of its emergence in the academic scene, an increasing amount of research can be found and institutions have begun implementing knowledge management in their respective curricula. The discipline is also gaining momentum at the corporate level as organizations in Europe and the United States are implementing some sort of knowledge management. Tools and techniques that map the

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    Essay Length: 570 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Jack
  • Knowledge Management Software

    Knowledge Management Software

    I will attempt to inform you on what Knowledge Management Software (KMS) is. I will also attempt to give you a brief history and specific benefits the KMS adds to our specific global organization. First let’s talk about knowledge management (KM), and define what it is? I had the opportunity to talk with three coworkers and for them to give me a definition that I myself had no idea about until I decided to

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    Essay Length: 821 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Artur
  • Article Review: Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management

    Article Review: Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management

    Measuring the Impact of Knowledge Management Jong-Ae Kim, PhD IFLA Journal, Sage Publications, 2006, 32, 362-367 Reviewed by Bambang Fahruddin Syahrir Stud. No. 2057802 This paper is an overview of the approaches to evaluate the impacts of knowledge management implementations to organizational performance. It is considered to be very critical mainly because of the increasing implementation of knowledge management as a new management technique within organizations in which it is believed to be capable of

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    Essay Length: 893 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Max
  • What Is Knowledge Management?

    What Is Knowledge Management?

    What is Knowledge Management? Knowledge Management is the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge. These processes exist whether we acknowledge them or not and they have a profound effect on the decisions we make and the actions we take, both of which are enabled by knowledge of some type. If we accept the premise that knowledge management is concerned with the entire process of discovery and creation of knowledge,

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    Essay Length: 838 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Knowledge Management

    Knowledge Management

    Abstract Most managers can probably state one of the many textbook definitions of knowledge management. Most would also agree that knowledge management would benefit their organization and that their worker’s intellectual capital could be useful to their organization. Yet, they usually don’t have a clue on what kinds of useful knowledge and skills the individuals in their organization possess. Time and time again managers find themselves saying “if only we had known” after realizing an

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    Essay Length: 2,674 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Knowledge Management

    Knowledge Management

    BANK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2005 MODULE: Information / Knowledge Management and e-Business Presented By: Ann Cameron IT Support Services Helpdesk System and Fault Logging Procedure TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 2. Overview ..... .. ..

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    Essay Length: 891 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: David
  • Knowledge Management

    Knowledge Management

    The best way to find out what KM is all about and how other people in the rest of the world are practicing KM is to pick up a KM magazine. This can be done at www.kmworld.com or www.kmmagazine.com . For those who have discovered the power of KM, these two websites have what you need to stay on top of new developments, select among KM options and find answers to your questions. The next

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    Essay Length: 324 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Knowledge Management at a Law Firm

    Knowledge Management at a Law Firm

    The stages in a legal firm and the type of knowledge required In the early years of a lawyer's career, research and document drafting are the predominant professional activities. The tools of legal research are knowledge management tools that help professionals locate the wisdom and analysis previously written by judges, expert scholars and lawyers for adaptation and use in the context presented by a current client. More senior associates and young partners are entrusted with

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    Essay Length: 475 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Fazel
  • The Use of Information Systems in Developing Knowledge Management Strategy

    The Use of Information Systems in Developing Knowledge Management Strategy

    Discuss the key challenges faced by organizations seeking to develop a Knowledge Management Strategy. What are the role and limitations of Information Systems (IS) in supporting such a strategy? Use examples from one or more organisations to illustrate your points. Over the last decade the term "Knowledge Management" has been gaining increasing popularity among managers and business scholars alike, who have come to see it as a useful managerial tool for business to achieve its

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    Essay Length: 2,177 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Report on Knowledge Management Systems

    A Report on Knowledge Management Systems

    A Report on Knowledge Management Systems 1.0 Introduction Over the years Knowledge Management has been defined in many different forms by various people such as Swan et al 1999 and Hibbard. One of the best, simplest definitions which we have come across when conducting our research is, �KM is getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time so they can make the best decision.’ (Petrash in Jashapara 2004). In the modern

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    Essay Length: 2,953 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Vika
  • Knowledge Management and Leadership in Learning Organizations: An Integrated Perspective.

    Knowledge Management and Leadership in Learning Organizations: An Integrated Perspective.

    Knowledge management and leadership in learning organizations: an integrated perspective. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." Alvin Toffler To establish the importance of intimate relationship between leadership practices and knowledge management in the learning organisation, a learning organisation concept should be first identified and discussed, with the emphases on the specific features of contemporary organisation and the essential

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    Essay Length: 1,545 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: June 8, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Knowledge Management Systems

    Knowledge Management Systems

    (i)Knowledge Management Systems Knowledge Management as become one of the major strategic uses of Information technology. Many companies are building Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) to manage organizational learning and business know-how. The goal of KMS is to help knowledge workers create, organize and make available important business knowledge, wherever and whenever its needed in an organization. This includes processes, procedures, patterns, reference works, formulas, best practices, forecasts and fixes. Internet and Intranet websites, groupware, data

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    Essay Length: 318 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2011 By: sagarm_10
  • Abc Corporation Knowledge Management

    Abc Corporation Knowledge Management

    MBA5270 B ________________ Contents 1. Organizational Overview 3 2. Key Performance Indicators 4 3. I&KM Maturity Level 6 4. Information System Overview 7 5. Data Warehousing And Business Intelligence 9 6. Cloud Computing Technologies 10 7. Ethics Statement 11 8. References 12 ________________ 1. Organizational Overview ABC corporation is a market leader in the next generation technologies and has an enriching solutions portfolio in the area of mobile broadband, fixed access, cloud solutions, and Internet

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    Essay Length: 3,000 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2017 By: Aman Singh
  • Area of Knowledge: Management

    Area of Knowledge: Management

    Area of Knowledge: Management Management has formulated a company-side strategic plan defining specific objectives for the new information systems being introduced. Describe how you would develop the operational basis for meeting these strategic objectives. Discuss both the means to maximize the potential of the new systems and also the means to minimize the negative impact of the technology. Introduction Introducing technological change into an organization presents a different set of challenges to management than does

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    Essay Length: 2,876 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: August 6, 2017 By: elliyenos
  • How Might In-Depth Knowledge of Motivational Theory Help Someone Become a Better Manager?

    How Might In-Depth Knowledge of Motivational Theory Help Someone Become a Better Manager?

    HOW MIGHT IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF MOTIVATIONAL THEORY HELP SOMEONE BECOME A BETTER MANAGER? The word motivation comes from the Latin word "movere", which means to move. Motivation is defined as an internal drive that activates behaviours and gives it direction. The term motivation theory is concerned with the processes that describe why and how human behaviour is activated and directed. It is regarded as one of the most important areas of study in the field

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    Essay Length: 1,762 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Managing Knowledge and Learning at Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Library

    Managing Knowledge and Learning at Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Library

    Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Library 1. What are the implications of “faster, better, cheaper” for knowledge management? That is, what advantages and disadvantages are there for the creation, capture and transfer of knowledge? Simply put, FBC is incompatible with effective KM. First, there pressure to accomplish more in less time absolutely requires that employees carry huge workloads with little room for revision, evaluation or documentation. It is impossible to

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    Essay Length: 856 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Max
  • What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge ?

    What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge ?

    WHAT’S YOUR STRATEGY FOR MANAGING KNOWLEDGE ? 1) About the authors This article was written by three authors, Morten T.Hansen, Nitin Noria and Thomas Tierney. I guess that they have a really interesting point of view on what they are dealing with in the article because of their high professional position. Being a professor at a school such as Harvard or being the worldwide managing director of a company such as Bain requires a high

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    Essay Length: 642 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Role of Human Resources in Managing Knowledge Within Organisations

    The Role of Human Resources in Managing Knowledge Within Organisations

    The Role of Human Resources in Managing Knowledge within Organisations The correct utilisation and management of knowledge has been cited as a key way of assisting firms in evolving in tandum with the ever changing environments they work within. However this manifestaiton of knowledge and skills is far more complecated then first envisaged. A huge amount of debate has arisen in terms of the direction and correct implementation of skills, learning, knowledge, and information on

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    Essay Length: 1,926 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Assessment of the 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas in Affordable Healthcare Act Insurance Exchange

    Assessment of the 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas in Affordable Healthcare Act Insurance Exchange

    On March 23rd, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, saying it protects “the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care”. One of the mandates is every state must establish a public Health Insurance Exchange that serves as a competitive marketplace for individuals and small employers to compare health insurance options. The state has a few options: 1. The state can develop a

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    Essay Length: 2,353 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2016 By: pattyarashi
  • Company’s Approach to Strategic Management of Knowledge and Organizational Learning

    Company’s Approach to Strategic Management of Knowledge and Organizational Learning

    COMPANY’S APPROACH TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING No century in human history has experienced so many social transformations and radical ones as the twentieth century (Peter Drucker) Current happenings in the management of corporations elicited rising awareness in the position of knowledge in the form of intellectual capital in organizational performance and profitability. In economic theory knowledge was envisioned as externalities and attention was given to labor and capital as the primary

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    Essay Length: 3,408 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: July 30, 2017 By: Tonybishops
  • Knowledge and Innovation Management: Developing Dynamic Capabilities to Capture Value from Innovation

    Knowledge and Innovation Management: Developing Dynamic Capabilities to Capture Value from Innovation

    Knowledge and Innovation Management: Developing Dynamic Capabilities to Capture Value From Innovation Marianne Gloet & Danny Samson, University of Melbourne, Australia Abstract This qualitative research examined the links between business models, business strategy and innovation and investigated the extent to which knowledge and innovation management (KIM) contributes to the processes of value creation, value networks and value capture across six organizations characterized by successful innovation performance and strong KIM practices. The development of KIM as

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    Essay Length: 6,564 Words / 27 Pages
    Submitted: June 21, 2018 By: SherrySanna

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