The term knowledge management (KM) first came to prominence in the late 1990s. Although initially dismissed as a fad, KM continues to be featured in articles concerning business productivity and innovation. And yet, clear-cut examples that demonstrate the success of KM are few and far between. A...

Although Communities of Practice have become a core concept in understanding how knowledge is managed within organizations, there have been few studies of the praxis of formation of Communities of Practice. In this article, we report on a Grounded Theory study of the members of a previously...

This paper addresses the design problem of providing IT support to organizational knowledge creation within a geographical cluster. This study is based on a design science approach that serves to successfully introduce and implement a new IT artefact as a tool for interorganizational knowledge...

Knowledge management (KM) is playing an important role in commercial and academic activities, and people are usually armed with effective KM tools for implementation. On one hand, KM tools can facilitate KM activities; however, on the other hand, with the "explosion" of KM tools development,...

This article returns to a theme addressed in Vol. 8(1) October 2002: knowledge management and the problem of managing tacit knowledge. The article is primarily a review and analysis of the literature associated with the management of knowledge. In particular, it focuses on the works of a group...

In previous research work we defined a conceptual model of a one-stop public administration and we created a prototype to illustrate it. In parallel we participate in a European research project that is developing an integrated e-government platform. In order to do so the project consortium...

la réalité de l'entreprise : la connaissance est un enjeu économique majeur de demain. Créer, capitaliser et partager son capital de connaissances est une préoccupation de toute organisation performante. Mais cerner ce qu'est vraiment la gestion des connaissances dans une organisation n'est...

The two main objectives of the project are: *) Knowledge capitalisation : to integrate the huge amount of knowledge accumulated by EDF during those last twenty years on safety, summarised in the APE (Approche Par Etats, State-oriented Approach), methodology which is an approach based on the...

Pendant de nombreuses années, la recherche en gestion des connaissances s'est intéressée à l'élaboration, pour le niveau opérationnel de l'entreprise (les métiers), de méthodes, outils et démarches de repérage, de préservation, de formalisation, d'enrichissement et de valorisation des...

Human knowledge has always been an object of research. Social systems have generated huge Knowledge Capital, depending on their project and their environment. These sets of knowledge are structured as systems, and are new research objects. Analysis of such systems are of great importance in our...