In a knowledge management project, the key issue is to help the stakeholders to choose which parts of their knowledge will need to be specifically capitalized. This means finding a decision support approach enabling them to identify and locate potential crucial knowledge. To deal with this type...

Very often, Knowledge Management System is considered from a technological viewpoint that induces to consider the knowledge as an object, and so to disregard the importance of people. In this paper we suggest a global vision of Knowledge Management within the Enterprise that is represented by an...

This paper introduces a reflection on the types of data to accessed by be extended company's employees from the Knowledge Management viewpoint. This leads us to distinguish between three types of data: main-stream-data, shared-data, and source-of-knowledge-data. In that way, as distinguishing...

In this paper, we propose a method to locate the company's crucial knowledge for improving the quality of decision making in a design project. It comprises of a preliminary survey regarding the approach that has been carried out at automotive company for identifying the crucial knowledge, aiming...

The research effort started at the 2006 Hawaii Conference on System Sciences identifies seven key areas of KM research: KM Foundations, Knowledge Transfers, KM Systems, KM Research Methods KM Success, Ethical Issues in KM, and KM Education (Jennex, 2006). In this paper, we refer to MGKME, our...

Under the influence of globalization,and the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)that modify radically our relationship with space and time, the hierarchical company locked up on its local borders becomes an Extended Company, without borders, opened and adaptable. In this...

This document based on our Extended Enterprise’s vision. We present a model of an Information and Knowledge System supported by a Digital Information System. This highlights a link between two models of reference : The Model for General Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME) and...