Knowledge Management is getting a lot of attention in the press these days.
This document describes how IBEX addresses this problem through providing an architecture and a set of tools, which help senior management in their decision-making processes.
The information and choices are presented in a knowledge management tool referred to as a management simulator.
Users set corporate objectives that are applicable to the general subject of M & A. Examples of objectives might be a market share objective or an objective to gain some new talent that indicates a merger with some partner that has new skills and capabilities.
A "Virtual Conference" is set up for the purpose of managing a possible merger.
abstract
distinguish between explicit and tacit forms of knowledge and argue
that different kinds of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic) are crucial
for generating and transferring the two forms of knowledge.
They analyze various organizational and motivational devices with respect
to their suitability for making use of explicit and tacit knowledge.
Since knowledge generation and transfer are essential for a firm's sustainable
competitive advantage, we ask specifically what kinds of motivation
are needed to generate and transfer tacit knowledge, as opposed to explicit
knowledge.
In line with the knowledge-based view of the firm, we distinguish explicit
from tacit knowledge.
Intrinsic motivation is not simply additive to the motivation induced
by prices (extrinsic incentives).
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Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) got its start in knowledge engineering by providing services to our internal engineering organization more than 25 years ago.
Our knowledge engineering solutions go beyond acquisition and management of the knowledge to incorporate efficient delivery and collaboration techniques.
DRC is an industry leader in the development of techniques and tools for capturing knowledge to support knowledge management or the development of realistic simulation systems.
DRC's knowledge acquisition team conducts knowledge acquisition and engineering for complex systems; conducts research in and develops tools for knowledge representation, management, and interchange; develops ontologies to support complex systems; collects, analyzes, and provides quality control for domain data; and develops repositories and effective techniques to distribute knowledge.
Pluto_SDT
Pluto, atmosphere, composition, Stern, Charon, solar, ice, solar system, Lunine, temperature.
Since the Outer Planets AO is asking for proposals that describe a complete Pluto remote sensing or radio science investigation, the scope of this report describing the state of knowledge of the Pluto-Charon system and the outstanding scientific questions is quite comprehensive.
The basic parameters of the reference mission and the Pluto "strawman payload" were developed by the Outer Planets Science Working Group** prior to the formation of the Pluto Science Definition Team.
Knowledge of the orbit of Charon around Pluto, which is essential to understanding the dynamics of the system, densities of the bodies, and even the radius of Pluto (through stellar occultations) has been undergoing constant improvement since the satellite's discovery in 1978.
knowledge http://www.pbs.org/kqed/nobel/knowledge.pdf
students, science, poster, scientists, ethics, standards, debate, nuclear weapons, principles, technology.
Scientists confront issues in ethics on a regular basis.
The scientific community debates issues in ethics and considers potentially harmful applications.
In this lesson, students will work in teams to do further research on the ethics issues presented in The Nobel: Visions of Our Century.
This lesson plan relates to the following National Science Education standards.
Merriam-Webster provides the following: ethic: "a set of moral principles or values," "the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group" moral: "of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior" To facilitate discussion, ask students why a scientist might need to think about morals or ethics.
Each group decides on a research topic, presenting one side of an issue (for example, Nuclear weapons should not have been developed by the United States).
Students could choose an issue to debate, as either a class or a team presentation.
collab-viz
CSCW, knowledge management, visualization, communication, Babble, groupware, support, awareness, classification, collaboration.
General background on CSCW How can visualization enable CSCW?
Babble is a multichannel, text-based chat system to which many users can connect, and either select from a list of conversations to participate in, or create their own.
and also have a chat space that would provide for real-time dialog, not necessarily staying on a particular topic, but a way to build trust, establish deeper relationships, a way to complement what you're trying to address over in the threaded dialog space.
It's needed in the widely distributed, no-travel, matrix managed environment that we have today."
Would the use of synchronous communication and the ability to annotate messages be helpful?
Can the structure of information within emails be exploited to provide better automatic summarizations?
drlicexam http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/docs/drlicexam.pdf
exams, knowledge exams, Field Services, Bureau, license, instruction permits, Annual Report, school bus, endorsements, CDL.
For more information contact: DMV uses knowledge exams to test applicants' ability to recognize highway signs and knowledge of traffic laws and safedriving practices.
· renewal of CDL HazMat endorsements The exams are also required for individuals applying for renewal of an instruction permit and renewal of a license expired more than 4 years.
DMV offers exams at Service Centers on a walk-in basis.
The exams are also given at many local high schools in conjunction with their driver-education programs.
Upon successful completion of the exam, the applicant is issued either an instructional permit or a license for a fee.
innovation http://www.pkc.com/papers/innovation.pdf
patients, practitioners, uncertainty, responsibility, knowledge coupling, physicians, medicine, decision making, innovation, health.
Further, KC tools offer an alternative strategy for managing clinical uncertainty, which also entails relinquishing personal responsibility for patients and decision making.
The following examines two core aspects of the orientation practitioners typically take regarding the uncertainty and personal responsibility associated with clinical practice.
Discussion: Physicians, consumers, and third-parties If the above assessment is correct, one would expect that contrary tendencies internal to the practice of medicine would both favor and oppose the widespread use of Weed's knowledge coupling innovation.
First, knowledge coupling tools offer a much-needed solution to the problem of medical uncertainty -- a problem that only deepens as medical knowledge and patients' expectations increase.
Wallace-SaintOnge
community, practice, members, support, management, expand, creation, purpose, capabilities, learning.
One of the most prominent strategies is developing and supporting communities of practice.
Early analysis of knowledge-based organizations identified groups of employees getting together to solve work-related problems without management directive or involvement.
Through a meeting of the minds, community members are able to pool their expertise, share their experience, test new ideas, improve on past processes and procedures, and find solutions that result in increased capability and improved performance.
Communities of practice can provide an organization with a means to increase capabilities, expand knowledge capital, and out perform the competition.
With a systematic approach to the development and support of these communities, an organization's knowledge vision becomes its operational persona.
macarthur
technology, developing nations, technological change, research capacities, exchange, publishing, extending, scholarship, sustaining, participation.
Technological changes have radically altered the way university faculty go about their research, whether in collecting data, consulting the relevant literature, collaborating with colleagues or writing and publishing their work.
The result will be, I believe, a well-documented and carefully researched case for expanding research capacity in developing countries through new policies, approaches, and technologies.
As things now stand, university libraries in developing countries are simply not able to keep up with the current state of scholarship, given a doubling of journal titles between 1975 and 1989, and a doubling in average subscription costs.
The Association of Research Libraries has launched BioOne, with open-access journals in biology.
What appears to be missing are not so much the technology, but what Susana Quiroz, Director General, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua calls, "university intellectual production databases" (1998).
execsum
networks, knowledge networks, NSF, Investigator, Monge, Contractor, dynamics, co-evolution, network data, research team.
However, while many writers assert that an organization's ability to cultivate these evolving network forms of knowledge will help determine its success, we know little about how this new form of organizational capital develops.
In addition, perhaps because a systematic, rigorous study of how knowledge networks evolve would require multi-disciplinary collaboration and considerable technical resources, we lack an empirically driven, methodologically expedient, and theoretically sophisticated account of such an evolution.
Recent NSF funded work by Fulk et al. (1996), Monge and Contractor (in press) and Monge et al. (1998) has identified a number of theoretical mechanisms that explain the evolution of communication networks.
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tradition, practices, Indian, Vrkshayurveda, manuscripts, India, spirituality, agriculture, plant, texts.
The Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems (CIKS) has considerable experience in studying indigenous knowledge in India.
In the context of Compas it will document various sources of classical knowledge and test some of the concepts and practices found in classical texts.
Within Ayurveda, classical Indian knowledge, the classical Indian plant science, Vrkshayurveda, is highly advanced.
There are manuscripts devoted entirely to Vrkshayurveda, more general collections within which there are sections relating to it, and there are also parts of Ayurveda that focus on plant life.
In western perception the term 'folklore' is used to denote knowledge that prevails amongst the common people and is propagated through oral tradition.
AAAI2002-Spring http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/AAAI2002-Spring.pdf
commonsense, reasoning, english, reformulation, inference, Bob, representation, natural language, patterns, expressions.
The Open Mind Common Sense project is an attempt to construct a database of commonsense knowledge through the collaboration of a distributed community of thousands of non-expert netizens.
We give an overview of the project, describe our knowledge acquisition and representation strategy of using natural language rather than formal logic, and demonstrate this strategy with a search engine application that employs simple commonsense reasoning to reformulate problem queries into more effective solution queries.
We supply inference rules to REFORMULATOR by example, by first eliminating determiners and replacing words with their root forms, and then substituting with variables parenthesized phrases that match across the sentences of the pattern.
KM_DeveloperIQ_KMFaces_final
management, leadership, knowledge sharing, initiatives, technology, recognition, Infosys, loss, tacit knowledge, developers.
The KM approach: keys to success Most companies adopt a three-pronged approach to manage knowledge - People, Process & Technology.
Despite the varying prominence given to each of these three elements, most companies have recognized the need to have people at the center of their KM initiatives.
Let's explore the roles that different organizational entities -- the company leadership, the team leaders and the other employees - can play to manage their knowledge efficiently.
Monitoring the progress, reviewing the benefits accrued from KM, involving the rest of the organization and instilling a spirit of knowledge sharing are as critical.
Recognition programs have been institutionalized and the leadership backs the deployment of knowledge management initiative from tip to toe.
RRBrochure http://rru.worldbank.org/Documents/RRBrochure.pdf
bank, Rapid Response, web site, policy, private sector, developing countries, government, expertise, Bank Group, advice.
Rapid Response is a window into the knowledge resources and advice of World Bank Group experts working in more than 100 developing countries.
Rapid Response's objective is to contribute to higher quality design and implementation of public policy for the private sector in developing countries.
Bank Group, promotes growth in the developing world by financing private sector investments and providing technical assistance and advice to government and business.
About fee-based services In addition to its free services, Rapid Response offers fee-based advice tailored to users' needs.
The fee-based service covers small advisory transactions requiring up to 5 days of an expert's time if you are: A government or government institution from one of the Bank's 181 member countries.
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