People, knowledge and technology : what have we learnt so far? : proceedings of the first iKMS International Conference on Knowledge Management, Singapore, 13-15 December 2004 / editors; Bruno Trezzini, Patrick Lambe, Suliman Hawamdeh.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hawamdeh, Suliman, 1955-

Lambe, Patrick, 1960-

Trezzini, Bruno.

Information and Knowledge Management Society.

Conference Name:

IKMS International Conference on Knowledge Management (1st : 2004 : Singapore)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in organizations--Congresses.

Communication in organizations.

Knowledge management--Congresses.

Knowledge management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers from the First International Conference on Knowledge Management (iCKM 2004) offers insights into the state-of-the-art in KM and the challenges lying ahead. Grouped into six themes - communities and collaboration, knowledge sharing, culture as context, knowledge management strategies, knowledge creation, and knowledge discovery - authors provide thought-provoking theoretical and practical discussions, through quantitative analyses and detailed case-studies. iCKM 2004 was organized by the Information and Knowledge Management Society (iKMS), a non-profit society dedicate

Contents:

PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; PART I Abstracts of Keynote Addresses; THE HIDDEN POWER OF SOCIAL NETWORKS Rob Cross; KNOWLEDGE STRATEGY AND INNOVATION Josef Hofer-Alfeis; THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Dave Snowden; METADATA SPEAKS: THE THIRD ORDER OF ORDER AND THE VALUE OF THE UNSPOKEN David Wein berg er; PART II Communities and Collaboration; EFFECTS OF COMPANY SIZE AND WORKER'S EXPERIENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DELIVERY FACTORS VIS-A-VIS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFICIENCY Samuel A. Ajila & Zheng Sun; 1 Introduction; 2 Background and Motivation; 3 Research Hypotheses

3.1 How knowledge is delivered 3.2 When is the best time to deliver knowledge; 3.3 How knowledge is embedded; 3.4 Form of Knowledge delivery; 4 Research Methods; 4.1 Research Model, Variables and Measures; 4.1.1 Independent Variables; 4.1.2 Dependent Variable; 4.1.3 Control Variables; 5 Research Results; 5.1 Hypotheses Testing; 5.2 The effects of Company size and Knowledge Workers' Experience on Knowledge delivery Factors; 6 Conclusions; 6.1 Limitations and Future Work; References

DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE I N ""NETWORKS OF PRACTICE"" Pierpaolo Andriani, Gary Atkinson, Alistair Bowden & Richard Hall 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE TWO CASE STUDIES; 2.1 The Durham "MINER" Project; 2.2 The MADIC Experiment; 2.3 The Characteristics of the Case Studies; 3 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; 3.1 Diversity, growing complexity and the network society; 4 DISCUSSION; 4.1 Knowledge processes in NoP; 4.2 Modularity and NoP; 5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; DEMONSTRATING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF KNOWLEDGE HALLWAYS WITHIN PRICE-WATERHOUSE COOPERS Gerard Bredenoord; 1 Introduction

2 Approaches to Knowledge Management 3 Background to h C ' s KM programme; 4 Implementation of the Knowledge Broker role at PWC; 5 Why do we need "Hallways"? - The business objectives; 6 What are "Hallways"? - The Characteristics; 7 Challenges to Implementing "Hallways"; 8 Conclusions; 9 Challenges and Next Steps; 9.1 Adoption Rate; 9.2 Communication, Education and Remuneration; 9.3 Leadership; References; DYNAMICS I N TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED TEAMS: TRANSACTIVE MEMORY I N TRUST NETWORKS Klarissa Ting-Ting Chang; 1 Introduction; 2 Theory; 2.1 Transactive Memory; 2.2 Trust Networks

2.3 Theory of Social Exchange 3 Research Hypotheses; 3.1 Effects of Trust Networks; 3.2 Effects of Social Presence; 3.3 Effects of Reciprocal Exchange; 3.4 Effects of Negotiated Exchange; 4 Methods; 5 Results; 6 Discussion; 6.1 Trust Networks; 6.2 Social Presence; 6.3 Social Exchanges; 7 Future Work; References; APPLYING SENSE-MAKING METHODOLOGY TO ESTABLISH COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: EXAMPLES FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL Bonnie Cheuk; 1 Background; 1.1 Introduction to the British Council; 1.2 Why Communities of Practice?

2 Sense-Making Methodology as an Emerging Approach to Establish Communities of Practice

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611898175

9781281898173

1281898171

9789812702081

9812702083

OCLC:

853361880