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This paper explored why employees share their knowledge with others based on three typical Congolese companies. A thorough content analysis was conducted in order to analyze our data, which were collected from an online survey. Our results indicated that motivations were divided into different types depending on different knowledge sharing behaviors. Learning new knowledge, knowledge self-efficacy...
Knowledge management systems, or KMS, have been widely adopted in businesses, and little research exists on the integration of these systems in the field of higher education. Knowledge management systems were developed to support and enhance the organizational processes in agreement with the strategy of the organization. Our objective is to shed light on the consequences of knowledge management systems...
Construction is a project-based industry, and for each project, companies have to cope with specific challenges. Nevertheless, most of these challenges are similar to each other and share many common elements. Thus, projects are an important source of expert know-how and organizational knowledge, but lessons learned in each one are not systematically incorporated into the design and construction phases...
Improving the efficiency of the risk management process in highly complex environments such as the software development industry has been drawing the attention of researchers that seek to understand how knowledge can help reduce those risks, and how it can help in the decision-making processes related to them. The present study was developed to contribute to understanding the role of knowledge management...
In era of knowledge-based economy, enterprises are in the new game to win by Intellectual Capital which is the key of corporate competitiveness. Hence, measurement of Intellectual Capital becomes an urgent task for organizations. Sveiby (2001) divided the measuring methods into four categories, namely DIC (Direct Intellectual Capital Methods), MCM (Market Capitalization Methods), ROA (Return on Assets...
Further functions and enhanced performance requirements made to various information and communication technology (ICT) equipment have improved technical standards and the scale of development in design. Computer aided design (CAD) systems that support those development are becoming increasingly more complicated and extensive than they were several years ago. CAD system engineers have to learn not...
Business environment has shifted into a customer-oriented one, changing the way customers take part in creating value towards organizational increase of competitive advantages. More than ever, customers are considered as knowledge, leading to insights, innovations, and new ideas within a company. Knowledge acquisition, such as customer knowledge, is proven to be very difficult. This leads us to explore...
Knowledge management (KM) is essential for success in global software development. Software organizations are now managing knowledge in innovative ways to increase productivity. In agile software development, collaboration and coordination depend on the communication, which is the key to success. To maintain effective collaboration and coordination in distributed agile projects, practitioners need...
Knowledge management has become a vital strategy to conserve company knowledge and to reuse them. Research in this area has always been consenting on domain knowledge, domain ontology, expert systems etc. have been developed to manage professional domain knowledge, but less effort has been done on cooperative knowledge. In this paper, a cooperative knowledge discovery method DKD is proposed, we elaborated...
Knowledge management as an intermediary force to study the relationship of social capital, knowledge management and performance in logistics companies. Construct theoretical model and select 157 samples for an empirical study. Structural equation analysis showed that cognitive and relational social capital have no significant positive impact on knowledge creation, and knowledge sharing has no significant...
In practicing knowledge management in organization has a potential in developing and nurture innovation culture and competitive advantages in manufacturing industry. The innovation culture required people in organization to collaborate and work together in exchange and share their knowledge, ideas and experience. Apparently, knowledge sharing is a pivotal process of enhance innovation through exchange...
Knowledge is one key to achieve competitive advantage to an organization. As a company with high employee turnover rate, a human resource consulting company in Jakarta suffers loss of knowledge possessed by resigned employee. Various efforts have been made to equip new employees to have knowledge as employees being replaced. Nevertheless the knowledge of the new employee cannot match the knowledge...
This paper aims to present knowledge management model at each stage of small and medium enterprises (SME) life cycle based on characteristics of each stage. Proposed model is formulated as a result of literature review from nine Organizational Life Cycle (OLC) model and some previous research of knowledge management in SMEs. Based on the differences of characteristics obtained from previous models,...
This article aims at studying the link between the innovation capability of SMEs and knowledge management, particularly aspects related to industrial property (IP). IP is indeed a strategic component of the innovation capability of a company, where as this issue is not still taken into account by most of the SMEs. In order to study the SMEs behavior concerning innovation and IP, a proposal of methodology...
This paper aims at conceptualizing and developing a framework for the management of engineering changes (ECs) which are usually modification in the forms, fits, materials, dimensions etc. of the products and constituent components in the engineer-to-order companies. Engineering changes induce a series of downstream changes due to the coupling between multiple departments and responsibilities. Previous...
In this paper key presumptions and prerequisites of e-cluster organization and sustain development in TIMES technology sectors (TIMES — Telecommunication, Information technology, Multimedia, Entertainment, Security) are analyzed and how can integrate small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the e-cluster. E-clustering is macroeconomic policy and strategy with crucial impact on horizontal and vertical...
This paper looked at an IT company by implementing a social networking system, Yammer, to implement an enterprise microblogging system as a alternate knowledge sharing tool for better knowledge sharing practices among employees. This paper highlighted that survey responses and interview followed with focus group study showed that Yammer, an enterprise microblogging system, is a possible future knowledge...
A dominant, fast growing chunk of global GDP, the service sector is unique marked by intangibility, simultaneous production and consumption of the "product" and reliance on employee skills. Talent and skills are the base for this sector and the challenge lies in knowledge retention and management. particularly, IT services. Four types of IT employees are identified -- knowledge absorbers,...
The strategic value of knowledge lies in its effective transfer from those who have it to those who need it through a process of knowledge exchange. Organizations invest significant resources in communities of practice, knowledge repositories, and other initiatives to support knowledge exchange, yet, these initiatives do not always succeed. The purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to present...
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