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In today's knowledge economy, competitive advantage is achieved through proper and efficient knowledge management (KM). KM is critical for organisational wellbeing. Research has shown that Africa has not explored knowledge management practices much. As a continent, Africa is being transformed economically, yet its knowledge economy is to be explored and developed. However, on a Development Community's...
Management with relevant and deep experience and knowledge is crucial for organizational success and durability. Knowledge audit is a key step in managing knowledge. This paper uses Bohn's model of knowledge growth to develop a survey instrument for knowledge audit of a typical construction company. The instrument is applied to conduct knowledge audit of a construction company in the United Arab Emirates...
This quantitative survey carried out among accountants and managers revealed that individual and organizational enablers are critical in ensuring the success of knowledge sharing process, through knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. Knowledge of accounting information, whether it be financial or non-financial, is an important driver on the success of an organization. Successful companies ensure...
The statistical relationship between structural capital and innovation in Indonesian manufacturing industries is presented. The correlation is constructed using recent survey data on the contribution of structural capital to the innovation processes in the industries. The correlation is represented quantitatively using the recently developed Intellectual Capital and Innovation (ICI) index involving...
This study examines the relationship between Economic Value Added (EVA), being the measurement for value creation of companies and the Malaysian stock market performance. The study specifically segregated samples into companies which are value creator (with positive EVA) and value destroyer (with negative EVA) and examine how this two type of samples have any impact on the Malaysia stock market performance...
This paper aim to identify and understand the challenges that have to be faced by a small and medium offshore accounting outsourcing provider implementing knowledge management (KM). This study used interpretive in-depth single case study in order to understand the challenges and innovation in implementing the KM in company. Findings show that the middle manager plays an important role in managing...
Over the last decade organisations have taken a keen interest in retaining tacit knowledge as it is a very important asset for organisations. This has led to the adoption of knowledge management practices that provide innovation in decision making, product and process efficiency. However as organisational knowledge is greatly dependant on the tacit knowledge that its employees possess, it is important...
Knowledge management is receiving attention all over the world. Knowledge management has affected organizational performance at different levels of management as it is widely accepted as strategic resource in companies. Some companies even cite Knowledge excellence as a key competitive discriminator. In a global energy company that has several business unit across countries, the way knowledge is shared...
The value of an electronic knowledge repository depends on the degree to which it offers high quality knowledge to its users. Consequently, firms that use such repositories often implement validation procedures to monitor and ensure the quality of submitted content. However, if perceived as unreasonable or unfair, validation can have the unintended effect of discouraging employee contributions. Drawing...
The traditional methods of digitizing processes do not lend themselves to effectively capture or capitalize on the knowledge assets, particularly when they involve HR processes. Knowledge Management initiatives result in a central portal and, as such, is separate from the HR transactions. When disconnected from HR connectivity programs, intranet knowledge portals suffer from two limitations: User...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and Social Networks Analysis (SNA) aspects in general are currently experiencing an increasing interest from both the academic and business communities. Select and map information to ensure competitive advantage to an organization, alongside managing the exponential flow and the high volume of transactions in ERP, generates high value for firms at the forefront...
Knowledge has become one of the important resources for competitiveness and growth world-wide. Innovative and knowledge-based organizations are characterized by better productivity and sustainability in the fast changing business environment. Technologies provide many opportunities for creativity, collaboration and knowledge transfer, and are behind present changes in innovation models. While large...
Most businesses rely on the fact that their employees possess relevant knowledge and that they can apply it to the task at hand. But a serious problem exists, this knowledge is not owned by the organisation as such. Rather the knowledge is owned and controlled by its employees. The success or failure of the KM systems and the various KM practices claimed to be adopted by software engineering organisations...
The paper proposes a model based approach to manage knowledge based innovation aspects of an enterprise by applying Knowledge Maturing Scorecards. The Knowledge Maturing Scorecard approach is used to define, manage and visualize indicators for the innovation potential of established enterprise goals. The paper (1) introduces the conceptual background of Knowledge Maturing Scorecards, (2) proposes...
Increasing complexity in the business world causes changes in the concept of value creation, measures for success and sustainability. More attention is given to the critical human resources for reducing the risks of managerial decisions. The right knowledge worker in the right place is not anymore just accumulating, sharing and using the knowledge. As the technology evolves and the ecological risks...
During the past few years organizations are moving towards the adoption of open innovation models to make use both internal and external knowledge. Recent efforts concerning open innovation involve building portfolio of relationships and networks that provide access to technology, information and knowledge. For successful open innovation implementation knowledge management (KM) strategies adopting...
A key characteristic of a knowledge economy is the shift from an economy dominated by tangible assets to one that is based on intangible, knowledge-based assets, which consist primarily of human capital and innovation. The success of a regional knowledge economy is, in turn, measured by its ability to attract and retain companies that focus on the production, dissemination and application of knowledge,...
This paper sees knowledge as the key organizational resource that differentiates organizations in their capacity to compete. Managing knowledge for innovation in products, services, management and processes is critical to organizational agility for effective competition. We disclose the selection of tools and techniques employed by innovating organizations to leverage knowledge and with the entity...
Healthcare delivery throughout the United States occurs at varying standards of quality. One segment of the community that continues to suffer from issues pertaining to poor access and low quality is the American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) population. Such a situation is clearly untenable, especially given the plethora of tools, techniques, technologies and tactics afforded by today's knowledge...
In today's chaotic business environment, organizations face the need to rapidly respond to demands, explore new opportunities, apply evolving technologies, and create novel competitive advantages. Knowledge Management (KM) and Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) are two strategic tools through which companies can concurrently exploit their competitive advantages while seeking potential opportunities....
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