Knowledge communication is an essential mechanism to facilitate intra- and interorganizational knowledge transfer. In order to improve the efficiency of knowledge communication, organizations need to pay particular attention to the clarity of conveyed knowledge in order not to create confusion,...

As pointed out by several scholars, inter-organizational collaboration is an important vehicle for knowledge creation. But the process of integrating knowledge across organizational boundaries entails great complexity. In this paper, we argue that visualizing knowledge in interorganizational...

Technological change and high competitiveness are essential for organisations in today’s fast-paced society. Information and knowledge assets thus need to be current and easily accessible. With implementing core knowledge processes such as identification and accumulation, msg systems ag - a...

The paper explores the application of Web 2.0 technologies in the engineering product development domain. Growing on data collected from a number of industrial development projects, related to several different products in various industry segments, the paper analyses the dichotomy between the...

Ontology evaluation is an integral part of the ontology development process. Errors in ontology create serious problems for the information system based on it. To our surprise, the existing systems are unable to identify most of the errors. We evaluate some well known ontologies against the...

This paper looks at the convergence of knowledge management and Enterprise 2.0 and describes the possibilities for an overarching exchange and transfer of knowledge in Enterprise 2.0. This will be underlined by the presentation of the concrete example of TSystems Multimedia Solutions GmbH (MMS),...

Although most enterprises nowadays increasingly employ digital information management in all areas, there are still many organisations - e.g. in the Public Sector - where much of formal and informal information is documented on paper only. This work lays out the concept of a set of digital...

An industrialisation of knowledge intensive work can be observed when analysing the transformation of the information society. This means that knowledge work reached a maturity that it can be expressed in form of processes, semantics or rules. When applying a business process oriented view -...

Experts of specific domains form the fastest increasing workforce in the OECD countries. Since this fact has been realised by management researchers, they have focussed on the question of how to measure and enhance the productivity of said workforce. According to the author’s research, it is,...

KnowCube®, a novel multi criteria decision making tool, is introduced. Its userfriendly interface assists “intuitive surfing through decision spaces” by means which are also familiar to non-experts. Causes and effects of alternatives may be examined from different points of view, and...