Purpose: Insight has grown that for an organization to learn and change successfully, forgetting and unlearning are required. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the relevant existing body of empirical research on forgetting and unlearning, to encourage research using a greater variety of...

Not only the public services are able to ensure the effective and efficient use of e-democracy tools. This contribution points out how a party must be structured to function as a neutral service provider for the citizen to set the results of electronic decision-making processes generally...

Collaborative Engineering is a promising concept to increase the competitiveness of companies. Target of this paper is to describe the industrial application of this approach, considering shipbuilding as an example ...

The efficient use of human capital is one of the most important factors in todays business competition. Competition is strongly influenced by qualified staff ...

Business processes can be modelled and analysed extensively with well known and established methods. The simple signs of static knowledge do not fulfil the requirements of a comprehensive and integrated approach of process-oriented knowledge management ...

Knowledge is more and more a key factor within companies. Nearly 40 percent of all employees are so called knowledge workers ... This paper summarizes the requirements, scopes and problems for skill management system within the company.