Journal of Knowledge Management Practice :: How To Make Knowledge Management A Firm's Core Capability
by Abdelkader Daghfous, American University of Sharjah
ABSTRACT:
If knowledge and its management are so important a determinant of firm performance and competitiveness, then making knowledge management a firm's core capability is likely to give that firm a sustainable competitive advantage. This paper uses the capabilities approach to guide those aspects of general management that materially affect the creation of distinctive and difficult-to-imitate advantages. The framework proposed in this paper extends beyond isolated KM interventions, activities, and physical systems and proposes an integrative approach to KM. Although core capabilities are firm specific and developed over time, a framework that guides general managers in turning KM into a core capability is proposed. The framework is extensively based on Leonard-Barton's (1995) four dimensions of a core capability and Davenport and Prusak's (1998) comprehensive overview of KM.
Journal of Knowledge Management Practice :: Use Of Ontologies To Enhance The Design Of A Framework For Multi-Party Collaboration And Decision-Making: The Case Of Situation Room Analysis
by Bob Roberts, Kingston University and Adamantios Koumpis, ALTEC S.A.
ABSTRACT:
Work presented in this paper forms part of a wider research in defining a methodological framework for Situation Room Analysis (SRA), and its deployment for complex (business enterprise) systems study. In our approach, we propose the use of ontologies as a powerful means to support the implementation of multi-party collaboration and decision-making activities that build on the paradigm of a Situation Room (SR). The approach is complementary to others in the area of business planning and is characterised as top-down in that the SR paradigm is conceptualised through three related models: the Situation Room Model (SRM), the Information Management Model (IMM) and the Situation Analysis Model (SAM). The ontology-based approach includes the semantic features of the exchanged decision-making information thus offering the integration of the SRA framework with existing corporate decision-making grids.
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