Chapter 6: Knowledge Management in Practice

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          In the context of KM, CoPs are generally understood to mean electronically linked communities. Electronic linkage is not essential of course, but since KM arose in the consulting community from the awareness of the potential of Intranets to link geographically dispersed organizations, this orientation is understandable and inevitable. The organization and maintenance of CoPs is not a simple and easy undertaking. As Durham, M. [2004] points out, there are several...

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Chapter 5 : Knowledge Acts

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First, You must find how and what the knowledge we have and we must have. then you can  post the content of the knowledge,after that, you can keep your knowledge growth with Reusing the knowledge you have described before it. There are many philosophers and Scientist opinion about "What is Knowledge Acts?" : -Searle, J., 1969] : Question asking and answering is a foundational process by which what people know tacitly becomes expressed, and hence, externalized as knowledge. To support such a view, we borrow from speech acts theory. -Hirschheim...

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Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Knowledge Emergence

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4.1 GATEKEEPERS, INFORMATION, STARS,AND BOUNDARY SPANNERS The seminal work was that of Thomas J. Allen of MIT [Allen and Cohen, 1969, Allen,T.,1977] who conducted a number of studies relating to information flow in industrial and corporate R&Dlaboratories. Allen coined the term ‘Gatekeeper’ to describe the information flow stars that he discovered, the heavily connected nodes in the information flow pattern. Another finding was that the information flow structure was not at all closely related to the formal organizational structure, and that...

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