Knowledge Management News & Resources

• BildungsCent e.V.
  Zweck des gemeinnützigen Vereins ist die Förderung der Lehr- und Lernkultur in Deutschland.
  (tags: EDU_Societies/Assoc.)
• ProWim - Projekt Wissensmanagement der Berufsschule H7 City Nord in Hamburg
  Austausch, Aufbewahrung und unterrichtlicher Einsatz von Informationen, Arbeitsunterlagen etc im Rahmen der Lernkooperation (Plattform FirstClass)
  (tags: Edu_Projects Edu_Products)
• Wiki-Portal - Kowiki
  Die vorliegende Seite soll als Portal für den Einstieg in die Wikisphäre dienen und über aktuelle Entwicklungen auf dem Laufenden halten. Dabei soll im Laufe der Zeit auch innerhalb des Kowikis Wissen über die Wikisphäre produziert werden. Neue Beitr
  (tags: Wikis)
• Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » Knowledge Management in Education
  presentation will discuss knowledge management concept in the context of education. Presentation will thus recall fundamental concepts of knowledge management and relate with the field of education through different perspectives to explore the ways to sol
  (tags: Edu_Videos)
• UNWTO - World Tourism Organization “Education, Training and Knowledge Management Department”
  implements the World Tourism Organization’s Program of Work in Education and Training. It also coordinates the activities of the UNWTO Education Council as well as the UNWTO.Themis Foundation with the common goal of achieving tourism competitiveness and s
  (tags: Companies)
• Hartman, N.: Integrating Knowledge Management in Education: Evaluating Current Organizational Congruence, Knowledge Management and Behavioral Alignment in Large School Districts. VDM Verlag, 2008
  It was the purpose of this case study to establish baseline criteria/questions for studying the issue of the overarching relationship between knowledge management and behavioral alignment in order to achieve organizational congruence within the educationa
  (tags: Edu_Books Edu_Case-Studies)
• Commonwealth of Learning - pan-Commonwealth ODL Knowledge Management programme
  to provide the Commonwealth’s ODL and development practitioners with an integrated, seamless gateway to information, collaboration and people-networking, using ICTs and multi-media.
  (tags: Societies/Assoc. Projects)

• QuokkaWiki - Holistic Information Management
  primary areas of HIM are: Records Management, Data Management, Content Management, Knowledge Management. secondary HIM areas such as: Project Management, Taxonomy Management, Lifecycle Management, Information Systems Management
  (tags: Wikis)

[English title: Cooperation in the Technical Documentation of the Aircraft and Air Travel Sector (Translate text to: English)]

Anja Flicker, Konrad Schmieder und Tobias Ahlert
Informationen säen, Wissen ernten
technische kommunikation | 30.Jahrgang | 3 / 2008 | Seite 23

Zus.: Liebherr-Aerospace GmbH produziert an verschiedenen Standorten Ausrüstungssysteme und Komponenten für Flugzeuge und Hubschrauber. Die Technische Kommunikation ist durch ein Wiki vernetzt. Anja, Flicker, Konrad Schmieder und Tobias Ahlert zeigen, warum sich das Unternehmen zu diesem Schritt entschlossen hat, wie das Wiki umgesetzt wurde und was es bislang gebracht hat.

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[Deutscher Titel: Wie kleine und mittlere Unternehmen "stilles" und explizites Wissen übertragen (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Title: Knowledge-transfer practices for SMEs: case studies in Finland and Thailand
Author: Kongkiti Phusavat, Pekka Kess, Margit Torkko
Journal: International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development 2008 - Vol. 5, No.5 pp. 513 - 528

Abstract: The study focused on an issue of knowledge transfer across Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The overall goal was to identify current practices for knowledge transfer (i.e. both tacit and explicit) between two SMEs (as manufacturers/buyers and suppliers/providers. This study responded to the concern on outsourcing and supplier development for sustainable SMEs competitiveness. This study represented an initial phase of the research on the term external knowledge. This study involved ten SMEs considered to be of high performance. The results also incorporated the opinions of invited practitioners on the level of practicality of identified practices. There were many knowledge-transfer practices found to be useful for explicit knowledge such as formal meetings, site visits/audits and assignment of contact persons. For tacit knowledge, they included story telling, social interactions and employment of former staffs. The study’s limitations were recognised. Finally, future studies were suggested.

Keywords: knowledge transfer; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; outsourcing; Finland; Thailand; tacit knowledge; explicit knowledge.

Link (DOI): 10.1504/IJMED.2008.019080

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[Deutscher Titel: Eine neurobiologische Erklärung, wie erfahrungsbasiertes Wissen geschaffen wird (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Press release
Intuition can be explained
Anika Agebjörn, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 01.07.2008

Abstract: Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research from Linköping University in Sweden shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created.

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© Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V.

[Deutscher Titel: Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: 97/2008 (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

Gurteen Knowledge-Letter: Issue 97 - July 2008

1. Introduction
2. Its degrading
3. ADVERTISEMENT: ebic 2008
4. RioTinto Community of Practice success story
5. JOB AD: Knowledge Management & Intellectual Property Manager
6. Open salaries
7. KM Global Directory from Ron Young
8. The Gurteen Perspectives, Scibd and Calameo
9. SLA Conference Seattle
10. Victor Newman is blogging!
11. My Upcoming Activities
12. KM Event Highlights
13. Subscribing and Unsubscribing
14. The Gurteen Knowledge Letter

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© Gurteen Knowledge

[Deutscher Titel: International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 5 (6), 2008 - interessante Artikel (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL)
Volume 5 - Issue 6 - 2008

Architectural features of Knowledge Management success organisations 617 - 632
Gyeung-Min Kim, Eun-Sook Kil

• Abstract: The success of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) is ensured by the alignment of the technological infrastructure with other architectural elements of the organisation such as organisational forms, Knowledge Management (KM) process, human resource and reward systems. Despite the importance of the architectural alignment and KM, businesses tend to view KM as an information system project and focus on the implementation of KMS. The purpose of this research is to identify the architectural features of KM success organisations. The results of this research help managers to understand the architectural characteristics necessary to ensure KM success.
• Keywords: human resources; knowledge management; KM; organisational structure; process; technological infrastructure; reward systems; success factors.
• DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2008.019144

Knowledge Management practices: a sectorial analysis 683 - 710
M.D. Singh, R. Kant, R. Narain

• Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to understand the similarities and dissimilarities of Knowledge Management (KM) practices in different selected sectors of Indian engineering industries. A set of hypotheses has been formulated and tested on the basis of a postal survey. The findings of the sectorial analysis show that the selected sectors do not significantly differ on KM characteristics and problems but differ in the intensity of knowledge sharing and openness in their organisations. Further, it has been observed that there is disagreement on the levels of use of various KM enablers and also on the benefits of using KM.
• Keywords: Indian engineering industries; knowledge management; KM enablers; India.
• DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2008.019148

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[English title: Plattform Wissensmanagement-Infoletter, 7/2008 (Translate text to: English)]

PWM-Infoletter, Juli 2008 - 02.07.2008

• Editorial
• Wissenstag Österreich 2008
• I-KNOW Praxisforum: Vergünstigte Anmeldemöglichkeit und Neuigkeiten
• PWM-Termine 2008
  • 33. Community-Treffen der PWM am 03.10.2008, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
  • 34. Community-Treffen der PWM am 05.12.2008, Telekom Austria, Wien
• Aviso
  • TRIPLE-I ‘08, 03.-05. September 2008, Graz
  • Informationsabend der Donau-Universität Krems, 04. September 2008, Wien
• Literaturtipp
  • Das Praxishandbuch Wissensmanagement - Integratives Wissensmanagement (2007)

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Copyright © pwm.at - Medieninhaber, Herausgeber: Know-Center

[Deutscher Titel: International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 1 (3), 2008 (Spezialausgabe: Wissensmanagement unterrichten) (Text übersetzen: Deutsch)]

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (IJTCS)
Volume 1 - Issue 3 - 2008

Special Issue on Teaching Knowledge Management: Integration into Curriculum, Teaching Strategies and Teaching Case Studies
Guest Editors: Professor Miltiadis Lytras, Professor Patricia Ordóñez De Pablos, Professor Nick Bontis and Professor Dov Te’eni

171 - 188 An experiential approach to teaching Knowledge Management
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Arvind Gudi

189 - 199 Self-efficacy and KM course weighting selection: can students optimise their grades?
Nick Bontis, Timothy Hardie, Alexander Serenko

200 - 223 How to overcome pitfalls of (E)ER and UML in Knowledge Management education
Peter Bollen

224 - 233 Designing and managing intervention methods to promote Self-Regulated Learning
Hisham Al-Mubaid

234 - 252 Teaching KM to secondary education teachers through an action research model
Victoria Konidari, Yvan Abernot

253 - 265 Dimensions of KM: they know not its called knowledge… but they can manage it!
Sonal Minocha, George Stonehouse

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• Scribd: David Gurteen’s documents
  The Gurteen perspective - a regular column in the Inside Knowledge Magazine published by the Ark Group; etc.
  (tags: Consultings Articles Journals/Magazines)
• Rio Tinto mining group: Video library - Communities of practice
  See how involvement in communities of practice, is helping Rio Tinto people share expertise and collaborate across the group.
  (tags: Videos Case-Studies)
• Reichwald/Piller: Interaktive Wertschöpfung. Open Innovation, Individualisierung und neue Formen der Arbeitsteilung. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag , Juni 2006 - VOLLTEXT
  Open Innovation und Mass Customization sind aktuelle Strategien, bei denen die Kunden eine neue Rolle bekommen: Sie sind nicht mehr nur passive Konsumenten, sondern aktive Wertschöpfungspartner. Kunden gestalten heute Produkte oder Dienstleistungen aktiv
  (tags: Books)