A community of practice has recently been defined as “a flexible group of professionals,
informally bound by common interests, who interact through interdependent tasks guided by …

The effective and explicit management of knowledge has been presented as a key factor in
the survival of companies in current business environments. The software development …

The computer support of cooperation andknowledge production across sociallydistributed
activity systems has become animportant topic in the context of the discourseon``knowledge …

This paper reports preliminary findings from a 3-year study1 investigating the capture and
transfer of organisational knowledge and learning practices in the production of what have …

Many knowledge management (KM) efforts revolve around managing documents in a
repository or enabling better real‐time communication. An ideal approach would combine …

This paper examines barriers to adopting competence systems in knowledge work practice.
On the basis of a technology review and a user site investigation, the paper relates the …

Consulting and research organizations are characterized by a project orientation, teamwork,
a flat organizational structure, and a dynamically changing set of personnel roles and …

Organizations have realized that effective development and management of their
organizational knowledge base is very important for their survival in todays competitive …

This paper describes and evaluates the design of Competence Visualizer (CV), a
competence system generating competence patterns of organizational groups. The system …

Based on previous research and properties of organizational memory, a conceptual model
for navigation and retrieval functions in an Intranet portal organizational memory information …