Leveraging Enterprise 2.0 for Knowledge Sharing

Enterprise 2.0 takes on the full benefits of Web 2.0 services and has great potential in delivering business benefits. Many organizations have invested in this platform yet many are still hesitant to the adoption of it. This research paper explores the use of Enterprise 2.0 and how it can be incorporated into the changing business environment. The paper delineates the principles of KM and draw inferences where the appropriate use of Enterprise 2.0 will improve knowledge sharing. The underlying principles of KM strategy and the desired transformation discussed, illustrates challenges and gaps in knowledge sharing. The subsequent discussion explores the identified gaps and proposed the appropriate use of Enterprise 2.0, based on social capital theory. The study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the coherence of Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge sharing and identify the potential areas of improvements through appropriate use of Enterprise 2.0

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse