Knowledge management in a research & development environment - The Integration of company culture and technology

This thesis will show that understanding company structure and company culture are significantly more important than the actual technological tools an organization uses to implement successful knowledge management. An examination of company structure and cultural enablers will be followed by a review of some of the most widespread knowledge management tools to illustrate how knowledge management can be successfully put into practice

Knowledge Management: Practices and Challenges

Knowledge management (KM) is a process that deals with the development, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information and expertise within an organization to support and improve its business performance. Organizations are realizing that knowledge is a crucial resource for organizations and it should be managed judiciously. Organizations need to harness knowledge not only to stay competitive, but also to become innovative. KM requires a major shift in organizational culture and a commitment at all levels of a firm to make it work. Through a supportive organizational climate, ideally, through effective KM, an organization can bring its entire organizational learning and knowledge to bear on any problem, anywhere in the world, at anytime

UA37/30/2 WKU Research Notecards - Y-Z Topics

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 18 topics beginning with Y & Z ranging from Yarbrough, Henry Marcus 1884-1982 to Zephyrus. There are no X topic cards

Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Assess Student Happiness

The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical assessment approach to identify the main factors that affect graduate students\u27 happiness level. The two methods, multiple linear regression (MLR) and artificial neural networks (ANN), were employed for analytical modelling. A sample of 118 students at a small non-profit private university constituted the survey pool. Various factors including education, school facilities, health, social activities, and family were taken into consideration as a result of literature review in happiness assessment. A total of 32 inputs and one output variables were identified during survey design phase. The following survey conduction, data collection, cleaning, and preparation; MLR and ANNs were built. ANN models provided better classification performance with over 0.7 R-square and a smaller standard error of estimate compared to MLR. Major policy areas to improve student happiness levels were identified as career services, financial aid, parking and dining services

Spartan Daily, February 20, 1953

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Companion diagnostics at the intersection of personalized medicine and healthcare delivery.

This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors\u27 final version prior to publication in Biomarkers in Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 1-3. The published version is available at DOI: 10.2217/bmm.14.99. Copyright © Future Medicin

Urban Studies: The Community Report, Volume 1, No.1, fall 2007

This document was received from the Communications Office in 2013. Uploaded by Archives RSA Emily Jordan, class of 2015, in 2014

Theoretical Foundations and Research Opportunities

An under-researched issue in work within the "knowledge movement" is the relation between organizational issues and knowledge processes (i.e., sharing and creating knowledge). We argue that managers can shape formal organization structure and organization forms and can influence the more informal organizational practices in order to foster knowledge sharing and creation. Theoretically, we unfold this argument by relying on key ideas of organizational economics and organizational behaviour studies. We put forward a number of refutable propositions derived from this reasoning. Acknowledgments We are grateful to Anna Grandori for numerous excellent comments on an earlier draft. The standard disclaimer applies. Keywords: Knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, governance, organizational economics, organizational behavior