A Method to Assess Value of Integrated Operations

Integrated operations in the petroleum industry adopt information technology, improve access to real-time data, integrate people and organizations, change work processes, and by doing so, enable better and faster decisions. Consequently, a set of associated business benefits is envisioned. However, the challenge is how to measure them. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic decision analytic method to assess monetary value of integrated operations. The proposed method builds on findings from contemporary literature that emphasizes the need to assess information technology in a broader context of organizational structures and work processes. The method therefore has a built in qualitative assessment of collaborative competence that provides indispensible insights to risks associated with a particular change management project. Yet, it allows for calculating monetary value by integrated formal decision analysis. Feasibility of the method is illustrated by an illustrative case from integrated and collaborative monitoring of offshore operations

Understand the Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation: Roots and future

After the Wars, it was necessary the companies reinvented their process and for this to create a new perspective including products and services. In 1986, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi received a challenge to describe product development in Japan companies. The result was “The new new product development game”. After that, Nonaka and Takeuchi wrote about their observations in this process and published many articles, presenting in 1994 the Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation. In this context, the aim of this study is to review the Nonaka and Takeuchi documents, building a timeline and understand the concepts and the future for the Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation. Firstly, we search the articles from Nonaka in the Scopus database. Secondly, we started reading the article “Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation” published in 1994 for Nonaka. Based on their references we returned for the search results and read the articles. Next, we read the articles published after 1994 and comprehending their link with the Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation. Although the Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation is recognized and diffused in the academy and in the organizations that study or implant the Knowledge Management, it is noticed that few authors deepen the knowledge to understand the fundamentals of the theory or, of fundamental reasoning. It is evident the concern of Nonaka and his co-authors to seek facilitators for the modes of knowledge conversion, to facilitate the practical application of the modes of knowledge conversion

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge in Software Development Projects: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Analysis

The management and delivery of software development projects remains a key business activity in many industries. Although the advent of packaged software products has reduced the incidence of in-house development, bespoke software is still important for some industrial sectors - notably in the finance, defence and security industries. Despite the recognized criticality of software project success for organizations, a considerable proportion of projects continue to either not meet their due dates, exceed budget, do not deliver to specification, miss quality targets, or do not meet customer requirements. Software project failure – be it bespoke products or the implementation of commercially available packages - remains an area of considerable interest in contemporary software project management literature, and the management and transfer of knowledge within both these types of project is a key dimension and driver of project outcomes. This paper examines how knowledge definition and management can be applied within a conceptual framework to improve software development project outcomes

When decision support systems fail: insights for strategic information systems from Formula

Decision support systems (DSS) are sophisticated tools that increasingly take advantage of big data and are used to design and implement individual - and organization - level strategic decisions . Yet, when organizations excessively rely on their potential the outcome may be decision - making failure, particularly when such tools are applied under high pressure and turbulent conditions. Partial understanding and unidimensional interpretation can prevent learning from failure. Building on a practice perspective, we study an iconic case of strategic failure in Formula 1 racing. Our approach, which integrates the decision maker as well as the organizational and material context , identifies three interrelated sources of strategic failure that are worth investigation for decision - makers using DSS and big data: (1) t he situated nature and affordances of decision - making ; (2) t he distributed nature of cognition in decision - making; and (3) the performativity of the DSS. We outline specific research questions and their implications for firm performance and competitive advantage. Finally, we advance an agenda that can help close timely gaps in strategic IS research

The implementation of the internship as a coursework in teaching and learning vocational education

Internship is one of the common practices of higher education institutions in Malaysia for enhancing the learning experience and technical skills among their students. Students who follow the internship programme are found not only to be able to develop their professional attributes but also have the opportunity to acquire professional networks and career paths. Besides being a conventional approach that links students with real-world employment experience for a programme, internship can also be implemented for a specific course within a programme. The article discusses the implementation of an internship programme as a pedagogical approach in providing experiential learning for a specific course, i.e., Foundation and Concrete Work. This study involved 51 second-year students who were pursuing a degree in vocational education at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Analysis on the impact of the internship experience indicates that the internship programme is an effective pedagogical approach for experiential learning for foundation and concrete work course

The Use of Tacit Knowledge and School Innovation in Malaysia Secondary School

The role of tacit knowledge in fostering organization innovation has increasingly gained interest many researchers. However, previous research dominating in the business sector. This study addresses these limitations by conceptualization in the academic setting. This study used the partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM) tool to test the relationship between the role of tacit knowledge among Malaysia secondary school principals and school innovation. Three types of skills used to measure tacit knowledge; cognitive skills, technical skills and social skills. As to measure school innovation, there are six latent variables; leadership, curriculum, co-curricular, student affairs, financial and structure and culture. Data from a questionnaire survey of 370 respondents from Sekolah Kebangsaan, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) were used to analyze the model. Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the relationships between all the variables and found that social skill was the most significant predictor of tacit knowledge while co-curricular was the most significant predictor to school innovation and the use of tacit knowledge has a significantly smaller impact on school innovation.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v3i1.532

Spirituality in Knowledge Management: Systematic Literature Review and Future Studies Suggestions

Knowledge Management has established itself as key to the competitive advantage of companies in the 21st century. As the mere accumulation of knowledge is insufficient, there is a corresponding need to control and supervise interactions across the organization so as to create organisational value. Thus, understanding how the composition of the main knowledge management constructs and what influences them is especially important. Sharing knowledge, a continuous process and key to creating value, has mutual trust as one of its antecedents. We here consider trust as the amount that a person is willing to impute good intentions and believe in the discourses and actions of others (Cook and Wall, 1980). This research seeks to understand whether spirituality amounts to a factor influencing the confidence and trust necessary for the sharing of organisational knowledge. Studies indeed defend spirituality as a factor promoting trust, feelings of mutuality as well as a factor generating control over negative impulses, for internal improvement, unity and interconnections among organisational members (Pawar, 2017; Tejeda, 2015; Duchon & Plowman, 2005; Mitroff & Denton, 1999). This relationship is both relevant and worthy of deeper exploration as both knowledge management and spirituality are fundamental to creating organisational value. We opted to undertake a systematic review of the literature in order to understand just which links among the constructs feature in the literature. Therefore, we made automatic searches on Web of Knowledge and EBSCO databases. Our results suggest that spirituality positively influences knowledge sharing, because it is a relevant factor itself, either in the actual sharing or indirectly through its influence over knowledge creation. However, we would emphasise that there are almost no articles interlinking these two constructs and hence the need to deepen research into this factor and improve our understanding of its influence in organisations and therefore also propose the application of different methodologies to advance studies on this subject.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio