Knowledge Economy and the Necessity of Knowledge Management

This paper tries to present an existing relation between knowledge economy and knowledge management. We started by emphasizing the main principles of knowledge society and the consequences that determine the movement to a new economical paradigm. Further, we discussed organization competitiveness as being a critical success factor for modern organizations. At last we described the link between knowledge and sustainable competitiveness and presented knowledge management as the perfect “recipe” to obtain it.competitiveness, knowledge management, knowledge society, knowledge economy, sustainable, KM activities

Analysis of Organizational Cultural Profile Gaps Using a Cultural Intelligence Web-Based Tool

The performances of the companies involved in the globalization process are conditioned by their managers’ abilities to understand the cultural differences of their stakeholders, to assess the cultural profiles of their business partners and to promote the cultural synergy. Our paper emphasizes the results of a survey that we undertook in the field of Cultural Intelligence (CQ), by analyzing two cultural profiles from a Romanian company and a Tunisian one, using a CQ web-based platform. The answers provided by a sample of employees of each company were processed by the means of the CQ platform facilities. The cultural profiles assessment reveals the cultural gaps between two companies involved in the same type of activities but belonging to different countries and implicitly cultures.cultural intelligence; gap; cultural profile; cross-cultural; globalization.

The Impact of the Cross-Cultural Factors on Getting the Management Performances within AKER Multinational Company

Our paper approaches the aspects connected to the analysis of the values’ system specific to the AKER multinational group, world leader on the market targets represented by cruises and ferryboats, commercial ships and offshore platforms. The case study was developed at Aker Tulcea subsidiary, component of AKER multinational group. We proposed to identify the cultural profile of this firm, on the basis of the organizational cultures pattern elaborated by G. Hofstede. In this way, we conceived a questionnaire addressed to a number of 20 middle managers, in view to analyze the cross-cultural influence upon the performances of this organization. The results obtained during our research revealed that Aker Tulcea subsidiary assumed the values promoted by AKER multinational group, fact which led at the efficient management of the cultural differences and the creation of the premises in order to obtain organizational performances.cross-cultural; performance; cultural values; motivation; rewards, cultural differences.

The planning of a Customer Relationship Management project: requirements and opportunities

After a brief presentation of the aspects regarding the planning of a customer relationship management (CRM) project, we emphasize the factors that assure the success of such an approach. In order to obtain the attended results, an organization needs the best selection of the project manager and the most efficient teamwork, which implies employees from the company’s departments and also IT specialists. In the final part, we made appreciations concerning the efficiency of a CRM project and the opportunities created by its implementation.customer relationship management, business strategies

The Impact of the New Information and Communication Technologies on the Performance Control Indicators System

Our paper emphasizes the way in which the information and communication technologies offer a real support to the managers which have a global vision on the key factors that assure business performances. The simulation of a Total Performance Scorecard reveals the advantages and opportunities of the software - Balanced Scorecard Designer in the determination of the project efficiency, based on four integrated dimensions: financial perspective, customers’ perspective, internal business perspective and organizational learning.Balanced Scorecard, performance control, strategy, organizational learning

Perspectives on knowledge management models

The purpose of this paper is to present the way some widely used knowledge management models are structured. We will describe the most important characteristics of each model, with our comments about its usefulness in the economical environment. The models we chose to analyze are as follow: von Krogh and Roos, Nonaka/Takeuchi, Wiig, Boisot and Bennet. We will discuss about main factors involved, about types of knowledge and elements which forms it and of course about advantages and disadvantages of these models. The paper will end with a general conclusion, which will largely synthesize our conclusions about each knowledge model.knowledge, model, cognitive, epistemological, tacit, explicit, internalization, adaptive, assets, efficiency, forecasts, measures, dimensions

Innovation Seeking Strategy of IT Outsourcing on e-Europe

In this paper, we emphasize the opportunities concerning the implementation of an intelligence receptive organizational culture, that allows the fast and flexible response of companies’ strategies in the competitive e-business. Due to the promotion of an an intelligence receptive culture, e-Europe software companies start to see the Romanian IT firms as extremely attractive targets for outsourcing projects that suppose not only NOT the creation of specialized software, but also the overtaking of maintenance or suppoert services. The creation of a website designed to facilitate the outsourcing projects will assure the increase of the Romanian IT companies’ visibility in e-Europe.outsourcing, information technology, website, intelligence receptive culture, e-Europe

Finite element formulation of general boundary conditions for incompressible flows

We study the finite element formulation of general boundary conditions for incompressible flow problems. Distinguishing between the contributions from the inviscid and viscid parts of the equations, we use Nitsche's method to develop a discrete weighted weak formulation valid for all values of the viscosity parameter, including the limit case of the Euler equations. In order to control the discrete kinetic energy, additional consistent terms are introduced. We treat the limit case as a (degenerate) system of hyperbolic equations, using a balanced spectral decomposition of the flux Jacobian matrix, in analogy with compressible flows. Then, following the theory of Friedrich's systems, the natural characteristic boundary condition is generalized to the considered physical boundary conditions. Several numerical experiments, including standard benchmarks for viscous flows as well as inviscid flows are presented

Knowledge Economy and the Necessity of Knowledge Management

This paper tries to present an existing relation between knowledge economy and knowledge management. We started by emphasizing the main principles of knowledge society and the consequences that determine the movement to a new economical paradigm. Further, we discussed organization competitiveness as being a critical successfactor for modern organizations. At last we described the link between knowledge and sustainable competitiveness and presented knowledge management as the perfect “recipe” to obtain it

AXISYMMETRIC BI-PROPELLANT AIR AUGMENTED ROCKET TESTING WITH ANNULAR CAVITY MIXING ENHANCEMENT

Performance characterization was undertaken for an air augmented rocket mixing duct with annular cavity configurations intended to produce thrust augmentation. Three mixing duct geometries and a fully annular cavity at the exit of the nozzle were tested to enable thrust comparisons. The rocket engine used liquid ethanol and gaseous oxygen, and was instrumented with sensors to output total thrust, mixing duct thrust, combustion chamber pressure, and propellant differential pressures across Venturi flow measurement tubes. The rocket engine was tested to thrust maximum, with three different mixing ducts, three major combustion pressure sets, and a nozzle exit plane annular cavity (a grooved ring). The combustion pressures tested were , , and allowing for a nozzle pressure ratio range of relative to ambient pressure. The mixture ratio was fuel rich throughout all tests. The engine operated very consistently throughout all the tests performed; however, pressure losses in the feed system prevented higher combustion pressures from being tested. Three mixing ducts of the same outer diameter were tested. The short and diverging ducts were the same length and the long duct was long. The short and long ducts created positive mixing duct thrust and the diverging duct created negative mixing duct thrust. The long duct case did show better performance than the no duct case when the total thrust was divided by combustion pressure and nozzle throat area. The long duct always created several times more mixing duct thrust than either the short or diverging ducts, but none of the mixing ducts created positive overall thrust augmentation in the over expanded cases tested. The mixing duct thrusts ranged between and . As the combustion pressures were increased, getting closer the nozzle’s optimal expansion, the mixing duct thrusts started converging indicating a difference between nozzle operation at over expanded and under expanded. The annular cavity had a noticeable effect on the thrust of the engine and the appearance of the plume. The total thrust of the system was decreased by a maximum of and the plume was more sharply defined when the annular cavity was attached. Better mixing between the primary (engine exhaust) flow and the secondary (ambient air) flow was promoted by the annular cavity because it increased the shear layer’s turbulence and the increased turbulence reduced thrust. The greater mixing also allowed for secondary combustion which made the plumes more sharply defined. The annular cavity was also seen to enhance the mixing duct thrusts for all three mixing ducts