Company Management Improvement Using Electronic Tools for Analysis of Employees’ Feedback

The paper considers the importance of the proper human capital management for the success of organisations in the knowledge society. It provides theoretical background for human resources management and the approaches applied for ensuring employees’ commitment and motivation. On this base is proposed a new electronic tool as an extension of existing human resource management software with the objective to collect objective and subjective feedback from employees needed for the proper human resource strategy

Bridging the Digital Divide in South-Eastern Europe

The main aim of the paper is to raise some issues related to the access and usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in South-Eastern Europe. It is based on the results of a recent project and highlights the trends and the remaining challenges for ICT development in the region. A short review is made on the changes in the concept of Digital Divide with the time, and in particular on the most recent understanding about the need for facilitating access and usage of information and knowledge, and their usage for the competitiveness of the industry

Knowledge Management Training at Universities

The paper will focus on four topics: It will initially consider knowledge management (KM) challenges and benefits. Second, it will present the approach for building KM curricula within the project TRAINMOR KNOWMORE. It will outline the project experience and the results of the needs analysis carried out. In addition, the paper will highlight the practical experience at 3 universities in Bulgaria and outline the further challenges for research and education. On this basis will be discussed KM integration in university programs – at which level, which emphasis, necessary background of the students. Finally, KM importance for T-shaped specialists will be included in the concluding remarks of the paper

A note on organizational learning and knowledge sharing in the context of communities of practice

Please, cite this publication as: Antonova, A. & Gourova, E. (2006). A note on organizational learning and knowledge sharing in the context of communities of practice. Proceedings of International Workshop in Learning Networks for Lifelong Competence Development, TENCompetence Conference. September 12th, Sofia, Bulgaria: TENCompetence. Retrieved June 30th, 2006, from http://dspace.learningnetworks.orgThe knowledge management (KM) literature emphasizes the impact of human factors for successful implementation of KM within the organization. Isolated initiatives for promoting learning organization and team collaboration, without taking consideration of the knowledge sharing limitations and constraints can defeat further development of KM culture. As an effective instrument for knowledge sharing, communities of practice (CoP) are appearing to overcome these constraints and to foster human collaboration.This work has been sponsored by the EU project TENCompetenc

Knowledge management and learning in the organizational context

In the last decades, learning and knowledge have become key success factors for international competitiveness with the result that intangible and immaterial resources have overtaken physical and tangible assets in order of importance. The introduction of knowledge management (KM) practices and initiatives has provided companies with new opportunities to maximize the value of the knowledge they possess. It has helped as well to increase their capacity to learn and adapt quicker to the environment and to react pro-actively to the changes, performing better than competitors. Learning easier and faster has become one of the key challenges in this new context, putting a special accent on knowledge acquisition, on the speed of reaction and the application of the newly acquired competences and skills. The process of learning now is centered on acquiring new practical oriented skills. Knowledge workers are expected to devote efforts to continuously up-date their qualification, skills and knowledge, manifesting new and better ideas, resulting in better decision making. The only limited resource now is the time – time for learning and for adaptation to the constant changes. The present paper focuses on KM and learning in organizations. It introduces the concepts of tacit and explicit knowledge, considers organizational learning and knowledge workers specifics. In the centre of the paper are the issues of complementarity between KM and learning. The integrity between KM and e-learning is highlighted on the bases of case-study research of KM technologies usage in companies

Some Methodological Aspects of the Development of an ICT Research and Technology Development and Innovation Strategy for a Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics

The aim of this paper is to share the experience gained at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (SU), in the up to now work within the scope of a project funded by the Capacities Specific Programme of FP7. At the first call for proposals of this Programme in 2007 the EC provided a grant to the project SISTER of SU, aimed at strengthening the research capacity of FMI in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The main goal of SISTER project is to develop FMI as a Leading Centre in South-East Europe (SEE) in research, innovation and training in the area of ICT. An overall goal of the project is to foster the integration of FMI in the ICT European Research Area (ERA) and to contribute to competitiveness and growth of the SEE region and Europe as a whole

REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTi

The present paper focuses on Knowledge Management (KM) as a new managerial discipline emerging in the last few years of the 20th century. The main emphasis of the paper is on the technological solutions applied in the organizations at different stages of the KM life cycle. It makes a classification of the types of technologies described in the theory and practice based on the main KM processes. Finally, are presented survey data on the real application of various knowledge management technologies in the organizations

Insight into challenges for researchers and Universities in Bulgaria

The paper presents the results of studies carried out recently among Bulgarian stakeholders to investigate the career and mobility of researchers, as well as problems in industry-academia collaboration. The methodological approach is inspired by the FP7 E*CARE and SISTER projects of Sofia University. The paper presents some general issues for research and innovation landscape in Bulgaria, and outlines the case of Technical University of Sofia

Преглед на технологични решения за управление на знания

The present paper focuses on a new managerial discipline emerging in the last few years of the 20th century. At the beginning are introduced some basic concepts used in the theory and practice of Knowledge Management, and are presented the benefits for utilization of Knowledge management. The main emphasis of the paper is on the technological solutions applied in the organizations at different stages of the knowledge management life cycle, whereas a summary is made of the types of technologies described in the theory and practice. Finally, are presented survey data on the real application of various knowledge management technologies in the organization

Building skills for the knowledge society

The present paper takes into account the skills sets needed for the knowledge society, and the focus on ICT and e-business skills, innovation and knowledge management in organizations. It highlights the related challenges for learning providers, and in particular for regularly updating the higher education curricula and programs according to the labor market needs. The paper outlines two practical examples for provision of up-to-date training. The first one is related to designing knowledge management curricula based on a survey made in 7 European countries. As a second example is highlighted the case of Sofia University - CIST and its success in becoming a working model of university-industry-government cooperation in education, research and innovation