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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Knowledge processes"”.
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Exploring Knowledge Processes for Technology Assimilation
<p>In the emerging knowledge society, the ability to make the experience and expertise of those involved in and affected by new technology unconditionally available to all members of an organization is becoming increasingly important. One of the problems in developing such knowledge processes for …
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Knowledge processes and capabilities in project-based organizations
… lies in their ability to integrate different knowledge bases and expertise in novel ways. Projects, though, are temporary in nature and this has consequences for the organization that uses them as a business strategy to improve its efficiency. Project-based organizations are representative of …
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Managing knowledge in times of organizational re-structuring
This thesis is located within the area of Knowledge Management and focuses on enhancing the transfer of knowledge. The research investigated how organisations manage knowledge in times of major restructuring. The research used Action Research to establish a collaborative partnership with the client …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… interests, prior experiences, and existing knowledge in new and familiar meaning-making experiences with texts, have been found to dominate multiliteracies second language instruction, often at the expense of activities that involve conceptualizing, analyzing, and applying. Recent analyses …
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A Framework for knowledge-based diagnosis and improvement planning of business processes.
… is the design and evaluation of a framework for knowledge based diagnosis and improvement planning of business processes. The outcome is a soundly based framework that can provide additional leverage within organisations. The study starts from identification of a research gap concerning the …
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Information modeling in mechanical design: with application to cam mechanical design
… practice requires designers to incorporate knowledge, processes and skills to produce a superior product. Each stage of the product realization process requires that the designer utilize available resources to make sound engineering decisions in a timely manner. Much of the research on …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… to identify and overcome barriers to potential knowledge transfer and collaboration between Western and Indigenous worldviews regarding our human relationship with more-than-human nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority and …
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Legacy Information Systems: A Case Study on the Impact of Student Information System Replacement and Stakeholder Experiences in a South African Higher Education Institution
… university’s broader digital transformation and knowledge management efforts. It explores how modernising outdated systems can improve efficiency, strengthen institutional capacity, and better prepare the university to operate in an environment marked by social and economic constraints and …
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Knowing through narratives: the role of knowledge within the technological innovation process in the UK upstream oil and gas industry.
… was to further understanding of the role of knowledge and knowledge-based processes within the process of technological innovation within the UK upstream oil and gas industry. The scope of the research encompassed three groups of actors within the innovation process: technology providers, …
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Development and Implementation of IT-Enabled Business Processes: A Knowledge Structure View
… must continue to evolve their business processes in order to survive. Increasingly, firms are developing new IT-enabled business processes in response to rising competition, greater customer expectations, and challenging economic conditions. The success rate of these projects remains low …
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Knowledge strategies for managers in a networked world
… the effort needed to share and create knowledge is increasing greatly. Transformation from Industrial Age to Information Age organizations is not simple. But there are strategies managers can use and emulate, to make their organizations more successful in sharing and creating new …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… to understand formal and informal ayurvedic knowledge and practice through the framework of commodification, in the context of the recent emergence of global ayurvedic tourism in Kerala, India. The objective was to understand how commodification, both old and new, have affected knowledges and …
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Balance of Power: Designing operational practices for balancing electricity markets with growing penetrations of renewable energy
… practices such as grid codes, system operator processes and, in jurisdictions with wholesale competition, electricity markets. In this thesis, I explore how policy-makers should approach designing operational practices for balancing electricity markets. Because the design process is complex, …
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"Knowing Where I Am At": The Experience of Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose for People with Non-Insulin-Requiring Type 2 Diabetes.
… Findings are discussed in relation to personal knowledge processes (Sweeny, 1994) and related SMBG research. Participants concluded that routine SMBG is essential to maintaining and restraining health behavior. This study provides a model for use of SMBG in diabetes selfmanagement and patient …
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Information Technology and Wealth: Cybernetics, History and Economics
<p>Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high information access because of a major advance in information technology--the press. Where the technology was not controlled by the "powers that be" there was economic growth and a shift in the …
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A Component and Process Analysis of the Impact of Enhanced Self-Instructional Packets on Behavioral Programming
… To account for any difference may be found in knowledge processes the extent, flexibility, and speed of verbal knowledge were assessed. Results showed that MT-IRAP was successful in measuring flexibility when participants deliberately responded incorrect to Dunce items and correct to Einstein …
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The viability of IS enhanced knowledge sharing in mission-critical command and control centers
Engineering processes such as the maintenance of mission-critical infrastructures are highly unpredictable processes that are vital for everyday life, as well as for national security goals. These processes are categorized as Emergent Knowledge Processes (EKP), organizational processes that are …
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Genetic epistemology and the sociology of knowledge
… in certain shortcomings in the sociology of knowledge and in sociological theory generally. Among such shortcomings are: an unnecessarily restricted conception of knowledge, the neglect of contemporary findings in biology and psychology, and the oversocialized conception of humankind and …
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The knowledge evolution framework : a knowledge management perspective on the impact of knowledge segregation on product development projects
… no individual within a project has 'lull" knowledge about the project and its current state of development. In other words, the information and knowledge is segregated to different parts of the project organization. This research proposes a shift towards a knowledge-evolution paradigm and …
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