Knowledge Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Benefits

Use of a Wiki as a Radiology Departmental Knowledge Management System

“…Effective knowledge management is key to the strategic success of technical organizations 13 and can often provide the edge in supporting systems in use in mission-critical, clinical environments. A wiki can be an effective tool for technology organizations facing the challenge of supporting the myriad of systems present in most health care environments.…”

Reward systems for intra-organizational knowledge sharing

“…doi:10. 1016/j.ejor.2006.03.052 practitioners (Alavi and Leidner, 1999;King et al, 2002). For example, King et al (2002) report that, from a survey of 2073 KM practitioners and executives, the challenge of ''how to motivate individuals to contribute their knowledge to a KM system'' was cited as one of the top issues in KM.…”

“…To address this issue, it has been emphasized that knowledge sharing should be rewarded through an organization's formal incentive system (Alavi and Leidner, 1999;Ba et al, 2001b;Davenport and Prusak, 1998;Gold et al, 2001). There is much empirical evidence to suggest that organizational reward influences the behavior and performance of an organization's members (e.g., Huber, 1991;Maltz and Kohli, 2000).…”

Developing a prototype information system framework to handle pedagogical knowledge in a secondary school modern foreign languages department

“…They assert that the limitations of ICT-led approaches to cross-project knowledge transfer are explicable in terms of contrasting approaches to knowledge and its creation and manipulation within organisations. This contrast is between the view of knowledge "as a resource that is possessed-by individuals, project teams, organisations or even societies" put forward by Alavi and Leidner (1999), and the "view that knowledge is situated in social and organisational practices and relationships" promulgated by Lam (2000). In this sense, knowledge is embedded in practice.…”