2004 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37574)

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In the developing countries, universities are the main organizations to conduct research and explore new knowledge that lead to innovation. However, the nature of university research has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that researchers can conduct research projects of their own interest independently, while the disadvantages are inadequate funding, lack of basic knowledge, and ... View full abstract»

To further strategic R&D, the market analysis is a critical process to examine the values of the technologies developed by R&D teams and product portfolio has been used to examine the market positions of technology applications. We have developed the product portfolio browser that enables users to analyze a complex and fast changing market in a chronological and comparative fashion... View full abstract»

Utilizing secondary data, this paper analyzes the mutual-choice social networks for single-loop and double-loop knowledge benefits. Two interesting results are presented. First, we observe that mutual-choice social networks show obvious cluster phenomenon, which are different from one-sided relations shown in original graphs. Mutual-choice relationships require bilateral content of two involved ag... View full abstract»

This article reports the results of an exploratory study in Alpha, a product design solution provider in Singapore. The study was concerned with the interorganizational learning between Alpha and its network environment. By classifying different players involved in Alpha's environment into customers, collaborators and competitors, we argue that while Alpha put itself at a dangerous position in los... View full abstract»

It is important to remain the knowledge in the enterprise as more as possible. How to recognize the value of the knowledge? The useful knowledge must be applied in business process by the staff in enterprise. So, knowledge management includes not only document but also several factors, such as employee, business process. Human is the user of the knowledge. With the proper policy, he will also be a... View full abstract»

Benefit preference and index evaluation on communities of practice (CoP) will profoundly impact on the competitive advantage of knowledge management (KM) total solutions and specific problems. As enterprises grow in size, scope, and complexity, implementation of CoP on members who regularly engage in sharing and learning based on common interests, can improve organizational performance. The purpos... View full abstract»

As a new management style in anticipation of knowledge-driven society, knowledge management, which recognizes knowledge as a core value, has long been discussed. Many Japanese enterprises, however, do not appear to have innovated themselves from the traditional management style based on the industrial society to a knowledge-based management style and organizational behavior. One of the reasons see... View full abstract»

This work focuses on the crucial role of individuals in the process of knowledge generation, transfer, and retention in project-based organization and proposes an alternative perspective of organizational learning framework. Learning motivation is argued to be the most vital antecedent to organizational learning process. By motivationalizing organizational learning, we have the benefit of understa... View full abstract»

This paper investigates an actionable model for sustainable development in the context of a learning organization. Its aim is to tackle the knowledge challenge faced by an organization in today's knowledge economy. Specifically, the paper elaborates the cultural issues of three important knowledge processes (the individual, the social, and the organizational), which the design of information syste... View full abstract»

Managing processes like innovations, collective learning, technology roadmapping and knowledge-creating process in an organization often meet the most difficult task: how to enhance creativity and imagination that are required for future planning among the participants who are involved in complex, unpredictable and diverse situations. In This work, we introduce an approach recently developed in sy... View full abstract»

While looking through the arguments concerning knowledge spillovers in the geographic cluster, most of current literatures consider knowledge spillovers as take-for-granted existence in the industrial cluster, and few authors even explore the sources, contributors and channels of knowledge spillovers. The paper specially pays attention to the mechanisms of knowledge spillovers in traditional indus... View full abstract»