A Framework for Understanding the Complementary Roles of Information Systems and Knowledge Management Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Bent Aboulkacem Guetat ◽  
Salem Ben Dhaou Dakhli
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Knowledge is nowadays an essential resource for modern organizations to support sustainable competitive advantage. Many authors point out that as knowledge is created, disseminated, and applied, it contributes to value creation within organizations by enhancing their capabilities to respond to pressures from the external environment. To acknowledge the critical role of knowledge in modern organizations, knowledge management has emerged as a scientific discipline. However, the dominant view of knowledge management is technology-oriented and considers this activity primarily as an integrated approach to identifying, retrieving, capturing, storing and sharing organization's information assets. This mechanistic and technology-oriented view of knowledge management is the main cause of the failure of many knowledge management systems built within modern organizations. It is thought that the well-established technology oriented knowledge management approach has to be improved in order to facilitate building effective knowledge management systems which help modern organizations in their search of continuous and sustainable competitive advantage. This paper proposes a framework - based on the Popper's three worlds' theory - which helps understand the complementary roles of information systems and knowledge management systems.

Stages of Information Systems in E-Government for Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 270-280
Author(s):  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Direction Information

A stage model for knowledge management systems in policing financial crime is developed in this chapter. Stages of growth models enable identification of organizational maturity and direction. Information technology to support knowledge work of police officers is improving. For example, new information systems supporting police investigations are evolving. Police investigation is an information-rich and knowledge-intensive practice. Its success depends on turning information into evidence. This chapter presents an organizing framework for knowledge management systems in policing financial crime. Future case studies will empirically have to illustrate and validate the stage hypothesis developed in this paper.

Semantic Integration of Structured and Unstructured Data in Data Warehousing and Knowledge Management Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 81-105
Author(s):  
Liane Haak
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Data Warehousing ◽  
Semantic Integration ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Application Area ◽  
Ontology Integration ◽  
Basic Ideas

Nowadays, increasing information in enterprises demands new ways of searching and connecting the existing information systems. This chapter describes an approach for the integration of structured and unstructured data focusing on the application to Data Warehousing (DW) and Knowledge Management (KM). Semantic integration is used to improve the interoperability between two well-known and established information systems in the business context of nowadays enterprises. The objective is to introduce a semantic solution in the field of Business Intelligence based on ontology integration. The main focus of this chapter is not to provide a complete literature review of all existing approaches or just to point put the motivation for such an approach. In fact, it presents, under consideration of the most important research approaches, a solution for how a Semantic Integration could be technically achieved in this specific application area. After pointing out the motivation, a short introduction to Semantic Integration, the problems and challenges occurring from it, and the application area of Knowledge Management and Data Warehousing are given. Besides the basic ideas of ontologies and ontology integration are introduced. The approach itself starts with a short overview on the determined requirements, followed by a concept for generating an ontology from a Data Warehouse System (DWS) to be finally integrated with Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) ontology. Finally SENAGATOR, an exemplarily system for semantic navigation based on integrated ontologies, is shortly introduced.

scholarly journals (Neg)Entropic Scenarios Affecting the Wicked Design Spaces of Knowledge Management Systems

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Ulrich Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Science Research ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems

The envisioned embracing of thriving knowledge societies is increasingly compromised by threatening perceptions of information overload, attention poverty, opportunity divides, and career fears. This paper traces the roots of these symptoms back to causes of information entropy and structural holes, invisible private and undiscoverable public knowledge which characterize the sad state of our current knowledge management and creation practices. As part of an ongoing design science research and prototyping project, the article’s (neg)entropic perspectives complement a succession of prior multi-disciplinary publications. Looking forward, it proposes a novel decentralized generative knowledge management approach that prioritizes the capacity development of autonomous individual knowledge workers not at the expense of traditional organizational knowledge management systems but as a viable means to foster their fruitful co-evolution. The article, thus, informs relevant stakeholders about the current unsustainable status quo inhibiting knowledge workers; it presents viable remedial options (as a prerequisite for creating the respective future generative Knowledge Management (KM) reality) to afford a sustainable solution with the generative potential to evolve into a prospective general-purpose technology.

Strategically-Focused Enterprise Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Robert J. Mockler ◽  
Dorothy G. Dologite
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems

This chapter describes the characteristics and types of strategically focused knowledge management systems and the key conditions affecting their development and success. The discussion, which is based around company examples, focuses on various strategic management uses of these systems. The knowledge management process is designed to increase profitability and competitive advantage in the marketplace.

MEASURING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TO THE STRATEGIC COMPETITIVENESS OF ORGANIZATIONS: A REVIEW AND A MODEL

2010 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIE GEISLER
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Intermediate Outcomes ◽  
Stage Process ◽  
The Relationship

Why and how do Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) contribute to the strategic competitiveness of organizations? This paper reviews the literature and proposes a model in which KMS is viewed from three different perspectives: (1) crucial resource; (2) driver of absorptive capacity; and (3) innovation adopted by the organization. The paper critiques the method used by KMS researchers whereby co-variation of KMS and competitiveness is utilized to study the relationship between these variables. The model proposed here is a multi-stage process. The successful use of KMS generates intermediate outcomes that in turn impact the organization and produces improved strategic competitiveness. The different approaches to KMS and the stage-process allow for the unique attributes of knowledge systems, different from information systems. The advantages and limitations of the model are discussed.

Ontology

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Syed Raiyan Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Library Users

Library requires mighty technologies to support, sort and categorize information in the shortest span of time for better knowledge-tasks and decision-making. Ontology is one of the needs and adroitness which helps library users in acquiring better standardized vocabulary, better routes and better search. The chapter discusses how ontology libraries can process as a connection in modifying versatile users and diligence to reveal, judge, utilize, and disseminate the information overload. The Ontology–based Information Systems (IS) and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) helps cognitive process of reaching a decision which are used to draw out user information and fuzzy ontologies are applied to store the accumulated knowledge.

Strategically-Focused Enterprise Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 1216-1222
Author(s):  
Robert J. Mockler ◽  
Dorothy G. Dologite
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems

This chapter describes the characteristics and types of strategically focused knowledge management systems and the key conditions affecting their development and success. The discussion, which is based around company examples, focuses on various strategic management uses of these systems. The knowledge management process is designed to increase profitability and competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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