Ronald Maier Boeken

Information and knowledge have fundamentally transformed the way business and social institutions work. Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations to provide an environment supportive of knowledge generation, sharing and application. Information and communication technology (ICT) is often regarded as the enabler for the effective and especially the efficient implementation of knowledge management. The book presents an almost encyclopedic treatise of the many important facets, concepts and theories that have influenced knowledge management and integrates them into a general knowledge management framework consisting of strategy, organization, systems and economics. The book also contains the state of practice of knowledge management on the basis of a comprehensive empirical study, and concludes with four scenarios of the successful application of ICT in knowledge management initiatives.

This book explores various facets and theories of knowledge management, updating the second edition to include recent developments in ICT. It enhances theoretical foundations, discusses process-oriented challenges, introduces a chapter on modeling, and contrasts centralized and distributed knowledge management architectures.

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to design and implement such an environment. It develops the vision of a modular, yet highly integrated enterprise knowledge infrastructure and presents an idealized architecture replete with current technologies and systems. The most important streams of technological development that are covered in the book are communication, collaboration, document and content management, e-learning, enterprise portals, business process management, information life cycle management, information retrieval and visualization, knowledge management, mobile computing, application and network infrastructure, Semantic Web and social software. It includes learning goals, exercises and case examples that help the reader to easily understand and practice the concepts.

Das Buch bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme der Datenmodellierung in ihrem organisatorischen Umfeld. Der Autor entwickelt ein Konzept zur Sicherung und Beurteilung der Datenmodellierung mit konkreten Empfehlungen für die Gestaltung und Organisation in der Praxis.