Knowledge management Books

News of the Web's demise has been greatly exaggerated. The Internet continues to impact our lives and how we do business. It has the power to transform entire industries and create new ones, challenge industry leaders, and enable businesses in entirely...

​​Information Strategy Design and Practices develops a framework for designing information technology strategy for an organization. Beyond this, it establishes an approach to not only implement it, but sustain it. The framework explains how IT strategy...

The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011. In netting papers from the...

Information and Process Integration in Enterprises: Rethinking Documents is a bold attempt to address information and process integration issues as a single body of research and practice. This book has identified the concept...

Information Technology (IT) - the field that links computer and communications equipment and software - is transforming the way modern business is done. Examples of factors leading these changes are: rapidly decreasing costs...

Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems deals with the reading, writing and understanding of specifications. The papers presented in this book describe useful and sometimes elegant concepts, good practices (in...

Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method to authenticate and identify individuals. Biometrics requires that the person to be identified be physically present at the...

During the last two decades, there have been many reports about the success and failure of investments in ICT and information systems. Failures in particular have drawn a lot of attention. The outcome of the implementation...

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series. The manuscripts provide examples of implementations of asset information systems as well as some...

This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that...

Single-Layer Cuts for Multi-Layer Network Design Problems.- Optimal Multi-Channel Assignments in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.- The Label-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem.- Ex-Post Internet Charging.- Error Bounds for Hierarchical Routing.- An...

Organisational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Information Systems Research Agenda.- Turning the Digital Divide into a Digital Divident: Some Experiences from Manchester, UK.- Dropping Your Tools: The Diversity of the Research...

to Web-Based Education.- to the Semantic Web.- The Setting for Semantic Web-Based Education.- Architectural Issues.- Learning Technology Standardization Efforts.- Personalization Issues.- Ontological Engineering for Semantic Web-Based Education.-...

Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best...

It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the...

""The Life, Labors and Doctrines of Confucius"" is a book written by Edward Harper Parker in 1897. The book is a comprehensive biography of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, who lived in the 5th century BCE. The author provides a detailed account of...

Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America's leading library administrators on ways to...

Web Programming for Business: PHP Object-Oriented Programming with Oracle focuses on fundamental PHP coding, giving students practical, enduring skills to solve data and technical problems in business. Using Oracle as the backend database, the book...

Nationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information. Accordingly, information technology (IT), broadly defined and its role beyond the internal workings of businesses has leapt into the social...

This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies...

ICT evaluation is a perennial issue and it is likely to remain so. There are a number of different reasons for this and one of the most important is that it is no trivial matter to establish the real costs and the benefits of effectively employing ICT in...

DevOps is on everyone's lips. It is often presented in a very technical way, whether in terms of the methods and frameworks to be used or in terms of techniques and development frameworks. Martin J. Adams is a proven expert on agile approaches,...

Unlocking Success in the Digital Age: Transform Your Law Firm for the FutureIn today's rapidly evolving digital age, it's become crucial for law firms to modernize and adapt to stay ahead of the competition. With advancements in technology and a shift in...

Getting Data Science Done outlines the essential stages in running successful data science projects.Data science is a field that synthesizes statistics, computer science and business analytics to deliver results that can impact almost any type of process...

Everyone is trying to find their meaning and purpose in life. We are becoming more conscious and more intentional with our decisions. Perhaps we have thought about making meaningful choices with food, lifestyle, and overall health, but when it comes to...

Since the early eighties IFIP/Sec has been an important rendezvous for Information Technology researchers and specialists involved in all aspects of IT security. The explosive growth of the Web is now faced with the formidable...

Enterprise data is growing at a much faster rate than traditional technologies allow. New enterprise architectures combining existing technologies are desperately needed. This book suggests a way forward by applying new techniques of the World Wide Web...

Preface. Presentation of the PPR-Model. The Activity and Customer Centric Approach. The Domains and Directions of IT Impacts. Digital Wheel barrows in Local Government. E-government Objectives, Means and Reach. The Organizational Membrane Penetrated...

Social network analysis applications have experienced tremendous advances within the last few years due in part to increasing trends towards users interacting with each other on the internet. Social networks are organized as graphs, and the data on...

Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice comprises the edited proceedings of the WG8.2 conference, "Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research,"...

Many of the issues on which meaningful research is founded are seldom discussed; for example, the role of everyday experience, diversity and coherence of meaning in the world, the meaningfulness and wider mandate of research, the very nature and validity...

Agent-based models are tools that provide researchers in economic fields with unprecedented analytical capabilities. This book describes the power of agent-based models along their methodology, and it provides several examples of applications spanning...

This book offers a unique view of how innovation and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological...

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise and social enterprises are solving some of the most critical and enduring social problems by using innovative, pragmatic and sustainable business models. Access to knowledge thanks to the Internet and rapid...

In this groundbreaking book, Chris F. Kemerer and Rajiv D. Banker present a new approach to performance evaluation metrics for information systems development. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the Sloan School of Management, this book provides...

From its humble beginnings in Germany, SAP skyrocketed to become a global powerhouse and the technology backbone for tens of thousands of enterprises. The economy around it grew even faster, and "SAP Nation" now approaches the GDP of Ireland in size...

Knowledge capital is at the core of the socio-economic global system. Profit and not-for profit firms, institutions, and organizations, in general, face unique opportunities and threats related to knowledge management. Digital technologies and digital...

The next big area within the information and communication technology field is Artificial Intelligence (AI). The industry is moving to automate networks, cloud-based systems (e.g., Salesforce), databases (e.g., Oracle), AWS machine learning (e.g., Amazon...

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations. Digital technology is at the heart of any enterprise today, changing business...

This book presentsstrategies and practices to allow everyday companies to cope with thefundamentally changing landscape of business models and to take advantage ofthe huge business opportunities arising from the advent of big data. Itdevelops several...

After a brief presentation of the state of the art of process-mining techniques, Andrea Burratin proposes different scenarios for the deployment of process-mining projects, and in particular a characterization of companies in terms of their process...

The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and evolution. The focus of the...

This book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and...

The increasing penetration of IT in organizations calls for an integrative perspective on enterprises and their supporting information systems. MERODE offers an intuitive and practical approach to enterprise modelling and using these models as core for...

This book shows the patterns of the fuzzy front end of innovation and how it can be managed successfully. Topics in this book cover traditional instruments and processes such as technology monitoring, market-oriented research management, lead-user...

Are you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts? Would you like to know which agile techniques work, which ones do not matter much, and which ones will harm your projects? Then you need Agile!: the...

In einer Zeit der unterschiedlichsten Netzwerktypen und ihrer herstellerspezifischen Ausprägungen ist die Schaffung von Standards notwendiger denn je. Diese Standards sollen einen gemeinsamen Nenner darstellen, auf den sich die...