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Portrait of Success : Collaborative Tools Ease Communications, Build Knowledge |
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Collaboration is a motivational tool for organizations, and software that eases the collaborative process is sought by companies to enrich their business procedures, as well as their businesses. Many corporations are finding that collaborative technology tools enhance the processes that are essential to them--such as new product development, human resources functions and other tasks that are routinely performed in companies. They enhance communication within and outside the organization. Here are some case studies.
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Analysis & assessment | Organizational culture | Software & tools | Knowledge sharing |
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Digital Government : Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information |
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Laura Gordon-Murnane reviews FirstGov.gov and American FactFinder, two tools designed to provide access to a wide range of government information now available electronically. Each of these new government Web tools has been designed to help end users find answers to specific questions. How well these tools deliver on this goal is the subject for discussion.
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Software & tools | Policy and programs |
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KM Infrastructure and Tools – How can your KM effort be supported ? |
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The European Knowledge Management Forum has been running a series of monthly theme-based communities about different issues that effect knowledge management. The seventh theme-based community is addressing the issue of knowledge management infrastructure and tools. Many presentations are available online such as “Case Study – KM tools and infrastructure supporting a business process”, “KM methodologies driving KM technology requirements for the future”, “Knowledge Management Applications at Pirelli Tires”, “Evaluation of an Ontology-based Knowledge Sharing System”.
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Analysis & assessment | Software & tools | Knowledge sharing | Methodology |
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Online Community Toolkit |
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Thinking about building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? The following is a collection of articles by Full Circle. Topics are: Building Community, Courses, Facilitation, Case Studies, Content, Guidelines, Marketing, Small Business.
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Community of practice | Software & tools |
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A New Approach to Assessing Benchmarking Progress |
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This article is provided by the American Productivity and Quality Center and deals with the Benchmarking Maturity Matrix, “a newly developed model that demonstrates the maturity of 11 key elements developed from five core focus areas: management culture, focal point, processes, tools, and results.”
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Benchmarking | Software & tools | Methodology |
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Justifying Your CI Budget to Management - What is the ROI? |
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This article by Ian Smith for the CEO Refresher, highlights the main arguments to justify a competitive-intelligence budget and why it should be increased in times of rapid change in your industry. According to Mr. Smith, the majority of small businesses at the present time justify their money spent based on: training of new employees, the necessary tools for the profession and analysis.
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Software & tools | Strategic planning |
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Increased Competitive Advantage through the Combination of E-Business and Business Intelligence Tools |
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This white paper examines the consequences and opportunities that arise from the convergence of two major technologies: 1) Business intelligence tools – technology that allows decision makers in an organization to access, analyze, and share corporate information 2) E-business applications – using the internet as the basis for interacting with customers, suppliers, and other business partners. This paper describes some practical, real-life examples of e-business intelligence applications and their role in the overall e-business plans of the organization.
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Software & tools | Competitive intelligence | Strategic planning |
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Bringing Data to Your CI Unit |
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This article by David McAmis explains the necessary steps needed to establish a system to deliver data to be used for competitive intelligence purposes by means of a portal. According to the author, a corporate intranet provides a low-cost alternative to purchasing and installing client software on each PC in your organization and it also provides a distribution method for reports that help to share with, customers and other relevant business partners outside an organization, through an extranet or Internet site.
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Software & tools | Knowledge sharing | Competitive intelligence |
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KMWORLD 2001 Presentations |
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This page from Infotoday features links to Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at KMWorld 2001, held on October 29 - November 1, 2001 in California. The main themes of this year edition were: KM Strategies, processes and models; KM Tools and technology; KM and Content Management; Culture and KM; E-Business, E-Government and KM.
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Organizational culture | Content management | Software & tools | Knowledge management strategy |
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The Human Factor |
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Interview with Nick Bontis, director of the Institute for Intellectual Capital Research Inc., realized by Chuleenan Svetvilas for the webzine IntelligentKM. The main issues of this interviews are the actual state of knowledge management in companies, progress engendered by CKO's hiring, use of tools to acquire knowledge with the perfection of search engine, the resistance of the employees to shared knowledge and main obstacles to be surmounted to lead eventually a good strategy of management of knowledge.
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Organizational culture | Chief knowledge officer | Software & tools | Knowledge sharing | Knowledge management strategy | Intellectual capital |
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