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• Assess the role of knowledge management and
knowledge management programs in business.
• Describe the types of systems used for enterprise-wide knowledge management and demonstrate
how they provide value for organizations.
• Describe the major types of knowledge worksystems and assess how they provide value forfirms.
• Evaluate the business benefits of using intelligent
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Problem: Document-intensive research anddevelopment dependent on paper records
Solutions: Electronic document managementsystem stores research information digitally
eLab Notebook documentum managementsoftware creates PDFs, enables digital signatures,embeds usage rights, enables digital searching oflibrary
Demonstrates IT’s role in reducing cost by
making organizational knowledge more easilyavailable
Illustrates how an organization can become moreefficient and profitable through content
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• Sales of enterprise content management
software for knowledge managementexpected to grow 15 percent annuallythrough 2012
• Information Economy
• 55% U.S. labor force: knowledge and
information workers• 60% U.S. GDP from knowledge and
information sectors
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• Substantial part of a firm’s stock market
value is related to intangible assets:knowledge, brands, reputations, andunique business processes
• Knowledge-based projects can produceextraordinary ROI
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Enterprise knowledge management software includes sales of contentmanagement and portal licenses, which have been growing at a rate of
15 percent annually, making it among the fastest-growing softwarea lications.
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• Important dimensions of knowledge
•Knowledge is a firm asset
•Intangible
•Creation of knowledge from data,
information, requires organizationalresources
•As it is shared, experiences network
effects
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•Knowledge has different forms
•May be explicit (documented) ortacit (residing in minds)
•Know-how, craft, skill•How to follow procedure
•Knowing why things happen(causality)
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•Knowledge has a location
•Cognitive event
•Both social and individual
•“Sticky” (hard to move), situated(enmeshed in firm’s culture), contextual
(works only in certain situations)•Knowledge is situational
•Conditional: Knowing when to apply
procedure•Contextual: Knowing circumstances to
use certain tool
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• To transform information into
knowledge, firm must expendadditional resources to discoverpatterns, rules, and contexts where
knowledge works
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• Wisdom: Collective and individualexperience of applying knowledge to solve
problems• Involves where, when, and how to apply
knowledge
• Knowing how to do things effectively andefficiently in ways other organizationscannot duplicate is primary source of profitand competitive advantage that cannotbe purchased easily by competitors
•E.g., Having a unique build-to-orderproduction system
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• Organizational learning
•Process in which organizations learn
•Gain experience through collection ofdata, measurement, trial and error, andfeedback
•Adjust behavior to reflect experience
•Create new business processes
•Change patterns of managementdecision making
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• Knowledge management: Set of businessprocesses developed in an organization tocreate, store, transfer, and apply
knowledge
• Knowledge management value chain:
•Each stage adds value to raw data and
information as they are transformed intousable knowledge
•Knowledge acquisition
•Knowledge storage
•Knowledge dissemination
•Knowledge application13
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•Knowledge acquisition
•Documenting tacit and explicit
knowledge•Storing documents, reports,
presentations, best practices
•Unstructured documents (e.g., e-mails)
•Developing online expert networks
•Creating knowledge•Tracking data from TPS and external
sources
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•Knowledge storage
•Databases
•Document management systems•Role of management:
•Support development of planned
knowledge storage systems•Encourage development of
corporate-wide schemas for indexingdocuments
•Reward employees for taking time toupdate and store documentsproperly
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•Knowledge dissemination
•Portals
•Push e-mail reports•Search engines
•Collaboration tools
•A deluge of information?
•Training programs, informal networks,
and shared managementexperience help managers focusattention on important information
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•Knowledge application
•To provide return on investment,
organizational knowledge mustbecome systematic part ofmanagement decision making and
become situated in decision-supportsystems
•New business practices
•New products and services•New markets
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Knowledge management today involves both informationsystems activities and a host of enabling management andorganizational activities.
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• New organizational roles and responsibilities
• Chief knowledge officer executives
• Dedicated staff / knowledge managers• Communities of practice (COPs)
• Informal social networks of professionalsand employees within and outside firm whohave similar work-related activities andinterests
• Activities include education, online
newsletters, sharing experiences andtechniques
• Facilitate reuse of knowledge, discussion
• Reduce learning curves of new employees19
Th j t f k l d t
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• Three major types of knowledge management
systems:
• Enterprise-wide knowledge management
systems• General-purpose firm-wide efforts to collect,
store, distribute, and apply digital content and
knowledge
• Knowledge work systems (KWS)• Specialized systems built for engineers,
scientists, other knowledge workers charged
with discovering and creating new knowledge
• Intelligent techniques• Diverse group of techniques such as data
mining used for various goals: discovering
knowledge, distilling knowledge, discovering
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There are three major categories of knowledgemanagement systems, and each can be broken downfurther into more specialized types of knowledge
management systems.
Th j t f k l d i
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• Three major types of knowledge inenterprise
• Structured documents
• Reports, presentations
• Formal rules
• Semi-structured documents• E-mails, videos
• Unstructured, tacit knowledge
• 80% of an organization’s business content issemi-structured or unstructured
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E t i id t t t
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• Enterprise-wide content managementsystems
• Help capture, store, retrieve, distribute,preserve
• Documents, reports, best practices
• Semi-structured knowledge (e-mails)• Bring in external sources
• News feeds, research
• Tools for communication andcollaboration
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An enterprise content management system has capabilitiesfor classifying, organizing, and managing structured and
semi-structured knowledge and making it availablethrou hout the enter rise
E t i id t t t
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• Enterprise-wide content managementsystems
• Key problem – Developing taxonomy• Knowledge objects must be tagged
with categories for retrieval
• Digital asset management systems• Specialized content management
systems for classifying, storing,
managing unstructured digital data• Photographs, graphics, video, audio
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K l d t k t
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• Knowledge network systems
•Provide online directory of corporateexperts in well-defined knowledgedomains
•Use communication technologies tomake it easy for employees to find
appropriate expert in a company
•May systematize solutions developed byexperts and store them in knowledge
database•Best-practices
•Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
repository 26
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A knowledge networkmaintains a database of
firm experts, as well asaccepted solutions toknown problems, and thenfacilitates the
communication betweenemployees looking forknowledge and expertswho have that knowledge.Solutions created in thiscommunication are thenadded to a database ofsolutions in the form ofFAQs, best practices, or
other documents.
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• Major knowledge management systemvendors include powerful portal andcollaboration technologies
•Portal technologies: Access to externalinformation•News feeds, research
•Access to internal knowledgeresources
•Collaboration tools
•E-mail•Discussion groups•Blogs•Wikis•Social bookmarkin 28
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• Learning management systems
•Provide tools for management, delivery,
tracking, and assessment of various typesof employee learning and training
•Support multiple modes of learning
•CD-ROM, Web-based classes, onlineforums, live instruction, etc.
•Automates selection and administration
of courses
•Assembles and delivers learning content
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• Read the Interactive Session: Management, and
then discuss the following questions:• How do Web 2.0 tools help companies
manage knowledge, coordinate work, and
enhance decision making?
• What business problems do blogs, wikis, andother social networking tools help solve?
• Describe how a company such as Wal-Mart or
Proctor & Gamble would benefit from usingWeb 2.0 tools internally.
• What challenges do companies face in
spreading the use of Web 2.0? What issues
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Knowledge work systems
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• Knowledge work systems•Systems for knowledge workers to help
create new knowledge and ensure that
knowledge is properly integrated intobusiness
• Knowledge workers
•Researchers, designers, architects,scientists, and engineers who createknowledge and information for the
organization
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•Three key roles:•Keeping organization current in
knowledge•Serving as internal consultants
regarding their areas of expertise
•Acting as change agents, evaluating,initiating, and promoting changeprojects
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Requirements of knowledge work systems
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• Requirements of knowledge work systems
•Substantial computing power forgraphics, complex calculations
•Powerful graphics, and analytical tools
•Communications and document
management capabilities•Access to external databases
•User-friendly interfaces
•Optimized for tasks to be performed(design engineering, financial analysis)
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Requirements of Knowledge Work Systems
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Knowledge work systems require strong links to externalknowledge bases in addition to specialized hardware andsoftware.
Requirements of Knowledge Work Systems
• Examples of knowledge work systems
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• Examples of knowledge work systems
• CAD (computer-aided design): Automates
creation and revision of engineering or
architectural designs, using computers andsophisticated graphics software
• Virtual reality systems: Software and special
hardware to simulate real-life environments
•E.g. 3-D medical modeling for surgeons
•VRML: Specifications for interactive, 3D
modeling over Internet
• Investment workstations: Streamline investmentprocess and consolidate internal, external data
for brokers, traders, portfolio managers
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• Intelligent techniques: Used to capture individual
and collective knowledge and to extend
knowledge base
• To capture tacit knowledge: Expert systems,
case-based reasoning, fuzzy logic
• Knowledge discovery: Neural networks anddata mining
• Generating solutions to complex problems:
Genetic algorithms
• Automating tasks: Intelligent agents
• Artificial intelligence (AI) technology:
• Computer-based systems that emulate human
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• Expert systems:
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• Expert systems:
•Capture tacit knowledge in very specific
and limited domain of human expertise•Capture knowledge of skilled employees
as set of rules in software system that can
be used by others in organization•Typically perform limited tasks that may
take a few minutes or hours, e.g.:
•Diagnosing malfunctioning machine
•Determining whether to grant credit for
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An expert system contains a number of rules to be followed. The rulesare interconnected; the number of outcomes is known in advance and islimited; there are multiple paths to the same outcome; and the system
can consider multiple rules at a single time. The rules illustrated are forsim le credit- rantin ex ert s stems.
• How expert systems work
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• How expert systems work
•Knowledge base: Set of hundreds orthousands of rules
• Inference engine: Strategy used tosearch knowledge base
•Forward chaining: Inference enginebegins with information entered by userand searches knowledge base to arriveat conclusion
•Backward chaining: Begins withhypothesis and asks user questions until
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An inference engine works by searching through the rules and “firing”those rules that are triggered by facts gathered and entered by the user.A collection of rules is similar to a series of nested IF statements in atraditional software system; however the magnitude of the statementsand degree of nesting are much greater in an expert system
• Successful expert systems
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• Successful expert systems
• Countrywide Funding Corporation in
Pasadena, California, uses expert system to
improve decisions about granting loans• Con-Way Transportation built expert system to
automate and optimize planning of overnight
shipment routes for nationwide freight-trucking
business• Most expert systems deal with problems of
classification
• Have relatively few alternative outcomes
• Possible outcomes are known in advance• Many expert systems require large, lengthy, and
expensive development and maintenance efforts
• Hiring or training more experts may be less
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• Case-based reasoning (CBR)
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Case based reasoning (CBR)
• Descriptions of past experiences of human
specialists, represented as cases, stored in
knowledge base• System searches for stored cases with problem
characteristics similar to new one, finds closest
fit, and applies solutions of old case to new
case• Successful and unsuccessful applications are
grouped with case
• Stores organizational intelligence: Knowledge
base is continuously expanded and refined byusers
• CBR found in
•Medical diagnostic systems
•Customer su ort 42
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Case-basedreasoning represents
knowledge as adatabase of pastcases and theirsolutions. The system
uses a six-stepprocess to generatesolutions to newproblemsencountered by theuser.
• Fuzzy logic systems
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Fuzzy logic systems
• Rule-based technology that represents
imprecision used in linguistic categories (e.g.,
“cold,” “cool”) that represent range of values • Describe a particular phenomenon or process
linguistically and then represent that
description in a small number of flexible rules
• Provides solutions to problems requiring
expertise that is difficult to represent with IF-
THEN rules
•Autofocus in cameras•Detecting possible medical fraud
•Sendai’s subway system use of fuzzy logic
controls to accelerate smoothly44
• Neural networks
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• Neural networks
• Find patterns and relationships in massiveamounts of data that are too complicatedfor human to analyze
• “Learn” patterns by searching forrelationships, building models, and
correcting over and over again model’sown mistakes
• Humans “train” network by feeding it data
inputs for which outputs are known, to helpneural network learn solution by example
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• Used in medicine, science, and business forproblems in pattern classification,
prediction, financial analysis, and controland optimization
• Machine learning: Related AI technology
allowing computers to learn by extractinginformation using computation andstatistical methods
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A neural network uses rules it “learns” from patterns in data to constructa hidden layer of logic. The hidden layer then processes inputs,classifying them based on the experience of the model. In this example,the neural network has been trained to distinguish between valid and
fraudulent credit card purchases.
• Genetic algorithms
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Genetic algorithms
• Useful for finding optimal solution for specific
problem by examining very large number of
possible solutions for that problem• Conceptually based on process of evolution
•Search among solution variables by
changing and reorganizing component parts
using processes such as inheritance,
mutation, and selection
• Used in optimization problems (minimization of
costs, efficient scheduling, optimal jet enginedesign) in which hundreds or thousands of
variables exist
• Able to evaluate many solution alternatives
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This example illustrates an initial population of“chromosomes,” each representing a different solution. Thegenetic algorithm uses an iterative process to refine theinitial solutions so that the better ones, those with the higher
fitness, are more likely to emerge as the best solution.
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• Hybrid AI systems
•Genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, neural
networks, and expert systems integratedinto single application to takeadvantage of best features of each
•E.g., Matsushita “neuro-fuzzy” washingmachine that combines fuzzy logic withneural networks
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• Intelligent agents
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• Work in background to carry out specific,
repetitive, and predictable tasks for user,
process, or software application• Use limited built-in or learned knowledge base
to accomplish tasks or make decisions on user’s
behalf
• Deleting junk e-mail
• Finding cheapest airfare
• Agent-based modeling applications:
• Systems of autonomous agents
• Model behavior of consumers, stock
markets, and supply chains; used to predict
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