AN ANALYSIS OF KEY FACTORS FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE COMMUNAL MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE (2009)
Isabelle Bourdon, Chris Kimble
This paper explores the links between Knowledge Management and new community-based models of the organization from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. From a theoretical standpoint, we...
An Analysis of Key Factors for the Success of the Communal Management of Knowledge (2008)
Bourdon, Isabelle, Kimble, Chris
This paper explores the links between Knowledge Management and new community-based models of the organization from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. From a theoretical standpoint, we...
Baillette, Pamela, Kimble, Chris
The stated aim of this conference is to debate the continuing evolution of IS in businesses and other organisations. This paper seeks to contribute to this debate by exploring the concept of...
Ribeiro, Richard, Kimble, Chris
This paper examines the possibility of discovering 'hidden' (potential) Communities of Practice (CoPs) inside electronic networks, and then using this knowledge to nurture them into a fully developed...
Philosophical Smoke Signals: Theory and Practice in Information Systems Design (2008)
Although the gulf between the theory and practice in Information Systems is much lamented, few researchers have offered a way forward except through a number of (failed) attempts to develop a single...
APD-A Tool for Identifying Behavioural Patterns Automatically from Clickstream Data (2008)
I-hsien Ting, Lillian Clark, Chris Kimble, Daniel Kudenko, Peter Wright
Abstract. Clickstream can be a rich source of data for analysing user behaviour, but the volume of these logs makes it difficult to identify and categorise behavioural patterns. In this paper, we...
Practice: Going One Step Too Far? (2008)
Environnement Affaires, Environnement Virtuel, Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth
❒ Résumé: Vers la fin des années 90, la gestion des connaissances et les communautés de pratique semblaient inséparables. Les communautés de pratique semblaient offrir la clef qui...
Modelling Knowledge-Based Systems Using UML Profile (2008)
Mohd Syazwan Abdullah, Ian Benest, Andy Evans, Chris Kimble
Abstract – Knowledge-based systems (KBS) play an important rôle in managing an organisation’s knowledge initiated through knowledge management processes. These systems are designed, and...
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS A Partnership for the Future (2008)
Paulo Castro Seixas, Paulo Gens Lemos, Chris Kimble
Abstract: This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society...
Although the gulf between the theory and practice in Information Systems is much lamented, few researchers have offered a way forward except through a number of (failed) attempts to develop a single...
CHAPTER XX A DESIGN FOR A GROUP MEMORY SYSTEM USING ONTOLOGIES (2008)
José Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble, Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia
Organisations recognise the importance of managing what they consider their most valuable asset: Knowledge. Our work is a contribution towards that end, proposing a system for representing,...
Communities of Practice: Never Knowingly Undersold (2008)
Abstract. This paper was prompted by the growing ambiguity about what is meant by the term Community of Practice and what such communities are supposed achieve. Like John Lewis ' famous tag-line...
CHAPTER 34 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING? * (2008)
Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright, Chris Kimble
As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being...
Most organisations realise that “knowledge ” is a strategic resource that gives them sustainable competitive advantage and helps them achieve long-term organisational goals. With the realization...
Abstract (2) Multimedia Resource Centre (2008)
José Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble, Feliz Gouveia, Daniel Kudenko
Organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of managing what they consider their most valuable asset: knowledge. This work is a contribution towards that end, proposing a system for...
(2) Multimedia Resource Centre (2007)
Jos Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble, Feliz Gouveia, Daniel Kudenko
Organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of managing what they consider their most valuable asset: knowledge. This work is a contribution towards that end, proposing a system for...
CHAPTER XX A DESIGN FOR A GROUP MEMORY SYSTEM USING ONTOLOGIES (2007)
José Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble, Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia
Organisations recognise the importance of managing what they consider their most valuable asset: Knowledge. Our work is a contribution towards that end, proposing a system for representing,...
This paper describes work carried out at the University of York; its contents do not represent the views or opinions of BT. It provides an example of how insights into the field of IS can be gained...
CHAPTER 34 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING? * (2007)
Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright, Chris Kimble
As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being...
Multimedia Studies and Resource Centre (2007)
Feliz Ribeiro Gouveia, Chris Kimble, J. Vasconcelos, F. Gouveia, C. Kimble
In the recent years, much has been said about ontologies and their applications in different research fields. The ontological discipline emerged from artificial intelligence as a form of knowledge...
Most organisations realise that “knowledge ” is a strategic resource that gives them sustainable competitive advantage and helps them achieve long-term organisational goals. With the realization...
Key words = information overload, contextual cues, e-mail, message systems, tags,
Developing a UML Profile for Modelling Knowledge- Based Systems (2007)
Mohd Syazwan Abdullah, Andy Evans, Ian Benest, Chris Kimble
Abstract. Knowledge engineers have favoured a diagrammatic approach for developing knowledge-based systems by adopting those used in software engineering. However, these modelling techniques tend to...
Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user browsing strategies (2006)
Lillian Clark, I-Hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright, Daniel Kudenko
Introduction. The strategies that people use to browse Websites are difficult to analyse and understand: quantitative data can lack information about what a user actually intends to do, while...
Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies (2005)
Clark, Lillian, Ting, I-Hsien, Kimble, Chris, Wright, Peter, Kudenko, Daniel
Introducción. Las estrategias que las personas usan para hojear sitios web son difíciles de analizar y comprender: los datos cuantitativos pueden carecer de la información sobre lo que un usuario...
Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies (2005)
Clark, Lillian, Ting, I-Hsien, Kimble, Chris, Wright, Peter, Kudenko, Daniel
Introducción. Las estrategias que las personas usan para hojear sitios web son difíciles de analizar y comprender: los datos cuantitativos pueden carecer de la información sobre lo que un usuario...
A Pattern Restore Method for Restoring Missing Patterns in Server Side Clickstream Data (2005)
I-Hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Daniel Kudenko
When analyzing patterns in server side data, it becomes quickly apparent that some of the data originating from the client is lost, mainly due to the caching of web pages. Missing data is a very...
D.: A Pattern Restore Method for Restoring Missing Patterns in Server Side Clickstream Data (2005)
I-hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Daniel Kudenko
Abstract. When analyzing patterns in server side data, it becomes quickly apparent that some of the data originating from the client is lost, mainly due to the caching of web pages. Missing data is a...
Notions of Equivalence in Software Design (2004)
Design methods in information systems frequently create software descriptions using formal languages. Nonetheless, most software designers prefer to describe software using natural languages. This...
Uncovering the epistemological and ontological assumptions of software designers (2004)
The ontological and epistemological positions adopted by information systems design methods are incommensur-able when pushed to their extremes. Information systems research has therefore tended to...
Knowledge Networks : Innovation Through Communities of Practice (2004)
Hildreth, Paul M., Kimble, Chris
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Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far? (2004)
Environnement Affaires, Environnement Virtuel, Chris Kimble, Paul Hildtreth
In the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically...
I-hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Daniel Kudenko
Clickstream data from e-commerce customers is a principal resource for evaluation of a website design. Many tools have been proposed for the visualization of Clickstream data [1, 2]. However, they do...
Exploring social presence in asynchronous text-based online learning communities. (2004)
This paper reports the findings from a longitudinal case study at University of York, UK. It aims to investigate the development of social presence among online members in textbased online learning...
I-hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Daniel Kudenko
Abstract. E-commerce website design is a highly complex and subjective task which is often very difficult to get right from the start. Once a design has been implemented, customer behavior usually...
Abstract: As people transform data, information and experiences into shared corporate knowledge, the management of individual competencies has become increasingly important to knowledge intensive...
Abstract: Knowledge Intensive Organisations (KIOs), that is organisations built on their use intellectual capital, need to create an environment that facilitates the effective deployment and reuse of...
The duality of knowledge (2002)
Knowledge Management (KM) is a field that has attracted much attention both in academic and practitioner circles. Most KM projects appear to be primarily concerned with knowledge that can be...
C.Kimble, Knowledge modeling techniques for developing knowledge management systems (2002)
Mohd Syazwan Abdullah, Ian Benest, Andy Evans, Chris Kimble
Knowledge management is fast becoming a commercial necessity for many organizations, in order that they manage their intellectual assets and gain competitive advantage. To maximise that advantage,...
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual (2001)
Kimble, Chris, Hildreth, Paul, Wright, Peter
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now have to cope with the...
Computer based Information Systems and Managers' Work (2001)
Kimble, Chris, McLoughlin, Kevin
This paper identifies three categories of model: the Technology Impact Model; the Social Impact Model and the Integrationist Model, which imply different views of the "impact" of Information...
Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment (2001)
Hildreth, Paul, Kimble, Chris, Wright, Peter
Modern commercial organisations are facing pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. When they lose people, they also lose their knowledge. Organisations also have to cope with the...
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual (2001)
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. When people leave organisational knowledge is also...
Communities of Practice in the distributed international environment (2000)
Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright
Modern commercial organisations are facing pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. When they lose people, they also lose their knowledge. Organisations also have to cope with the...
A Group Memory System for Corporate Knowledge Management: An Ontological Approach (2000)
José Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble, Feliz Gouveia, Daniel Kudenko
Organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of managing what they consider their most valuable asset: knowledge. This work is a contribution towards that end, proposing a system for...
Effective Virtual Teams Through Communities of Practice (2000)
Chris Kimble, Alexis Barlow, Feng Li, Feng Li, Senior Lecturer
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place...
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual (2000)
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now have to cope with the...
Computer mediated communications and international communities of practice (1998)
Paul M Hildreth, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright
Within the Knowledge Management context there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are...
THE ROLE OF CONTEXTUAL CLUES IN THE CREATION OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD (1998)
Chris Kimble, David J. Grimshaw, Paul M. Hildreth
There has been an explosion of new forms of communications media for interpersonal communication. There is anecdotal evidence of people suffering from ‘information overload ’ as a result of these...
Computer mediated communications and international communities of practice (1998)
Paul M Hildreth, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright
Within the Knowledge Management context there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are...
Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice
Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright
Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are...
Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Alexis Barlow, Feng Li
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place...
Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?
Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright, Chris Kimble
As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This...
Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?
n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based...
The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, David J Grimshaw
There has been an explosion of new forms of communications media for interpersonal communication. There is anecdotal evidence of people suffering from 'information overload' as a result of these...
An interdisciplinary study of information systems: Christopher Alexander and IS failure.
This paper describes work carried out at the University of York; its contents do not represent the views or opinions of BT. It provides an example of how insights into the field of IS can be gained...
Knowledge Management in Non-Governmental Organisations: A Partnership for the Future
José Vasconcelos, Paulo Castro Seixas, Paulo Gens Lemos, Chris Kimble
This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society Organizations...