A knowledge management approach to capture organizational learning networks

• Published in: International journal of information management Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 735 - 740
• Main Authors: Barão, Alexandre, de Vasconcelos, José Braga, Rocha, Álvaro, Pereira, Ruben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01-12-2017; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Architecture; Collaboration; Data analysis; Information management; Intellectual capital; Knowledge management; Knowledge organization; Knowledge sharing; Learning; Management systems; Ontology; Ontology design; Organization development; Organizational aspects; Organizational knowledge; Organizational learning; Organizations; Semantics; Social network analysis; Organizational knowledge; Intellectual capital; Knowledge management; Social network analysis; Ontology design
• ISSN: 0268-4012; 1873-4707
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.07.013

Effective knowledge management practices in organizations are focused on knowledge creation and knowledge transfer activities. Thus, intelligence and competencies matters at the organizational workplace. For most knowledge intensive organizations is fundamental the continuous availability and development of domain expertise. This paper describes an ongoing research project to develop an organizational knowledge architecture that is being specified and developed to support collaboration tasks as well as design and model predictive data analysis and insights for organizational development. The primary goal of this research is to create a suitable architecture for use, initially, in intranet (corporate portal) collaborative procedures, but also scalable for later use in more generic forms of ontology-driven knowledge management systems. The designed architecture and functionalities aim to create coherent web data layers for intranet learning and predictive analysis, defining the vocabulary and semantics for knowledge sharing and reuse projects. Regarding intellectual capital definition, this research argues that effective knowledge management are based on the dynamic nature of the organizational knowledge, and predictive data analysis and insights identification can transform and add value to an organization. This paper presents a knowledge management and engineering perspective (ontology based) for the application of predictive analysis and insights at the organizational (corporate) workplace towards the development of the organizational learning network.