Sharing expertise : beyond knowledge management /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.
Description:xx, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4808054
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Other authors / contributors:Ackerman, Mark S.
Pipek, Volkmar.
Wulf, Volker.
ISBN:0262011956 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Overview and Background
  • 1. Why Organizations Don't "Know What They Know": Cognitive and Motivational Factors Affecting the Transfer of Expertise
  • 2. A Critical Evaluation of Knowledge Management Practices
  • 3. Coming to the Crossroads of Knowledge, Learning, and Technology: Integrating Knowledge Management and Workplace Learning
  • II. Studies of Expertise Sharing in Organizations
  • 4. Emergent Expertise Sharing in a New Community
  • 5. Sharing Expertise: Challenges for Technical Support
  • 6. Locating Expertise: Design Issues for an Expertise Locator System
  • 7. Who's There? The Knowledge-Mapping Approximation Project
  • 8. Enabling Communities of Practice at EADS Airbus
  • III. Exploring Technology for Sharing Expertise
  • 9. Using a Room Metaphor to Ease Transitions in Groupware
  • 10. NewsMate: Providing Timely Knowledge to Mobile and Distributed News Journalists
  • 11. Supporting Informal Communities of Practice within Organizations
  • 12. Knowledge Communities: Online Environments for Supporting Knowledge Management and Its Social Context
  • 13. Expert-Finding Systems for Organizations: Problem and Domain Analysis and the DEMOIR Approach
  • 14. Automated Discovery and Mapping of Expertise
  • 15. OWL: A System for Automated Sharing of Expertise
  • List of Contributors
  • Index