Frozen stories: Capturing and utilizing frozen stories for teaching of project managers

Learning from projects is one of the major challenges which appears to be critical to consistent success of project-based organizations. To learn from past projects for current problem situations, knowledge and experience often has to be shared across time or space. However, while it seems to be possible to capture explicit knowledge (e.g. about...

Knowledge Communities in fives

Many modern knowledge intensive organisations rely on knowledge sharing communities, often called ‘communities of practice. These communities can be found in many organisations, but their forms and functions appear to be quite diverse. This implies that questions concerning the functioning of communities, (how do they work) and questions...

Utilizing verbally told stories for informal knowledge management

In knowledge management, the act of telling stories is utilized to capture and convey knowledge. Spoken language is the basis for telling stories. Collaborative audio-based storytelling uses the act of verbally telling stories in groups. In this paper, we explore how to utilize verbally told stories for informal knowledge management. To identify...

Supporting knowledge management within municipalities and CJG's with Web 2.0 technologies: Exploring opportunities to contribute to knowledge management bottlenecks

Motivations for Knowledge Sharing in Professional Services Firms: A Case Study

Starting with the research question -Why are individuals at professional services firms motivated or inhibited to share knowledge? This case study gives an elaborate picture of the knowledge sharing behaviors and the motivations of a group of technology consultants. The insights obtained from this research reveal valuable lessons to increase the...

Project management instruments and the barriers to inter-project learning: Re-inventing the wheel or learning from other projects

Large infrastructure projects in the Netherlands are often subject to discussion due to large time and cost overruns. Project management instruments are developed by the projects for the efficient management of time, cost and scope. These collections of methods, tools and approaches are often modified and further developed when projects face...

Looking for the Healing Innovation Process: An Explorative Study on the Critical Sucess Factors for Innovation Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry has been spending an increasing amount of money on R&D over the years. However, fewer drugs have been approved by the FDA and the EMA recently. This lack in innovation performance is a problem which needs to be solved in order to continue finding medicines for cureless diseases. Innovation lies at the heart of the...

Knowledge Processes Steering Innovation

Purpose This study aims to explore approaches to stimulate innovation at the case company via current knowledge processes analysis to provide best-fit recommendations. Design/Methodology/Approach The study develops a theoretical overview based on the growing stream on knowledge processes in relation to innovation. The research features a case...

Implementing Sustainability in the Built Environment

There is a growing desire for sustainable design, both with firms and their clients in the built environment. However sustainability is not always integrated into designs in the same uniform manner, or at the same level. Barriers and carriers exist that influence the design and its level of sustainability for consulting engineering firms....

Fostering the reuse of knowledge in project based organizations

In the contemporary business world, more and more organizations especially in the engineering domain structure their working processes around projects. These organizations are called project-based-organizations (PBOs) and have established distinct work processes to successfully execute the projects that they undertake. The working processes in...