Knowledge Coordination (PDF)

Knowledge management has become an important topic for the theory
and practice of organisation management. Knowledge
Coordination argues that coordination is a key factor for
managing knowledge within organisations. By offering a clearcut
conceptualisation of knowledge, it fills an important gap in the
literature on knowledge management.

Based on the authors' rational reconstruction of knowledge
coordination for knowledge management, this text identifies
techniques and conceptual tools to build systemic solutions to
improve on corporate operational efficacy.

Contrasts business strategies, and presents and discusses the
tools to implement management systems based on each of the
different strategies. Among these tools, the authors discuss
ontological engineering, communities of practice and an original
conceptual tool called Structure of Capability Providers.

Covers topics including:

* Intelligent Agents for Knowledge Modelling

* Artificial Intelligence

* Ontologies

* Managing Capabilities

* Assessing Knowledge Coordination

It will be highly popular with academic and industrial
researchers who need to understand the current thinking in research
of knowledge management. In addition it is aimed at senior
undergraduate and postgraduate students in computer science and
Information Technology and in particular researchers in knowledge
engineering, artificial intelligence and agent based systems.
Management and business professionals and those dealing with IT
systems design and implementation will also find it useful.