scholarly journals New Collaboration through Artefact-Mediated Interaction with a Joint Knowledge Base

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. pp180-193
Author(s):  
Marco Bettoni ◽  
Eddie Obeng
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Individual

Collaboration is changing and increasingly emerging as what we call “New Collaboration”, a knowledge-based and community-oriented way of working together (especially digital, online collaboration). Unfortunately, organisations use only a small percentage of the potential of New Collaboration. One main reason for this is that they do not understand that New Collaboration is based on knowledge sharing and requires the individual knowledge of the collaborators to be integrated into a shared knowledge structure, a so-called Joint Knowledge Base (JKB). This concept of a Joint Knowledge Base as the tacit knowledge structure which is constructed, shared and maintained during collaboration, emerged during the course of our previous work and became more and more prominent as a key to collaboration. When a group interacts, the JKB functions as an interaction bridge, and this is why it is a key to collaboration. In this paper, we will revise and elaborate in more detail our concept of a JKB and explain its role in artefact-mediated interaction. First, we will explain the main characteristics of New Collaboration and summarise them based on a concise definition. Secondly, we will introduce the concept of a Joint Knowledge Base, explore the role of social negotiation in constructing it, define the JKB as a distributed knowledge structure, discuss the problem of obstacles which hinder its development and suggest how to solve it by means of gaining deeper insight into the complexity of the involved processes (communication, interaction). And next we will further develop this solution by introducing the concept of boundary artefacts and describing their implementation as tools for artefact-mediated interaction by means of a systematic approach. Finally, we will explain this systematic approach and show how boundary artefacts and artefact-mediated interaction work in practice during meetings performed on a commercially available collaboration platform where they contribute to the construction of a JKB.

Exploiting the Features of ISO GPS Standards to Enhance a Knowledge-Based Method for Product Redesign and Process Reconfiguration

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cristofolini ◽  
Stefano Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Product Features ◽  
Main Activity

Previous work developed a knowledge-based method named Design GuideLines Collaborative Framework (DGLs-CF), adopted during product redesign and process reconfiguration and aimed at dealing and matching with particular manufacturing and verification technologies, according to ISO GPS concepts. Aim of present work is improving the role of the ISO GPS within the DGLs-CF, not only to raise coherence in terms of concepts, but to gain some important internal and external improvements for the DGLs-CF. The main activity toward achieving this goal is the formalization of DGLs-CF product features by means of the ISO GPS features. The procedure is proposed and the consequences of its application on the elements of the DGLs-CF are evaluated. A case of study as an example of application is also presented. A significant improvement in the DGLs-CF is realized, both in terms of knowledge structure and organization, and in terms of the possibility of interfacing it with other methodologies, tools, and environments.

Knowledge Producers and Consumers

2011 ◽  
pp. 459-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atreyi Kankanhalli ◽  
Bernard C.Y. Tan ◽  
Kwok-Kee Wei
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual

In a knowledge-based economy, organizations find it difficult to compete based upon the individual knowledge of a few organizational members. This provides the rationale for knowledge management wherein organizational knowledge must be shared, combined, and reused in order to enable organizations to compete more effectively. Hence, knowledge sharing is considered an essential process in knowledge management. Unfortunately, sharing is often unnatural for the parties involved in it, that is, knowledge contributors or producers and knowledge seekers or consumers. Hoarding knowledge and not accepting knowledge from others are natural tendencies that are difficult to change (Davenport & Prusak, 1998). Knowledge contributors may be inhibited from sharing their knowledge due to perceptions of loss of power, lack of time or incentives, and other barriers. Knowledge seekers may find it laborious to seek advice from others and desire to discover solutions for themselves. Therefore, it is vital to understand and foster the motivations of knowledge contributors and seekers toward participating in knowledge sharing.

Research? Learning? Exploring? Individual Knowledge Acquisition

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Andrea Bence-Fekete
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Unique Problem ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Problem Solving Strategies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Verbal Knowledge ◽  
Young Researchers

AbstractThe development and modification of learning skills did not follow the boom of the other areas. In the teaching materials verbal knowledge is still the most significant, which does not require thinking and creativity from the students during acquisition; what more, sometimes even the pedagogues do not like those students, who apply unique problem-solving strategies. Making the knowledge applicable does not happen via passive reception, but rather via active learning based on individual thinking and experiences. Research based knowledge acquisition may be applied already from the age of 10; and it enables an prepares children to get along creatively in our knowledge-based society, which requires the individual search and use of information and sources, sensitivity towards problems and a general knowledge of research methods. During the lecture I will introduce the working group of young researchers, where children learn the basics of research step-by-step and show how the roles of students and teachers change during the individual discoveries. So-called “Dunántúli Mandulafa” is a scientific competition of 10-19-year-old young researchers, where they show their first ever presentation and make their first scientific publication - considering the abilities originating from their age, certainly.

Work-based learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how transdisciplinarity is woven into the key curriculum components of individually negotiated work-based learning (WBL) programmes and to focus upon the performative value of knowledge in the work context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws upon WBL academic literature and the authors 22 years operational experience of WBL. Findings – The paper suggests that while university-level WBL can enhance the performance of organizations and individuals it is also inherently challenging and challenged by the hegemony of subject disciplines and disciplinary-based university structures. WBL is concerned with knowledge which is often unsystematic, socially constructed and is action focused in order to achieve outcomes of significance to work. This contests the supremacy of the role of the university in curriculum design, delivery and validation of knowledge and means that work-based knowledge is often seen as transdisciplinary rather than conforming to traditional subject disciplines (Boud and Solomon, 2001). Research limitations/implications – Central to the distinctive nature of university WBL programmes is the role of the external organization as a partner with the university and the individual learner in the planning of learning activities which are intended to have significance for the workplace. For individual knowledge to become organizational knowledge, and thus fully contribute to the intellectual capital of the organization, it must be shared and accepted by others. It follows that a key concern for organizations must be the facilitation of the recognition of knowledge and this goes beyond using a transdisciplinary lens when guiding and assessing the work of individual higher education students. Practical implications – The paper has practical implications for the design and facilitation of WBL programmes at higher education level. Originality/value – Provides an informed and sustained examination of the concept of WBL and knowledge.

The Role of Dialogue, Otherness and the Construction of Insight in Psychosis: Toward a Socio-Dialogic Model

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dolson
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Phenomenon ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe focus is on the intersubjective, narrative and dialogic aspects of the clinical phenomenon of insight in psychosis. By introducing a socio-dialogic model for the clinical production of insight, it can be learned how insight, as a form of self-knowledge (of a morbid alteration in one's relation to the world/others), is a product of the clinical interview, namely the dialogic relation between patient and clinical interviewer. Drawing upon the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, expressly his notion of the ethical encounter, the production of insight in the clinical interview is elucidated as both a synchronic and diachronic phenomenon—a provisional form of self-knowledge based on historically-produced frames of meaning which are recalled and narrated, i.e., produced at a specific moment in time. The production of insight, based on auto-biographical memory, is ultimately a processual and transactional phenomenon which arises out of the narrative construction of experience and the dialogic negotiation of the individual's "authored" experience. This process may be understood as a synergistic dynamic between intersubjective micro-processes (dialogue) and symbolic macro-processes (such as "culture"), which may, when crystallized at the individual level, precipitate a subjectively insightful account of the prodromal illness experience.

The Microfoundations of Corporate Entrepreneurship as an Organizational Capability

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Salvato ◽  
Salvatore Sciascia ◽  
Fernando G. Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Opportunity Recognition ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
Internal Constraints ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Individual

The authors propose a conceptualization of corporate entrepreneurship as an organizational capability that allows firms to overcome internal constraints systematically so that they can reinvent themselves through novel business initiatives. The paper adopts the knowledge-based concept of absorptive capacity to identify the microfoundations of a firm's corporate entrepreneurship capability for opportunity recognition and exploitation. It advances a model that combines the individual-level role of entrepreneurial managers with firm-level efforts to strengthen entrepreneurial processes over time.

scholarly journals Personalized medicine: Time for One person, one medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Prithvirajsinh Parmar ◽  
Himan Patel ◽  
Ashvin Mishra ◽  
Miteshkumar Malaviya ◽  
Keyur Parmar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
The Future ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Based Medicine

It’s becoming clearer that medicine is not one-size-fits-all. The problem with the traditional or present way of medical treatment is that they are created for and tested on a large group of people. The medicines are prescribed so broadly that they don’t work for everyone. Some drugs work very well for certain people and some not. In ancient times, medicine was practiced according to the signs and symptoms presented by the patient and were solely based on the individual knowledge of the physician and thus were called intuition medicine. Nowadays, medicine is based on the evidence produced by scientific research, including clinical trials, which is designated as evidence-based medicine. In the future, medicine will be practiced according to algorithms that will take into consideration the patient's characteristics, such as their genome, epigenetics, and lifestyle, constituting personalized medicine. Doctors use information about you -- your genes, lifestyle, and environment -- along with the characteristics of your disease to select treatments that are most likely to work for you. Health care has transmuted since the decline in mortality caused by infectious diseases as well as chronic and non-contagious diseases, with a direct impact on the cost of public health and individual health care. The evolution of medicine has increased the life expectancy of humans. Personalized medicine is the new way of thinking about medicines. In this review, we will see how Personalized medicine will transform healthcare, how Artificial intelligence and personalized medicine working together towards better healthcare, personalized medicine in the pharmaceutical industry, its vision for the future, and its application in various diseases.

Knowledge Producers and Consumers

2011 ◽  
pp. 867-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atreyi Kankanhalli ◽  
Bernard C.Y. Tan ◽  
Kwok-Kee Wei
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual

In a knowledge-based economy, organizations find it difficult to compete based upon the individual knowledge of a few organizational members. This provides the rationale for knowledge management wherein organizational knowledge must be shared, combined, and reused in order to enable organizations to compete more effectively. Hence, knowledge sharing is considered an essential process in knowledge management. Unfortunately, sharing is often unnatural for the parties involved in it, that is, knowledge contributors or producers and knowledge seekers or consumers. Hoarding knowledge and not accepting knowledge from others are natural tendencies that are difficult to change (Davenport & Prusak, 1998). Knowledge contributors may be inhibited from sharing their knowledge due to perceptions of loss of power, lack of time or incentives, and other barriers. Knowledge seekers may find it laborious to seek advice from others and desire to discover solutions for themselves. Therefore, it is vital to understand and foster the motivations of knowledge contributors and seekers toward participating in knowledge sharing.

The Research on the Construction of a Virtual Community Knowledge Base

2011 ◽  
Vol 271-273 ◽  
pp. 923-928
Author(s):  
Xia Zhu Zeng ◽  
Kui Tian Ai ◽  
Xin Qian
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Base System ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Base System ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Database Platform ◽  
Resources Sharing

Outline the background and meaning of knowledge base, analyse the role of building it in a virtual community and discuss the problems which will be encountered in the process of building and propose some strategies which can be adopted in the course of structure. In the education field, the virtual community knowledge base is a kind of virtual intellectual resources sharing system in essence that enables individual knowledge into collective. It is a database platform on which college students can display themselves, communicate and share knowledge freely.Currently, ontology-based knowledge base system is the hot topic.

scholarly journals Nooindustrial production: a step towards non-economic development

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.D. Bodrunov ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Core Components ◽  
New Type ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Public Production ◽  
The Individual

Considers the role of core components, i. e. individual, society and production, in the development of twenty-first century economy; the influence of intense market competition on humans as bio(zoo)beings; and the need to abandon the zootrend in civilizational development and pursue a different path targeting the creation of a new type of wants, values, and incentives -and, ultimatley, the new Individual. The author describes the transition from postindustrialism to knowledge-based NIS.2 followed by progress towards nooproduction and noonomy. Bodrunov analyzes public production as a system under the noonomy and emphasizes that nooproduction will focus on the production of the Individual per se. Cultural progress will underlie shifts in the structure of noowants.

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