Knowledge-based economy time approached, has formed a reform wave of unrest to the modern enterprise. No matter what kind of enterprise, nearly wish they can use the knowledge to realizes the dream about enterprise innovation and eternal business. The purchases works is the major cost of the general manufacturing production, needs to guarantee the enterprise earnings maximized by the effective management. This research plan to analyze and discuss the feasibility about knowledge management application on engineering outsourcing of purchases procedure in the enterprise. The engineering outsourcing is dazzling, if the enterprise has not make a systematic plan before purchase, it will cause many problems in purchase process. Even after purchased will not meet the demand and unable situation of the use. In the past, the well-experienced engineering supervisor conducted all the plan of outsourcing project. As the matter of fact, the monitoring criteria between different supervisors are not consistent. Therefore the supervising quality wills effects the outsourcing progress and the cost transparency seriously. A good engineering plan shall define the engineering specification as clear as possible so that the suppliers can establish the quotation more transparently in accordance with the engineering specification. Due to transparent purchasing process, the supplier¡¦s quotation will not be exaggerated and the cost will be controlled easily, therefore the loss will be controlled in the reasonable edge. Facing the inquiry and bargain, the purchaser and purchasing supervisor determine the most beneficial choice in accordance with the accurate planning so that the cheating occurrence will be decreased as well. How to make an excellent engineering project? Except organize an excellent engineer team. And we need to use the modern knowledge management theory and supply the suitable information technology assistance to achieve the goal of knowledge inheritance. With the systematic accumulation, expanding and transition process, the freshmen can take over the engineering knowledge and then they will make the outsourcing process more transparent and decrease the unreasonable cost loss. This research via knowledge management related literature discussed, reorganizes the major five activities of knowledge management. And via depth interview method discovered that the engineering purchase related people were hold the positive attitude and willing to accept the knowledge management induct into the purchase process system. Moreover, this case needs construct the platform of knowledge management about engineering purchase related. According to this research, we trust that it may provide the correlation company a reference to induct knowledge management system of the engineering purchase.

In 2003, the Organization for Economy Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported in its survey that Knowledge Management (KM) was one of the internal management priorities in the central government organizations in each country. It revealed that KM had been emphasized in OECD member countries. KM practices have been improved deeper and wider on application in private sector than those in government organizations. Even though, implementing KM practices has already been a global trend in this changeable century of 21. KM is a better resolution to promote administration efficiency and problem solving by accumulating material of knowledge and networking specialist. For this reason, government has been actively inducing KM practices and expecting efficiency leaders abounding with knowledge. Comptroller administrations are responsible for the budget, accounting and statistics in the government. Under the limitation of resources, how the comptroller administrations do the delivering for creating the best efficiency, service quality and performance is a grim challenge at this present. This research was done by interviewing and following questionnaire survey, based on the pattern compiled by literature reviewing, to the accountants and statisticians of Taipei and Kaohsiung government for examining the status of the KM practices in these comptroller agency. After sampling the accountants and statisticians of the two governments, this study presented a detailed analysis of its 372 valid questionnaires, which were processed by SPSS10.0 software, and obtain the findings as follow: 1.The average in all aspect is above 3 except the sharing of comptroller knowledge due to its tacit. It manifests that all accountants and statisticians have approved the KM promoting. 2.In knowledge selection aspect, man has shown more rates of utilization than woman, but woman has paid more attention to the mentoring, training, and coaching practices; staff mobility and improving the classification of information. The superior have more rates in utilizing knowledge creating than the non-superior and emphasize the relationship between organizational culture with opening, cooperation, trusting, sharing and learning. 3.In KM process aspect, budgeting comptrollers, accountants and the senior in qualification and record of service are less rates than statisticians and the junior. In aspect of KM enablers, the budgeting comptrollers place more value on strategy and leadership planning, the ones who take more time on using computer in work pay more attention to information technology and the junior focus on performance measurement. 4.The one who takes KM enablers seriously will use the KM process more frequently. It has proved the theory of KM model of AABC. 5.There are divergences in consciousness in most of aspects between Taipei and Kaohsiung comptrollers except in knowledge accumulating, accessible function of Internet site and difficulties in implementing KM practices. According to the statistics, the average of Kaohsiung is higher than Taipei in every aspect. It shows that accountants and statisticians in Kaohsiung are more perception than those in Taipei. As a result of this research, the researcher has given seven suggestions to the comptroller agency for inducing KM practices as follows: (1) Build up the consciousness of the middle- aged, higher educated and less experiences accountants & statisticians in KM concept. (2) Promoting the level of hardware and software in KM. (3) Strengthen leadership of the superior. (4) Enhancing ability of the non-superior in researching, developing and creating. (5) Establish a society on practical knowledge and a channel for sharing and communication. (6) Integrating laws and regulations, set up a database of KM in legislation. (7) Making an inquiring system of government accounting information for public.

Twenty-one century is a Knowledge economy system. Knowledge is being substituted for the machine facilities, capital asset, materials or labors, and to be the most important productive materials and competitive weapons for the enterprise. We can find out many high technology companies, which have the very high stock price in the U.S., but they do not have lots of tangible assets. Even though some of them have ten or hundred times of marketing values compare with the tangible assets. The main difference is the Intellectual Capital that is not presented by the financial reports. Therefore, for the enterprise, it is the most important issue to integrate the knowledge and enterprise core ability, and transfer to be knowledge oriented organizations by using the Intellectual Capital.There are many domestic enterprises begin to set up the knowledge management (KM) mechanism under the industry pressure, and start the research about how to drive the KM and with what kind of steps. Although there are many scholars have proposed different KM framework, activities and influential factors, the KM will still be a new issue for enterprise.Therefore, this research will propose three cases of domestic enterprise which carry out the KM. In order to study the procedure for the KM, the framework of KM, the influential factors of KM, the motivation of KM, how to drive the KM process, what kind of activities of KM, when to drive the KM, and what kind of information technology will also be discussed in this paper. Finally, this study will compare with the framework of current KM literature and analyze the result, and to be the reference for other enterprise in carrying out KM.

What is the competency advantage of company? What is the niche of company? These are the important question in management field. In this knowledge society, company¡¦s successes depend on company¡¦s special and particularly intellectual capital. Take Microsoft as an example, it¡¦s book value is not its software factory, actually it has no software factory, Microsoft¡¦s book value is constitute by its goodwill, person computer operation system stander, and the ability to form an alliance with other companies. The goodwill and abilities are Microsoft¡¦s intellectual capital. So, knowledge had become the most important active and result in economic actives. How to manage knowledge is the most important work for management in this century. Because the knowledge management becomes more and more important, many research and theses begin to study about knowledge management, and many software suppliers have developed it¡¦s own knowledge management framework and solution. The market of knowledge management software and knowledge management service keep growing, books and theses about knowledge management also create many new ideas, and all companies began to realize knowledge management is an important direction for company¡¦s development. The complete knowledge management including many components, and knowledge management involve many issues about company, including company¡¦s strategy, employees, technologies¡Ketc. So, this thesis studied the theses about knowledge management and did many case studies. And interviewed some companies, which carried out knowledge management in Taiwan and compared the cases with theses. By the comparison between cases and theses, this thesis tries to find some contribution for knowledge management. And this thesis wants to provide useful advices for companies, which want to carry out knowledge management.

The Relationship between Taiwanese Companies¡¦ Global Knowledge Management and Their Human Capital Abstract After Taiwan enter WTO, every restriction will be removed. Under environment of free trade of every resource, Taiwanese companies going to the International and Global operation will be the ongoing tendency. To accumulate existing knowledge effectively and exploit new knowledge continuously will be the key point to international corporation¡¦s success. How to build the global knowledge management will be the focus of future¡¦s global competition. ¡§Human being¡¨ is the main source of knowledge creation, also the main role under the process of knowledge management. Human-based corporation emphasize on human capital¡¦s accumulation, growth, and this is the main source of corporation¡¦s continuous improvement. This research gathered primary data through interviews. After interviews, try to analyze and categorize these primary data, then get the propositions. After comparison among five corporations, this thesis could get the three following dimensions of propositions: ¤@¡B Multinational corporation¡¦s global operation strategy Proposition 1: The higher innovative tendency of overseas subsidiary, the more complexity of global operating function they are, and the more overseas workers they have. Proposition 4: The greater corporations using technical tools, the faster corporations going global operation. ¤G¡B Multinational corporation¡¦s global knowledge management Proposition 5: Innovation-based international corporations will be more promise based of organization orientation during knowledge management process. Proposition 9: International professional knowledge will be spread by informational technology; international marketing and management knowledge will be spread by people¡¦s direct interaction. ¤T¡BGlobal knowledge management and Human capital Proposition 2: The more human capital input corporations have, the better innovation and skilled ability corporations have, and would be also care more about getting overseas potential employees. Proposition 7: The more important corporations¡¦ overseas marketing knowledge are, the more marketing employees hired locally. Proposition 3: The higher senior managers¡¦ international and professional level are, the faster corporations¡¦ globalization process are. Proposition 6: The more famous international corporation¡¦s senior managers are, the more attractive to overseas professional and managerial employees. Proposition 8: Corporations¡¦ tacit knowledge would be accumulated by human being through training, and explicit professional innovative knowledge would be accumulated by patent. Proposition 10: The more innovative corporations are, the more opened corporations culture are.

Knowledge is a strategically important resource to improve competition superiority of an organization. It plays a vital role in healthcare enterprises where knowledge is widely used as the major part of their basic resource. The rapid growing in medical laboratory technology has also enabled this field to be highly professional and knowledge¡Vintensive. To maintain the accuracy and credibility of the documentation and to improve the quality of the service, the personnel in a medical laboratory have to preserve and share their knowledge through the invisible process of creation and dissemination in a highly efficient way. It is considered of great benefit to improve the efficiency of knowledge management in a medical laboratory. We conduct a study to focus on improving the efficiency of knowledge management in the operation of a medical laboratory. We studied the application of knowledge management in a medical laboratory in a military hospital in southern Taiwan. The actuator elements of knowledge management from Arthur Anderson¡¦s model, consisting of leadership, enterprise¡¦s culture, information technology and performance appraisal, were used to construct a questionnaire. The questionnaires were mailed to chiefs of medical laboratories in medical centers. The opinion of personnel in the medical laboratory of a military hospital was surveyed with the questionnaires. We tried to find out the obstacles of promotion, key success factors and case strategy in knowledge management and build up strategy of promotion and performance measurement. Result: I. The current promotion obstacles in the medical laboratory A. The leading three ones are lack of incentive and objective evaluation in performance measurement dimension, lack of community in organizational culture and lack of integration in information technology dimension. B. The least three ones are lack of dedicated team in information technology dimension, unwilling to share in organizational culture dimension and lack of insight in leadership dimension. II. The key success factors in the promotion of knowledge management in the medical laboratory: The priority is the cognition and endorsement of executives, the willingness to communicate and share, and education and training. Finally, a strategic map was constructed according to balanced score card theory in the hope of creation of a reference in knowledge management in the medical laboratory.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX239030.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona / The Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Working Group, the highest level of the country's National Information Infrastructure (NII) technical committee, held an invited workshop in May 1995 to define a research agenda for digital libraries. The shared vision is an entire net of distributed repositories in which objects of any type and any size can be organized and searched within and across different indexed collections. The ultimate goal, as described in the IITA report, is the Grand Challenge of Digital Libraries: "deep semantic interoperability -- the ability of a user to access, consistently and coherently, similar (though autonomously defined and managed) classes of digital objects and services, distributed across heterogeneous repositories, with federating or mediating software compensating for site-by-site variations...Achieving this will require breakthroughs in description as well as retrieval, object interchange and object retrieval protocols. Issues here include the definition and use of metadata and its capture or computation from objects (both textual and multimedia), the use of computed descriptions of objects, federation and integration of heterogeneous repositories with disparate semantics, clustering and automatic hierarchical organization of information, and algorithms for automatic rating, ranking, and evaluation of information quality, genre, and other properties." "The use of computed descriptions of (multimedia) objects" and "clustering and automatic hierarchical organization of information" present pressing scientific and engineering problems that have a significant potential impact on the US society in this era of the Internet and distributed, multimedia computing.

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona / Information and knowledge management in a knowledge-intensive and time-critical environment presents a challenge to information technology professionals. In law enforcement, multiple data sources are used, each having different user interfaces. COPLINK Connect addresses these problems by providing one easy-to-use interface that integrates different data sources such as incident records, mug shots and gang information, and allows diverse police departments to share data easily. User evaluations of the application allowed us to study the impact of COPLINK on law-enforcement personnel as well as to identify requirements for improving the system. COPLINK Connect is currently being deployed at Tucson Police Department (TPD).