Knowledge is the real value of business. But knowledge is always hidden in the mindset of people and is so hard to speak out. When the tacit knowledge is gone with people, the intellectual capital of business will soon decrease. So the purpose of knowledge management in business is to transfer the tacit knowledge of people into the explicit knowledge of organization. "Community" is a group organized by experts. In communities, it's easy for experts to share experiences and create knowledge. The concept of community is a good method for business to collect the tacit knowledge of people. But it¡¦s still a big question that how to use communities to leverage the knowledge value of business.

Abstract The fever of knowledge management (KM) has lasted since the end of 20th century. KM won¡¦t be just a fever of management for a short while. It will be the key managerial element to establish the competitiveness of organizations. The research of KM in the last decade is forming the frame of KM. The micro-research focuses on analyzing a specific factor of KM and the macro-research focuses on building up the frame of KM from different points of view. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between these enabling factors of KM and the way that they interact with each other, and to understand the way of these enabling factors operating in the level of individuals, teams and the whole organization. This study integrated these enabling factors and built up the framework of these enabling factors. This framework can help organizations to exam the existing KM within their own organizations when they are trying to establish the enabling system of KM. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1. Organizations must carry out KM with the control of enabling factors. In the enabling system of the organization, these enabling factors are interdependent and come into the social ecology of the organization. 2. The enabling system of KM is led by the knowledge strategy and must be reconciled with the goal of the knowledge strategy in order to create better effect. 3. A complete KM enabling system includes knowledge strategy, organizational culture, organizational structure, hardware environment and norms, and human resource policies. 4. Organizations use KM enabling system to influence the knowledge behaviors of individuals and the knowledge process of teams. 5. Most of the influence of individuals and teams on KM enabling system is knowledge strategy and organizational culture. 6. The aim of KM is to strengthen individual knowledge behavior. And the change of individual knowledge behavior is one of the enabling factors in the whole KM operation. 7. The individual knowledge behavior will influence not only the design of the KM enabling system but also the team knowledge process. 8. Team is the main operational unit to establish the key competitiveness of organizations. Furthermore, the team operation is also one of the KM enabling factors.

Abstracts As the constant innovation of science and technology, and the continual internationalization of market, the environment of business operation has become increasingly competitive. An enterprise must make use of its own tangible capitals to conduct the innovation, revamping and renewal of products, processes, equipments, techniques and procedures. All of these activities should be achieved by means of capital expenditure project. Knowledge is the most important resource of business in 21th century. However, it must be conducted through capital input to convert, utilize and implement the knowledge in the whole operation and process of a business. Through transforming knowledge to action, a business can create its core value and enable itself to grasp competitive edge, and realize corporate vision. China Steel Corporation is the subject of this research. CSC is attributed to heavy industry with the characteristics of capital and technology intensive, and long-term investment. Its investment project is indeed a highly knowledge intensive process. Hence, it is an emergent issue for a business to integrate the practice of knowledge management and investment projects so that knowledge asset can assist a business to allocate and utilize its own limited resource adequately, avoid wrong investment, and develop its best performance. The goal of this research is to examine the theoretical application on practice focusing on the integration of capital expenditure and knowledge management, of a business, to pursue its optimal investment performance. We try to find out the nature and characteristics, activities of knowledge management, and the factors that enable knowledge management and their current status. Then investigate the practical status of a business utilizing knowledge to solve its problems in the process of capital expenditure planning and decision-making. Finally, we set the results of our interviews and investigations as the basis of our empirical analysis, and our conclusions as listed below: 1. the core aspects of investing in knowledge nature are the innovation of equipments, technology and materials, as well as the high platform assessment decision-making capability. 2. knowledge creation capability is the competitive edge for CSC¡¦s investment projects. 3. knowledge integration is the key mechanism for a business to form its decision-making of investment. 4. the emphasis on environmental discipline and security of IT system will constrain the activities of knowledge management. 5. the accumulative structure differs in different divisions 6. the efficiency of knowledge management will be reduced if the guiding integration mechanism is insignificant. 7. the most helpful factors to knowledge market: mediator and market reward. 8. knowledge management will be the core task of business investment.

In this study, we classify and examine the relationships among strategy, Type, and performance of knowledge management. A good measure to classify the strategy and the type of knowledge management was discussed. We proofed that a good performance will be achieved only when a strategy of knowledge management has been matched with a given type of knowledge management based on the data of general manufacture industry, high-tech manufacture industry, and service industry in Taiwan.

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Many domestic enterprises begin to set up the knowledge management mechanism under the industry pressure, and start researching about stage-by-stage procedures of knowledge management. Many scholars have proposed different kinds of knowledge management frameworks and activities for different industries. Besides frameworks, their academic opinions on essential factors of knowledge management are diverse. Successful cases for knowledge management mainly focus on industries of high-technology and consultancy. Thus at this moment, in Taiwan, not too many enterprises successfully put knowledge management mechanism into practice. Through designing and carrying out the knowledge management mechanism, this study tried to explain effective knowledge management may upgrade business competitiveness. The study is a qualitative research and case study and in-depth interview were employed as main parts of its methodology. In the process of the study, the author interviewed with eight co-researchers in Kao-Du Toyoto Motor Company. After the interviews, the author coded the tapes into Word processor files and then analyze transcripts data. In order to study the procedure for KM, some major issues are also delineated and being taken into consideration in this research as follows: (1) basic frameworks; (2) significant factors; (3) motivation; (4) processes; (5) multiple activities; (6) utilization timing; and (7) information technology. Based on deliberate literature review and case study, in the end, this study offered its analyses and suggestions for enterprises carrying out knowledge management.

Abstract Arthur Anderson Consulting spent thirty millions US dollars on corporate management research and development, which in turn developed ¡§The Best Corporate Workflow Knowledge Management System¡¨ for thousands of clients and consultants. This is the best example for successfully invented knowledge management. Not only foreign corporations are applying this resources management system to improve their competitiveness. Taipei government also applied knowledge management related measures facilitated by Microsoft Corporation in 2001. Taiwan Private Corporation obviously has already followed the trend on knowledge management. ITIS listed resources management system as one of the six significant techniques in 1996. The term ¡§Knowledge Management¡¨, has become a buzz word in corporate culture for a long time. Some observers said this is the trend for knowledge management in the future. Others think this is just an interim. Either one would be true; knowledge management seems to be one necessary means to replace other organizations restructuring direction. Currently, most of academic researchers in resources management primarily focus on application and subjective issues. There is a lack of study to prove whether knowledge management can improve organizational performance. The study brings organization performance and knowledge management into discussion order to figure out the effects from knowledge management and organization performance. With thorough investigation, there are several points that are worthy to note: 1. Different business strategy, industry category and life cycle devote differences in existing knowledge management culture and organization performance. (1) Those corporations which apply innovative strategies like knowledge management culture and organization performance usually have better satisfactory than those which apply other business strategies. 2. Knowledge management culture has tremendous effects on knowledge management performance and organization performance. 3. Knowledge management performance has partial mediatory effects on knowledge management culture and organization performance 4. Knowledge management strategy has partial moderator effects on knowledge management culture and intellectual capital management performance (1) If corporate intellectual capital is mostly explicit knowledge, corporate intellectual management performance will be better off when apply systematic strategy (2) If corporate intellectual capital is mostly tacit knowledge, corporate intellectual management performance will be better controlled by individualize strategy.

More and more corporations deem knowledge not only as their nuclear competitiveness when the face challenge, but also as an intangible asset. Each corporation has different demand and urgency for knowledge management. To realize its demand, you must have enough information first to understand its own knowledge. Therefore, some scholars advance a concept to use ¡§Knowledge Map¡¨ to depict the knowledge a corporation owns and thus help the corporation to find out the distribution and intensity of its knowledge. This study submits a set of methods to construct knowledge map and establishes dimensions of knowledge through literature review and experts¡¦ suggestions. Using this category and knowledge measurement index, a questionnaire evaluation distribution and intensity of a corporation¡¦s knowledge has been established. Academically, this questionnaire can be a reference for relevant studies about constructing knowledge map. In practice, corporations can also use this evaluation tool to conduct knowledge measurement, management and enhancement. In addition, this study has chosen five kinds of industries to conduct a survey and experimental research with this questionnaire. The result finds that there are different distributions and intensity of knowledge to certain extends between knowledge-intensive industries and non-knowledge-intensive industries. This could be a reference for further related study.

Abstract Application of knowledge management in the process of technology transfer --- Eternal Corporation as case study. Nowadays, The boundaries of the Enterprise were not division with regional of the geography environments under the global economic system. Even thought, the small company also have a lot of branch office was dispersed in the world; and some new companies also have a world view to use the cheaper labor and production source to service local market nearby. So, there are some benefits on the substantiation system of the produce technology transfer to the other area; short-term that will enhance the local competition; long-term that can continue to master the competition and to innovate products independence. Under the globalization age of the knowledge economic, the knowledge be quickly acquired and effectively control that will be one of the route to create the value and to master the advantage of the competition for enterprise. Therefore, there are so many different modes to aim the character of the knowledge as the knowledge creation, knowledge transfer and knowledge acquired. In this thesis I will research that how to use the applicable and effective of the knowledge acquired mode for the applied of the knowledge management mode; that will avoid waste of the resource and also assist enterprise to manager and apply the knowledge that it get. Let the core ability will been complete transfer rapidly and to go a step further the technology innovation. According to the state of the research motive as above that this study was through the document confer and case study of the technology transfer in the enterprise expect to obtain some of the research objective as below: First, via the document confer to integrate the mode of the technology transfer and the frame of the knowledge management. Second, to analyze the relationship of reciprocal action between the transfer of the core technology and knowledge management that will be valid used the frame of the knowledge management proceed to the next step. Also it could to accelerate the technology transfer. Third, via the case study of the technology transfer, to confer the valid applied the mode of the knowledge management in the different phase when technology transfer. Fourth, to analyze the difference compared with the step of the process when doing the technology transfer, and offer enterprise for reference.

<p>Nowadays, business activities become more and more complex; they entangle numerous aspects of knowledge: legal, financial, management, information technology, and so on. Knowledge Management, a still novel solution for most organization, aims boost and optimize the knowledge transfers in organization. The thesis is about should and how small and middle medium enterprises apply knowledge management. The author argues the content of knowledge management, and how implements those ideas into real business environment.</p>