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Draws from emerging knowledge-flow theory to provide stable principles on which to build a practice of knowledge management. This book provides 30 principles on which to base the important decisions and actions in an organization: harnessing knowledge dynamics. It also provides also 30 leadership mandates.

This book, though, provides a deep discussion about e-HRM issues so the reader can have a thoughtful background about the key role played by those who participate in e-HRM activities. A variety of experiences are provided to involve the reader in real problems and, thus, to help the reader gain an understanding of current and future e-HRM challenges. The books also explores the impact of IT on communication effectiveness, the concept of protean career, the integration of handheld computer technology into HR practice, the B2E models and, perspectives in organizational development and IT.

Addresses the importance of information technology management and issues in operating information systems in the global dynamic business environment. This book embraces discussions of the global information technology theory, frameworks and IT architecture, discovery of global knowledge management, and more.

This work explores the inner workings of an organizational, internationally distributed Community of Practice. It highlights the weaknesses of the ""traditional"" KM approach of ""capture-codify-store"" and asserts that communities of practice are recognized as groups where soft knowledge is sustained.

Provides a collection of works on a variety of topics related to IS research. This book provides chapters from world-renowned leaders in IS research along with chapters from relative newcomers who bring some interesting and often new perspectives to IS research. This book should serve as an excellent text for a graduate course on IS research methods.

This work acts as a guidebook for teachers and administrators as they look for support with their online education programmes. It aims to help teachers develop course materials for existing online courses, and work with the Internet as a medium of education and complete daily activities.

Written by academics and public administration practitioners, this book addresses general policy and administrative issues in this arena, as well as the information technology skills needed by public managers.

This work blends theory and practice to provide practical knowledge and guidelines to enterprises wishing to understand the importance of managing documents to their operations along with presentation of document content to facilitate business planning and operations support.

This work attempts to provide the most recent research and findings concerning the issues of Enterprise Resource Planning and data warehousing, providing practical assessments and suggestions for managers in the process of developing such systems.

As organizations prepare to compete globally, the effective deployment and exploitation of IT will create the difference between those that are successful and those that are not. Cases on Global IT Applications and Management brings together original cases that report on aspects of global IT applications and management and benefits educators, researchers and practitioners alike.

Whenever accidents, disasters and natural events interrupt business activities, one thing is certain: businesses lose money. How much money often depends on how prepared companies are for dealing with business interruptions. This volume helps you evaluate your business in terms of vulnerability to disaster and guides you through the process of creating a disaster recovery plan.

Focuses on the processes, techniques and tools that are being used to successfully plan, implement and operate distance learning projects. Both professionals and educators who enter this challenging teaching and training environment in the new millennium will benefit from Evaluation and Implementation of Distance Learning: Technologies, Tools and Techniques.

Helps young researchers and developers understand the basics of intelligent medical technologies and biomedical engineering, highlighting the various developments in this field.

Provides an understanding and comprehension of aesthetics and its importance in transformative online learning. Using frameworks and cases, this title intends to construct an understanding of how the art of learning is considered and knowledge is transferred from the cyber to the real world.

Establishes an understanding of autonomous peer-to-peer Web Service models and developments. This title is suitable for researchers and academics working in the fields of peer-to-peer computing, Web and grid services, and agent technologies.

Introduces new, state-of-the art applications of intelligent systems to researchers and developers in the area of machine olfaction. Contains in-depth analyses of fundamental theories, potential trends, and key literature in the field, making this work both a source of application examples that can be readily implemented and a practical guide for the implementation of solutions in other scenarios.

Examines the research challenges that hinder a fully deployable vehicular network. This unique reference presents a unified treatment of the various aspects of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and is essential reading for university professors and researchers working in the automobile industry.

Provides a variety of theoretical perspectives on the topics of trust and technology, as well as some empirical investigations into trust-building, trust-maintenance, and trust-destroying practices in the context of technology. It presents research positioned at the intersection of the issues of trust within and between individuals, and organizations, and technology under various guises.

Modern military coalition operations rely on the ability of multiple independently developed networks to function cohesively, allowing information collected by different sources to be transmitted, analyzed, processed, and provided to troops involved in tactical operations. This presents an advanced view of this delicate and vital operation.

This title makes visual knowledge modelling available to individuals as an intellectual method and a set of tools at different levels of formalization. It provides a simple, yet powerful visual language to structure their thoughts, analyze information, transform it to personal knowledge, and communicate information to support knowledge acquisition in collaborative activities.

Offers insight into the various trends, innovations, and organizational challenges of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical informatics.

Explores case studies on divergent themes of personalized learning environments, inclusive learning for social change, innovative learning and assessment techniques, technology and international partnership, and transnational collaboration for enhanced access under the core domain of technological adaptability and transnational learning.

Explores ways to overcome obstacles to successful communication from theories of communicability to the various levels of design and integration.

Examines national and international initiatives undertaken to adapt advancements in information and communication technology and successfully face the challenges posed by various social and economic forces. The international research contained represents instances of institutions that are in transition as well as those that are readily using technology in education.

Provides case studies developed by faculty and graduates of the University of Louisville's PhD program in Applied and Industrial Mathematics. The studies use non-traditional, exploratory data analysis and data mining tools to examine health outcomes, finding patterns and trends in observational data. It is ideal for the next generation of data mining practitioners.