Tag Archives: Information system

Virtual Campfire – A Mobile Social Software for Cross-Media Communities

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Multimedia creation, annotation and sharing are challenging tasks especially of interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational communities. We present the mobile social software Virtual Campfire to provide cross-media and cross-community support for de- and recontextualization of multimedia content, employing Web Services, the MPEG-7 standard and Web 2.0 technologies etc. Virtual Campfire can enable communities to set up and maintain multimedia community information systems quickly and easily.

Knowledge Measurement and Interviewer Bias

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Organizations can be defined as knowledge-based systems with the objective to influence all knowledge processes. Defining and measuring the knowledge value of the company are key strategic concerns in contemporary companies. First, this paper discusses the basic knowledge measurement approaches. During the process of knowledge identification the interviewing method is a commonly used tool. The paper portrays the impact of the interviewer bias to the quality of knowledge measurement processes. The refection theory is the basic framework to measure interviewer bias associated with the knowledge measurement processes. Six case studies conducted by the author form the data bases for presenting improvement implications of the interviewer bias to knowledge measurement.

Strategic Benchmarking of Intellectual Capital (SBIC) An Intellectual Capital Strategic Management Methodology and Strategic Information System

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In accordance with the resource-based view and the activity-based view, sustainable competitive advantages are mainly due to core knowledge that, together with tangible and (especially) intangible resources, develops competitive products and services through the appropriate activities and processes of the value chain. Strategic Benchmarking of Intellectual Capital (SBIC) is a knowledge-based strategic management methodology and information system framework that has been built drawing direct inspiration from both the above-mentioned perspectives and tries to refine the classic strategic SWOT analysis. This paper carefully describes IICBS, one of the two versions of SBIC, and shows the main benefits to be obtained from the systematic use of IICBS. The SBIC has been tested and successfully implemented in more than forty European enterprises.