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First Observations from an Analysis of KM Job Adverts from English-Speaking Countries and Germany

Description: This paper presents the first results from an analysis of recent job advertisements from online platforms from English and German-speaking countries. The full texts of about 4100 job adverts carrying the terms “knowledge manager” or “knowledge management” either in in the job title or in the short description have been analyzed. The main research aim was to identify the most common KM job titles, providing a basis for further analysis of tasks and required competencies to compare the data sam… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter & Neher, Günther
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploring Knowledge Graphs

Description: Conference abstracts and project reports can be a valuable source for access to information on possible risks or experiences to build on. However, these collections are often not accessible in a convenient manner. This work explores the usage of knowledge graphs to support document discovery with an automated indexing approach. Therefore, an RDF/SKOS graph is built, consisting of nearly 1400 tagging labels manually extracted from literature on knowledge graphs and organized in a thesaurus struc… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Hercher, Johannes & Neher, Gunther
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. The conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, and the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Prediction of Concrete Bridge Deck Condition Ratting Based on Climate Data in Addition to Bridge Data: Five States as a Case Study

Description: Evaluating the impact of learning from climate data, in addition to bridge data, on the performance of concrete deck condition rating prediction is critical for identifying the right data needed to enhance bridge maintenance decision making. Few studies have considered such an evaluation and utilized a small size of samples that prevent revealing the knowledge hidden within the big size of data. Although, such evaluation over big data seems quite necessary, class imbalance problem makes it chal… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fard, Fariba
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Conventional and systemic Risks: Implications for Individual and Societal Governance

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the local keynote speeches by Prof. Ortwin Renn, scientific director at the Internat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Renn, Ortwin
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Understanding Risk Under Conditions of Inherent Uncertainty

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the keynote speeches by Dave Snowden is the founder of one of the five schools of se… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Snowden, Dave
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Understanding Risk Under Conditions of Inherent Uncertainty

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the keynote speeches by Susanne Durst, a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at Tall… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Durst, Susanne
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Management System Innovation: From Global Needs over Decentralized Individual Devices and Affordances towards a Shared Transdisciplinary Knowledge Heritage Repository

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the posters that focuses on real world digital projects and scenarios.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Schmitt, Ulrich
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Library Collection Development and Branding: An Exploration of Ranganthan's Fifth Law That "A Library Is a Growing Organism"

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the posters that explores selected aspects of knowledge transformation. The research… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Roughen, Patrick
Partner: UNT College of Information

Knowledge Surfacing by Expert Created Knowledge Connections

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This poster demonstrates the GuruScan in a practical interactive session. The presenter setup an online GuruScan Know… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Verheijen, Bart
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Infinity Maps as a Visual Knowledge Management Platform – Concept and Use Cases

Description: The iMapping technique is a visual knowledge mapping approach that is based on deep zooming and nesting and that unites the essential benefits of virtual whiteboards, mind maps and concept maps. To achieve that, it breaks the physical page metaphor and introduces an infinitely zoomable, nested canvas, to create large scalable knowledge spaces. It has been originally developed and scientifically evaluated in the context of personal knowledge management only. Infinity Maps is the state-of-the art… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Haller, Heiko
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Comparing Knowledge Management and Wisdom Management

Description: To provide solutions to the world’s global challenges, there is an urgent demand for wise organizations, wise leadership, wise workers, and most importantly, for wise actions. Since the mid- 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) as a discipline and practice has emerged internationally and it went through several phases of development. Similarly, in the last four decades, we experience a growth in wisdom research, and in intense discourses about Wisdom Management (WM) as a possible venue for dealing … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Jakubik, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Externalization in the Process of Building Project Knowledge Management System – a Case Study of a Public Organization

Description: In project-based organizations, knowledge management is becoming a cornerstone of their operation. Of particular importance in acquiring valuable and useful for employees, as well as for the whole organization, is one of the processes of its conversion – externalization. It is important that during the implementation of subsequent projects, valuable resources such as knowledge, skills and experience acquired by employees are not lost, but that employees externalize them. The purpose of this art… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Brodzińska, Kamila
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Are We Missing the Importance of Creativity in Knowledge Management?

Description: Creativity is no stranger to knowledge management and has helped drive innovation and break new grounds in the management of knowledge. Organisations in general see creativity as a highly desirable outcome and strive to develop it further. This conceptual paper looks at a number of academic writings to identify the role of creativity in knowledge management. A number of common themes are identified, while highlighting the need for further research into the importance of creativity in knowledge … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Laughton, Paul
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Organizations as Quantum a Metaphor to Prepare for Proliferated Quantum Supremacy

Description: Quantum physics surpasses human imagination. It totally contradicts everyday experiences. Even literal and mathematical explanations cannot substitute for a non-intuitive behavior that puzzles many of us. Commercial quantum computers are in reach within this decade. History provides examples that the appearance of new technologies brought metaphors to life that may explain up to that point poorly understood knowledge domains (e.g., "brains are hardware while thoughts are software"). The author … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Holtel, Stefan
Partner: UNT College of Information

Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy - a Report on a Transnational Project to Foster Information Literacy

Description: In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a need to prepare students to become more knowledgeable of different cultures and global matters. Furthermore, in a time which is characterized by disinformation, information literacy becomes more important than ever before. By taking into account transnational perspectives in learning these topics, e-learning provides us with the opportunity to connect students who otherwise would not have the chance to meet and get into knowledge related disco… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Griesbaum, Joachim
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy - a Report on a Transnational Project to Foster Information Literacy

Description: In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a need to prepare students to become more knowledgeable of different cultures and global matters. Furthermore, in a time which is characterized by disinformation, information literacy becomes more important than ever before. By taking into account transnational perspectives in learning these topics, e-learning provides us with the opportunity to connect students who otherwise would not have the chance to meet and get into knowledge related disco… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Griesbaum, Joachim
Partner: UNT College of Information

Semantic Networks and Knowledge Management – Context Does the Trick

Description: With an increasing flood of data and at the same time changing requirements, making the relevant information available in the right context to a customer and within the company for the respective development-, technical- and service-departments is a key success factor for many companies and at the same time an enormous challenge. The problem with folders and filing data in tree structures is that information about an object is scattered across different aspects. Access to this information is o… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Munk, Johannes
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Semantic Networks and Knowledge Management – Context Does the Trick

Description: With an increasing flood of data and at the same time changing requirements, making the relevant information available in the right context to a customer and within the company for the respective development-, technical- and service-departments is a key success factor for many companies and at the same time an enormous challenge. The problem with folders and filing data in tree structures is that information about an object is scattered across different aspects. Access to this information is o… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Munk, Johannes
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Fit to Collaborate in the Otto Group: Experiences and Perspective

Description: Juliane Dieckmann, Head of Knowledge Management in the Otto Group Holding, is responsible in the Digital & Consulting division for the group-wide transfer of knowledge and the development of KM products specifically aimed at collaboration in organisational units. She focuses with continuing enthusiasm on the task of making Knowledge Management in the Otto Group fit for the path to digital transformation and putting people at the centre of this. The Otto Group is a globally active trading and se… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Dieckmann, Juliane
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Conversation about KM at NASA

Description: Ed Rogers served as Chief Knowledge Officer with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 2003 to 2020. He holds a PhD in HRM from Cornell University and teaches a different universities like University of Alabama, George Washington University and Indian School of Business. Since 2020 he is the principal owner of Mayjer Enterprises (Palmyra, Virginia).
Date: June 2022
Creator: Rogers, Ed
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Intellectual Capital Management in an Engineering Company

Description: Engineering offices are knowledge companies. Systematically maintaining and developing the existing knowledge in and as a company is therefore an essential task of corporate management. Knowledge management at ZM-I includes a training system (ZM-I Campus), a digital knowledge database (intranet) and workshops. For a systematic analysis and evaluation of the company's intellectual capital, a bi-annual certified intellectual capital report is carried out. For this purpose, employees from all divi… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Mühlbauer, Christian
Partner: UNT College of Information
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KM Practices - Motivational Structures within Tax and Legal Knowledge Management

Description: This presentation deals with motivational ideas and initiatives for knowledge sharing in the field of tax and legal consulting. Sharing knowledge at all levels and in all formats is often difficult or even impossible due to the need to respect confidentiality and data protection laws. However, the example of PwC Switzerland shows how it is still possible to be a knowledge organization, to create a lively and popular exchange between employees and not to reinvent the wheel every day. We will als… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Otto, Katharina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Data Visualization Tools to Mitigate the Influx of Information in Organizations

Description: Considerable research has been conducted on the topic of information overload using different approaches, from marketing and customer demand to information technologies and sciences, and even among mental health professionals. In business the critical question is how does information overload impact processes, operations, and profitability, and how can data visualization help to solve issues with data management and consumption in organizations. The ability to quickly and effectively process in… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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