Barriers to effective use of knowledge management systems in software engineering

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 46 , Issue 1 (January 2003) table of contents

COLUMN: Technical opinion table of contents

Pages: 99 - 101

Year of Publication: 2003

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Kevin C. Desouza

University of Illinois at Chicago

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

An organization must recognize that information technology is only one means to foster knowledge.

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	1	Hansen, M.T., Nohria, N., and Tierney, T. What's your strategy for managing knowledge? Harvard Bus. Rev., 77, 2 (1999), 106--116.
	2	Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. Knowledge Creating Company. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.

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