competitive KIFs

Intro

To be competitive today, KIFs (Knowledge Intensive Organizations) must assure that they have co-workers with the right competence and skills, and that they make use of their skills. At the same time new forms for doing business and organize knowledge work evolves with the increasing developments in IT and infrastructure. The aim of this project is to support the competiveness of knowledge intensive enterprises, by both technical innovation and a deeper understanding of the basic issues of knowledge, business and organizing in the new economy.

The competitive KIFs project:

• focus on how to develop, manage, and use competence in organizations and how to support these processes with IT;
• investigate potential organizational forms for the IT-enabled KIFs of the future.
• use case studies, scenario planning and prototyping.

The project has run for two years between september 1999 and september 2001 with funding from the AIS-program of the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK). The project became the basis for the knowledge management program at the Viktoria institute, which include several projects. 

Results

Among the results are:

• 6 master thesis, 21 conference papers and 9 journal papers.
• 1 best paper award at the European Conference on Information Systems, year 2000.
• 4 prototypes and changed strategies concerning competence and knowledge management in some of the participating organizations.
• 2 PhD-thesis based on the project results:
  • "Designing the new intranet", by Dick Stenmark is defended the 8 of March.Download it here!
  • "Activating competence" by Rikard Lindgren will be defended later during the spring.

   

Full publicationlist

If you are interested in a paper or a report that is not available as pdf, please mail to janl@viktoria.se.

The project

	Project leader Jan Ljungberg , PhD, Viktoria janl@viktoria.se
	1. Framework, Concepts and Theories Tomas Hellström, PhD, Innovationsteknik, Chalmers tomhel@mot.chalmers.se
	2. IT-Studio Dick Stenmark, Volvo IT Dick.Stenmark@volvo.com
	3. Managing Competence Rikard Lindgren, Viktoria rikard@viktoria.se
	4. Knowledge Organizations of the future Magnus Bergquist, PhD, Viktoria magnus@viktoria.se

 

Partners

• AstraZeneca
• Adera/Astrakan
• Chalmers
• Chach
• Fenix
• Frontec
• Guide
• Framfab
• EHPT
• Ericsson Mobile Data Design
• Ericsson Microwave Systems
• Högskolan Trollhättan/Uddevalla
• Volvo IT

Author: Jan Ljungberg- janl@viktoria.se