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2. A Methodology for Systematic Project Knowledge Reuse

Authors : Silvia Schacht, Alexander Maedche

Published in: Innovations in Knowledge Management

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Managing what we know appears to be one of the challenges of the Knowledge Age that seems to be an insoluble mystery. Despite 40 years of research in the knowledge management field and an overwhelming amount of research providing knowledge management strategies, practitioners are still struggling in managing what they know. Project teams, for example, are repeating mistakes and reinventing already known solutions. In this chapter, we discuss research results in the knowledge management field and emphasize the importance of knowledge reuse. As knowledge only provides an added value when it is actually applied, we focus our research specifically on knowledge reuse and present a new methodology for systematic project knowledge reuse.

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Metadata
Title
A Methodology for Systematic Project Knowledge Reuse
Authors
Silvia Schacht
Alexander Maedche
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47827-1_2

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