A process for delivering information just in time

  • Authors:
  • Kurt D. Fenstermacher

  • Affiliations:
  • MIS Department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  • Venue:
  • WM'05 Proceedings of the Third Biennial conference on Professional Knowledge Management
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Over the last three decades, the idea of just-in-time manufacturing, with its emphasis on quality improvement, streamlining processes, and reducing inventories, has revolutionized manufacturing operations across the industrial world. While there are many interrelated elements in just-in-time manufacturing, the idea’s success in producing goods has led others to apply the same ideas in services, and more recently, to knowledge management. In this paper, I explore the analogy implied by the idea of delivering knowledge “just-in-time” and argue that this necessarily requires a process-oriented approach to knowledge management.