Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge
Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge
Knowledge management system performance measure index
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multilevel Analysis
Management Science
The knowledge diffusion model associated with innovative knowledge
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Sharing knowledge in a supply chain using the semantic web
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Modeling relationship strength in online social networks
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Knowledge Sharing Barriers in Growing Software Companies
HICSS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Knowledge sharing, innovation and firm performance
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Knowledge sharing assessment: An Ant Colony System based Data Envelopment Analysis approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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This paper considers the use of social learning networks to increase the productivity of IT consulting companies. We advocate that using a carefully designed social learning network can reduce the learning time for enterprise software developers and consultants. By viewing learning as a social act, a consulting company can increase its productivity. Increased productivity is based on hastening the learning process. The focus of this paper is to identify the ways in which social networks catalyze the process of knowledge sharing in order to increase the productivity in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting sector. We present a set of detailed practical results that were obtained from experiments with an original knowledge sharing method that was applied to training young software developers to enable them to work for some of the world's most demanding IT companies. The experimental data were collected from 2004 to 2011 during 12 training sessions conducted by an IBM partner in conjunction with the Computer Science Department of a large Eastern European University. The main results of this study were: (1) designed a learning community that reduced the time needed to insert junior consultants into ERP projects; and (2) statistical data were generated that measured the increase in productivity that an ERP consulting company could obtain by employing organizational learning networks. We also discuss the positive impacts of social networks that can be established between private companies and universities.