In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Specialization and validation of statecharts in OWL
EKAW'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Knowledge engineering and management by the masses
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Two of the main issues that have permeated management thought in the 1990s are Business Process Re-engineering and Knowledge Management. The former rapidly achieved dizzying heights in terms of citations, publications and sales, before equally rapidly falling into disrepute. The latter may be following the same course; and perhaps deservedly so. If this seems to be an injustice to knowledge management, then the precipitous fall of BPR is also undeserved. This paper seeks to stress the strengths and weaknesses of these two trends, offering ways in which they can and should influence our practices. Taking a slightly tangential perspective to each provides the basis for a corrective to any tendency to fall into the trap of a mechanistic or IT-determined orientation; a potential inherent in both. The use of two slightly offbeat examples helps to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of both phenomena.