Exploring support for knowledge management in mobile work

  • Authors:
  • Henrik Fagrell;Fredrik Ljungberg;Steinar Kristoffersen

  • Affiliations:
  • Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden;Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden;Norwegian Computing Centre, Oslo, Norway

  • Venue:
  • ECSCW'99 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper reports fieldwork from the electrical utilities industry, examining the suitability of current knowledge management perspectives to the day-to-day work of mobile staff. Reporting the results of the empirical study, we make a distinction between four aspects of local and mobile "knowledge management" as it took place in the mobile work setting sharing, i.e., several parties exchange knowledge; indexing, i.e., one party explains to another what knowledge to retrieve; diagnosing, i.e., two parties make sense of how to interpret a situation, and; foreseeing, i.e, one party (or more) uses knowledge to project the future. We compare and contrast the empirical findings with current knowledge management perspectives, and outline an initial sketch of a framework for "practical knowledge management."