Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Best Practices
Successful solutions or problem-solving methods
developed by specific organization or industry
Organizational Memory
Stored learning from organizations history
Used for decision making and other purposes
Knowledge management requires an IT infrastructure that facilitates
the collection and sharing of knowledge as well as
software for distributing information and make it more meaningful
INFORMATION AND
KNOWLEDGE WORK SYSTEMS
Distributing Knowledge: Office and Document
Management Systems
Typical Office Systems
Knowledge Work Systems (KWS)
Changes in the construction management process
Requirements of knowledge work systems
Examples of Knowledge Work Systems
Sharing Knowledge: Group Collaboration Systems and
Enterprise Knowledge Environments
Office Systems
Manage and coordinate work of data and knowledge
workers
Connect work of local information workers with all levels
and functions of organization
Connect organization to external world
Example: Word processing, voice mail, and imaging
Document imaging systems
Convert documents and images into digital form
Can be stored and accessed by the computer
Knowledge repository
Documented knowledge in a single location
The three major roles of offices
Components of an imaging system
Web publishing & document management
Creating Knowledge:
Knowledge Work Systems
Aid knowledge workers in creation and
integration of new knowledge
Specialized tools for specific types of
knowledge work
User-friendly interface
Changes in
the construction project management process
Requirements of knowledge work systems
Examples of Knowledge Work Systems
Investment workstations
Sharing Knowledge: Group Collaboration Systems and
Enterprise Knowledge Environments
Groupware
Teamware
Requirements of knowledge work systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Effort to develop computer-based systems that
behave as humans
Includes natural language, robotics, perceptive
systems, expert systems, and intelligent machines
Knowledge Base
Rule-based Expert System
Rule Base
Knowledge Frames
AI shell
Inference Engine
Forward Chaining
Backward Chaining
Rules in an AI program
Inference engines in expert systems
Organizational Intelligence:
Case-Based Reasoning
Captures and
stores collective
knowledge
Represents
knowledge as
database of cases
and solutions
A neural network uses rules it learns from patterns in data
to construct a hidden layer of logic
Intelligent agent technology at work