Third International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management - Challenges and Approaches

Session

PL02

PL02

7 Nov 2016, 14:00

BoardRoom B/M1 (IAEA M-Building)

Conveners

PL02: KM Challenges and approaches

• Franklin Osaisai

258. The Major Causes for the Failure of Knowledge Management Projects

Mr Larry Prusak

07/11/2016, 14:00

oral

It is a well-known but disheartening fact that many knowledge management projects either fail outright or do not live up to the expected promises of working with knowledge. Some of the causes of these failed attempts are easy to understand: Macroeconomic changes that can constrain an organization's new project funding; change of ownership or senior management with new ideas and disdain of...

244. To Be (Respected) or Not to Be: How German SMEs/Universities Protect their Inventions

Mr Heinz Goddar (Boehmert & Boehmert)

07/11/2016, 14:15

oral

The various possibilities to obtain Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and in particular patents in certain regions, like Europe, create the chance that an innovator and potential patentee, namely, wishing to protect its technology, e.g., in Europe makes use of various systems in a particularly smart form, as far as cost aspects are concerned. In the following it will be discussed in which...

249. Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management: An Investigation into Knowledge Management Metrics

Mr Jay Liebowitz (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA 17101, USA)

07/11/2016, 14:30

oral

In reviewing the literature and industry reports, a number of organizations have approached KM metrics from a Balanced Scorecard, Intellectual Capital (e.g., Skandia’s Intellectual Capital Navigator), Activity-Based Costing, or other borrowed approaches from the accounting and human resources disciplines. Liebowitz in his edited book, Making Cents Out of Knowledge Management (Scarecrow Press,...

274. Q&A session

07/11/2016, 14:45