Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2008 Towards Measuring Knowledge Management Success Murray E. Jennex San Diego State University mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu Abstract Discussions at previous HICSS conferences have revealed that there is no general agreement on definitions of knowledge management (KM) and knowledge management system (KMS) success. We developed these concepts and presented them earlier this year. Using an expert panel approach followed by two
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accompanied by his colleague, Akio Morita and together, they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation), and the main objective of the company, was to design and create innovative products which would benefit the people” .The founders were looking for Romanized name, and previously recommended using the initials, TKK as their company’s name but TKK was already known as Tokyo Kyuko, a railway company. The company was often called as Totsuko, but after their
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Jay Hughes Professor Vincent Ferraro World Politics 12/06/2012 “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.” This was vocalized by President Harry Truman in his famous speech where he declared the bombing on mainland Japan and, educated
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flows, capital gains and dividends for a given level of risk. Having this Western business philosophy, Walt Disney walked into the negotiation with only their shareholders’ interest in mind. They refused to compromise or lower the terms for Tokyo DisneySea Park. Walt Disney’s terms were so rigid that OL, the main Japanese investor in this contract, objected. Walt Disney was not willing to cough out anything for the construction of the park, but it imposed a 10% royalty on the admission fee
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Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Established in 1973, Seven-Eleven Japan set up its first store in Koto-ku, Tokyo, in May 1974. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. In 2004 it was owned by the Ito-Yokado group, which also managed a chain of supermarkets in Japan and owned a majority share in Southland, the company managing Seven-Eleven in the United States. Seven-Eleven Japan realized a phenomenal growth between the years of 1985 and 2003. During that period, the number
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The longer humans have lived on Earth, the worse the devastating and destructive plague known as pollution has become. It chokes the air, kills off the wildlife, and contaminates as well as thickens the water. The main cause of this pollution are buildings and other man-made structures. Since the first building was built, the pollution was increasing at a alarmingly high rate. However, with humans taking no actions to fix this pollution problem, the Earth felt as it was being taken for granted.
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Features: Another variation, discovered through the excavations of the Yamada-dera, a lost temple originally dated 643, is a difference in the style of the corridor. Yamada-dera had thick horizontal poles placed close together in the windows, while those at Hōryū-ji are thinner, and spaced at larger intervals. Major Asuka style characteristics are seen in Hōryu-ji, and resembling designs found in the Yungang Grottoes (Northern Wei), are the entasis columns, and the railings, decorated with repeat-patterned
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[pic] Author: Gail Jones Title: Dreams of Speaking Publisher: Vintage, 2007, Surrey (Great Britain) Gail Jones is an Australian writer and academic. She was born in 1955 in Harvey, Australia. She is currently a professor at the University of Western Sydney. Alice could be seen scribbling away, a cup of coffee before her , trying to render the world in prose, trying to unlock with words the complicated inside of things..." (Jones, 2007, 47) This quote is perfect to explain and even help
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Effective Team Work Nathalie Plan SOC/110 Teamwork, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution Effective Team Work * What are the characteristics of effective teams? The group task role is the group’s ability to focus on a common goal by focusng on certain behaviors that essure that the groups goal will be completed. These roles are all about making sure that group members get along with one another and that everyone coopertaes and works well with one another. The self centered roles are
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particularly like. Europeans do not care that the theme park had cost over $4 billion or that it is 4,800 acres wide. They should have emphasized the benefit one could get from visiting the park. * Over-confidence – Overwhelmed by the success of Tokyo Disney Land, Euro Disney overlooked many factors like culture and the weather. They thought that their marketing strategy in other countries would still work in Europe. * European’s view of America – According to survey done to 16 countries in
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