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Even though many Knowledge Management initiatives are already in operation, most do not have the right approach when it comes to capturing tacit knowledge. This paper brings to light how social, cultural and organizational paradigms can be infused within a KM initiative to capture tacit and new knowledge. This research paper also brings to light a holistic approach to investigate, analyze, probe and document an activity system for a KM initiative. This case study based investigation uses Delphi techniques to elicit responses from experts from the lens of Activity Theory (AT). It probes into supervision of projects as a case on point to demonstrate how tacit knowledge could be elicited from a team of supervisors.
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Sukumaran, S., Rahim, A., Chandran, K. (2013). Knowledge Elicitation Using Activity Theory and Delphi Technique for Supervision of Projects. In: Uden, L., Herrera, F., Bajo Pérez, J., Corchado Rodríguez, J. (eds) 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations: Service and Cloud Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30867-3_12
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