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Designing a Competence Management System ‘Knome’ for a Knowledge-Intensive Project Organization

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Tackling Society's Grand Challenges with Design Science (DESRIST 2016)

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Knome is a Competence Management System (CMS) developed during a 33-month long Action Design Research (ADR) program in a knowledge-intensive project organization. It can be used to match customer demand with the present and future competences and interests of the employees. The artifact contains data on every employee of the case organization and most of the information is transparently open to all employees. The ADR program will result in scientific contribution with the generalized design principles of a CMS.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the employees in Siili Solutions for giving their time and sharing their ideas and experiences with us. This study was funded by the Academy of Finland (grant number 259454).

Material. Knome can be accessed from https://knome.siilicloud.com/ and Siili Solutions PLC’s website from http://www.siili.com. Please note that external users (partners and recruits) can only edit their own personal profiles, but employees can see the rest of the features and reports.

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  1. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Erkka Niemi & Sami Laine

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  1. Erkka Niemi
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Correspondence to Erkka Niemi .

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  1. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Canada

    Jeffrey Parsons

  2. University of Jyväskylöä, Jyväskylä yliopisto, Finland

    Tuure Tuunanen

  3. Curtain University, Bentley, Australia

    John Venable

  4. Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co., Kildare, Ireland

    Brian Donnellan

  5. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  6. Intel Labs Europe, Leixlip, Ireland

    Jim Kenneally

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Niemi, E., Laine, S. (2016). Designing a Competence Management System ‘Knome’ for a Knowledge-Intensive Project Organization. In: Parsons, J., Tuunanen, T., Venable, J., Donnellan, B., Helfert, M., Kenneally, J. (eds) Tackling Society's Grand Challenges with Design Science. DESRIST 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9661. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39294-3_18

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