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Intellectual Capital Management Using Knowledge Scorecards: The Austrian National Defence Academy Showcase

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This paper discusses the applicability of knowledge scorecards and intellectual capital management for monitoring and steering of knowledge-driven organizations based upon a practice project at the Austrian Defence Academy (in particular the School for Atomic, Biological and Chemical Defence). Within this project the model-driven approach PROMOTE® has been applied to develop the knowledge scorecard at the Austrian National Defence Academy. The paper presents the knowledge scorecard architecture, the method and the findings.

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Göllner, J., Mak, K., Woitsch, R. (2010). Intellectual Capital Management Using Knowledge Scorecards: The Austrian National Defence Academy Showcase. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_23

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