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The production sector has been radically affected by developments in the knowledge of the project management. Therefore, it is important to improve the services production processes in any project. This research aimed to enhance production of cement manufacture by implementing knowledge management principles along with a project management improvement program as mediator. The study was carried out at different cement manufactures in Canada. To enable the study to measure production improvement at cement businesses, the researchers used four knowledge management aspects, first is technology infrastructure, second is human resource, third is knowledge sharing, and fourth is organizational culture along with project management improvement program as a mediator. The researchers employed quantitative research method via using a survey to measure the current study. The questionnaire was distributed randomly among 150 administrative employees of different cement manufacture in Canada. However, the researchers were able to gather 139 completed questionnaires. The study applied hierarchal multiple regression analysis and Sobel test to measure developed research hypotheses. The findings revealed that all knowledge management principles (technology infrastructure, human resource, knowledge sharing, and organizational culture) had direct positive and significant relationship with enhanced production at cement manufactures at Canada. Moreover, the findings showed that all knowledge management principles with mediator factor (project management improvement program) had indirect positive and significant relationship with enhanced production at cement manufactures at Canada.

Purpose This study aims to avail architects with the potentials of knowledge management (KM) principles towards an optimal and effective procedural mechanism for the choice of building materials during design and construction processes. Design/methodology/approach In all, 202 questionnaire forms were distributed in a survey. They were administered to practicing architects and Architectural firms in Nigeria. Thereafter, ANOVA, regression analysis and exploratory factor analysis with reliability and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.861 identified KM principles in specification writing for architects. Findings These findings show that the building material selection procedure can be optimized with efficient and conscious consideration of KM principles imbibed by architects in tune with global trends. The study serves as a guide to architects and other stakeholders on the effect of KM principles in deepening reflectiveness of the surpassing role of effective KM in specification writing in the construction industry. Originality/value This is perhaps the first empirical research that sought to understudy knowledge sharing strategies in architectural firms within the context of the study location Nigeria. The value of the research lies in optimization of architects’ building materials’ specification strategy through KM principles.

Managing knowledge is the most important part of every enhanced process. Well-adjusted knowledge management leads to effective way of sharing knowledge, its comprehension, visualization and managing other processes connected to it. New trend in the field of Civil Engineering and Building Design is BIM – Building Information Modeling. Management of Building Information Modeling is very current topic linked with the creation of building modeling and knowledge sharing processes used by the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry-AEC industry. BIM Technology uses a huge amount of data and information about the building throughout its lifecycle. We can divide the whole building lifecycle into three main phases: the phase of the project construction (design and realization), the operational phase and the liquidation phase. For effective project development, it is necessary to manage knowledge, the same in the phase of Facility Management and liquidation phase too. This paper reveals the possible way using Knowledge Management principles in the BIM Technology throughout building lifecycle and its phases.

XYZ Corporation implements “Khatulistiwa” Program as one of its Employee Development Programs (EDP) which main purpose is to accelerate learning process for fresh graduate new employees in the first five years of their career. Based on the survey result and the focus group discussion, there are two valid root causes of the problem, which are training planning process quality and training execution quality. The focus group discussion also resulted in business solutions to solve the problem by considering KM Metrics (Participation, Capture and Reuse) including: improve planning process and availability of training information by improving web-based information system, add more Guided Experience (GE) program and utilize IBU Subject Matter Expert (SME) to reduce dependency on overseas instructor as well as to encourage participation, capture and reuse of information within business unit, and using technology for implementing long distance learning (tele-conference training, etc). Research paper Keywords: Employee development, knowledge management, training planning process, training execution Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Pringgabayu, D., & Wirakanda, G.G. (2018). Improving Technical Training Performance with Knowledge Management Principles, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business and Economics, 6(1),92–115.

the paper continues the research started in the paper “Conception and fabrication using knowledge management principles”. The theoretical guidelines found in the mentioned paper crystallises at a practical level in an original product – a software solution. The proposed solution has as a central element notion concerning the design and manufacturing of straight axes in the automotive industry. The application field for the proposed example regards the educational area; the software guides the user by theoretical concepts, examples, problems through practical aspects concerning the design and manufacturing of a part belonging to the axes family specific to the automotive industry. The software was developed using the Access work environment.

Knowledge management is a reality nowadays, a powerful resource and one of the premises that provides efficiency and decisional support to any approach no matter of the specific domain were we apply the knowledge management principles. Knowledge models, the specific instruments of the knowledge management represent the start point of this paper, in which we present some aspects regarding the conception and fabrication using knowledge models in the automotive industry field. The approach starts with a short presentation of some knowledge models from the technical area and in the final part of the paper we present the guiding lines for a proposed knowledge model.

Safety impacts on the lives of every person, every day, at home, travelling to work, at work and in recreation. Unfortunately, at times when safety breaks down people get injured and sometimes are killed. Work is an all too common place where these break downs occur. Every year in Australia, hundreds of people die at work and many more are permanently disabled; their lives and the lives of those around them will never be the same again. There have been many approaches by state and federal governments, unions and organisations to try and reduce this avoidable financial and moral cost to both society and workers alike. There are acts and regulations in every state with strict rules and harsh penalties for non-compliance. There are thousands of pages of associated codes of practice, guidelines and standards that support these legal requirements. Unions have worked hard for many years to push occupational health and safety through governments and organisations. Organisations have implemented many procedures, policies and standards themselves recognising the huge financial and legal exposure of poor safety. There has been many days of safety training both internally and externally provided to thousands of employees, which continues every day. Safety leadership has been driven through many large organisations to ensure management and employees alike understand the importance and reason for safety. Technology has played an important part contributing to drastic improvements in both mobile and fixed equipment to minimise the risk of an injury in such higher risk situations. In more recent times, concepts like behaviour-based safety and positive performance indicators have been introduced to improve safety. Indeed, all of these approaches have reduced the risk of injury in the workplace significantly. Nevertheless, hundreds of injuries and serious incidents occur every day, many of which could have been avoided. Hence, more needs to be done and the vision of an injury free workplace should never be forgotten. This study examines safety management and current practices to see if there is a better way than current approaches and how safety can be improved further from an overall strategic approach. It investigates whether another field, knowledge management, can be used to improve safety management performance. To do this, firstly an initial conceptual model was developed after an exploratory analysis and literature review. A comprehensive longitudinal study was then carried out in a large national Australian organisation to test the research question as to whether the practical application of knowledge management principles to safety can improve safety performance. The study involved methodical triangulation to combine a range of qualitative and quantitative data. The study, which ran over three years, positively supported the research question that knowledge management can be used to improve safety performance. This was achieved through applying sixteen practical safety applications using knowledge management principles. From this finding an overall framework and approach was developed which can be used by other organisations to improve their safety performance even further towards best practice. It is hoped that through this outcome that many other serious injuries and incidents are prevented, creating a better society and saving the lives and livelihoods of many more workers.

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless, such retrofitting proves challenging due to the fact that the industry has ignored the need to manage project knowledge in retrofitting these buildings. This has arguably made decision-making difficult for key stakeholders because lesson learned are not captured in low energy retrofit projects. Managing project knowledge has been established as essential in delivering low energy building retrofit projects through decision-making hence an informed decision support framework (IDSF) has been developed. The methodology employed in development of IDSF is through literature review covering, among other things, knowledge management (KM) principles and procedures. The IDSF will help improve decision-making capabilities of key stakeholders involved in low-energy building retrofit projects to make informed and appropriate decisions. It will also help to avoid post-decision mistakes in low energy building retrofit projects. Furthermore, IDSF will assist in the development of decision support system (DSS) that will be used for making informed and sound decisions in achieving low-energy retrofit projects and also help in full uptake of retrofit projects.

Indigenous knowledge is one form of knowledge; the other is scientific knowledge. Indigenous knowledge is local knowledge unique to a given culture or society. By its very nature, it is not generally viewed in the business sense as "capital ". It has tended to be "exclusive ", at times susceptible to suspicion and abuse. Knowledge management involves the processing and handling of intellectual capital within and between organisations and communities. Itfacilitates knowledge generation, sharing and reuse. This paper addresses the extent to which knowledge management methodologies and principles can be used to manage indigenous knowledge for the benefit of all.

Developed in the business sector, where it proved to increase employee motivation, enhance customer support services and overall business efficiency, Knowledge Management found its way to higher education institutions. This paper tries to argument the benefits of using KM principles when designing an e-learning platform as well as point out a few practical implementations.

This article applies the concepts of knowledge management to diagnostic and procedural coding performed by health care providers. The process of diagnostic and procedural coding is both an art and a science. In particular, the information stored away in the minds of individuals performing the coding function is ripe for the basis of an effective knowledge Health Information Management (HIM) coding management system. In this article, we explore the issues and processes that HIM professionals can take advantage of in standardizing the coding function.