This unique book sets out the conceptual framework for knowledge management and explains how a greater understanding of the subject can help policing at an operational level.
Part I covers the foundations of knowledge management and the key security issues in relation to a "globalized" world of crime and terrorism, Part II looks at the building of structures and the use of applications and Part III integrates the first two parts by providing illustrative examples of working applications of police-specific knowledge management systems.
Drawing on examples from around the world, the...

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology applies the knowledge-based view of the firm, which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies stages of growth model for knowledge management technology, where firms develop from the person-to-tools strategy, via the person-to-person strategy and the person-to-documents strategy, to the person-to-systems strategy. The case of law firms is extensively explored. IS/IT strategy for knowledge management is developed within the framework of the Y model.

E-Business Strategy, Sourcing and Governance is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology. Managers need to have an understanding of strategy development for IS/IT that covers e-business strategy, sourcing of service, and governance of IS/IT decision rights. E-Business Strategy, Sourcing and Governance presents emerging perspectives that influence IS/IT strategy work, such as new e-business models, the growing number of...

The main objective of knowledge management is to support the creation, transfer, and application of knowledge. Researchers and practitioners have emphasized the important role of knowledge management in electronic business and IT outsourcing relationships.Knowledge Management Systems: Value Shop Creation is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage an organization without at least some understanding of knowledge management and knowledge management systems. Knowledge Management Systems: Value Shop Creation combines knowledge management with other subject areas...

Police forces around the world engage in a variety of activities. Many of these activities, such as roadblocks, arrests, and increased police presence in problem areas, are reactive, but there are also many proactive measures involved in police work. Both reactive and proactive measures involve a large amount of information, and police officers need to understand vast amounts of knowledge to carry out their normal duties. This amount of information means that police officers also have to be proficient knowledge workers. Knowledge Management Systems in Law Enforcement: Technologies and...

The CIO position and importance depend on information technology maturity in the organization, value configuration, strategic IT resources, e-business approach, and IT governance structure. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO holds key information in improving a CIO's role, which would then advance his or her chances of moving up into a CEO role.CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO provides analysis within theoretical frameworks and consulting recommendations, and starts with the demand side of CEO successions, specifically...

Emerging business models, value configurations, and information technologies interact over time to create competitive advantage. Modern information technology has to be studied, understood, and applied along the time dimension of months and years, where changes are the rule. Such changes created by interactions between business elements and resources are very well suited for system dynamics modeling.Business Dynamics in Information Technology presents business-technology alignment processes, interaction processes, and decision processes, helping the reader study information technology from a...

Information technology strategies are critical to business as they can deliver not only effective business operations, but also competitively differentiated products and services for firms. Yet many business and government enterprises have found their IT organizations to be misaligned with business strategies, or even worse, so dysfunctional that business values are actually destroyed instead of added.

Improved interoperability between public organizations as well as between public and private organizations is of critical importance to make electronic government more successful. E-Government Interoperability and Information Resource Integration: Frameworks for Aligned Development focuses on the integration of new technologies into digital government, generating new insights into e-government interoperability. This book will benefit systems designers, developers, and programmers in public and private software organizations who need a larger perspective of interoperability when solving...

Managing IT Outsourcing Performance provides a unique collection of methodologies and tools useful in managing relationships and task execution to help in developing successful IT outsourcing interactions. A valuable compilation for a wide audience of managers and developers, this leading reference collection enables researchers to examine current issues and allows managers to improve outsourcing relationships.