Toward a knowledge-based framework to foster innovation in networked organisations

Abstract

To foster innovation management in enterprises willing for competitive advantage in the near future, managers should be aware about and make use of well-adapted information technology solutions. Such assertion is specially emphasized in networked organizations, such as the virtual, extended or distributed enterprises, and provides several open questions guiding to sensible research efforts. The paper particularly focuses on a basic question: how information technology can be used to recover the individual knowledge, the intellectual capital, and transform it into products and services that can be exploited by the organisation? In this sense, an IT-based framework is proposed to basically support the life cycle of knowledge in networked organizations.