Title : 
Peopleware & heartware - The philosophy of knowledge management
         
        
            Author : 
Noordin, Mohamad Fauzan ; Othman, Roslina ; Zakaria, Noor Azura
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. Syst., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The important of knowledgeable workers (peopleware and heartware) in order to achieve success in knowledge management implementation cannot be doubted. They are the core and backbone to the KM practices in the organization. Therefore, proper plans and strategies should be drawn carefully by the organization to winning the peopleware and heartware prior to the KM implementation. Based on the literature review, this study has highlighted the important of knowledge workers as asset in the organization. Additionally, ideas on how to please this asset to cooperate with the organization to ensure the success of KM practices are given.
         
        
            Keywords : 
knowledge management; personnel; KM practices; heartware; knowledge management; knowledgeable workers; peopleware; Companies; Decision making; Knowledge management; Portfolios; Training; Heartware; Knowledge; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Workers; Peopleware;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS), 2011 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kuala Lumpur
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-61284-295-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICRIIS.2011.6125675