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Strategic Management of Information SystemsFifth Edition
Business Analytics and Knowledge Management
Keri Pearlson and Carol Saunders
Chapter 11
PowerPoint® files by Michelle M. RamimHuizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship
Nova Southeastern University(c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Learning Objectives
• Understand the difference between data, information, and
knowledge.
• Define how tacit knowledge differs from explicit
knowledge.
• Describe why knowledge management is so important.
• Understand how knowledge is generated and captured.
• Describe a knowledge map.
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Real World Example
• Harrah’s found a way to double revenues by collecting and
then analyzing customer data.
• They mine their customer data completely.
• They use loyalty cards to track customer behavior and to
identify high-revenue customers.
• Harrah’s determined that these customers were motivated by
reduced hotel room rates and wanted quick service.
• They found ways to reduce lines and wait time.
• High-revenue customers rarely waited in any line.
• They found ways to keep customers coming back.
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Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, and Business Analytics
• Knowledge management has been invigorated and enabled by:o new technologies for collaborative systems.
o the emergence of the Internet and intranets.
o large, geographically-distributed knowledge repositories.
o well-publicized successes of companies using business analytics
(e.g., Caesars).
o Established sources.
• Anthropology, cognitive psychology, management, sociology, artificial intelligence, IT, and library science.
• Knowledge management is an emerging discipline.
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Knowledge Management
• Knowledge management includes the processes necessary to
generate, capture, codify, and transfer knowledge across the
organization to achieve competitive advantage.
• Individuals are the ultimate source of organizational knowledge.
• To obtain the full value of knowledge, it must be captured and
transferred across the organization.
• Business intelligence (BI):o is a set of technologies and processes that use data to understand and
analyze business performance.
o is a management strategy used to create a more structured approach to
decision making.
o analyzes information collected in company databases, extracting knowledge
from data.
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Business Intelligence
• Business intelligence can be considered a component of knowledge
management.
• Davenport and Harris suggest that business analytics refers to
the use of quantitative and predictive models as well as fact-based
management to drive decisions.
• A sustainable competitive advantage lies in what employees know
and how they apply that knowledge to business problems.
• Knowledge must serve the broader goals of the organization.
o How the information is used and how the knowledge is linked back
to business processes are important components of knowledge
management.
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Intellectual Property
• Intellectual capital is knowledge that has been identified,
captured, and leveraged to produce higher-value goods or services or
some other competitive advantage for the firm.o Knowledge management and intellectual capital are often used imprecisely
and interchangeably.
• Information technology (IT): o provides an infrastructure for capturing and transferring knowledge.
o does not create knowledge.
o cannot guarantee knowledge sharing or use.
• Intellectual property allows individuals to own their creativity
and innovation in the same way that they can own physical property.
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Intellectual Property (Cont.)
• Information-based property differs from physical property in
two ways:o It is non-exclusive.
• When one person uses it, it can be used again by another person.
o The marginal cost of producing additional copies of information-
based property is negligible compared with the cost of original
production.
• These characteristics create differences in the ethical
treatment of physical and information-based intellectual
property.
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Intellectual Property (Cont.)
• Intellectual property enables owners to be rewarded for the use of
their ideas.o It allows them to have a say in how their ideas are used.
• Owners are granted intellectual property rights.
• Some protection such as copyright arises automatically.
• Types of intellectual property:o Patents for inventions.
o Trademarks for brand identity.
o Designs for product appearance.
o Copyrights. • Copyrights apply to literary and artistic material, music, films, sound
recordings, broadcasts, and software.
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Copyright Act
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) makes it a
crime to circumvent copy protection—even if that copy protection
impairs rights established by the Audio Home Recording Act.
• The Digital Tech Corps Act of 2002 bans employees from
revealing trade secrets during their lifetime and imposes a criminal
penalty of up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
• The Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement
in the U.S. Department of Commerce coordinates the battle against
global piracy of intellectual property.
• The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act
(PIPA) were introduced to protect intellectual property.
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Data, Information, and Knowledge
• The terms data, information, and knowledge are often used
interchangeably (Figure 11.1).
• Data are specific, objective facts or observations.
o Facts have no intrinsic meaning but can be easily captured,
transmitted, and stored electronically.
• Information is defined by Peter Drucker as “data endowed with
relevance and purpose.”
• People turn data into information by organizing them into some unit
of analysis.o This involves interpreting the context of the data and summarizing it into a
more condensed form.
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Figure 11.1 The relationships between data, information, and knowledge.
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Components of Knowledge
• Knowledge is:
o a mix of contextual information, experiences, rules, and values (Figure
12.2).
o both richer and deeper than information.
o more valuable because it includes someone’s unique experience,
judgment, and wisdom.
• Three different types of knowing: o Knowing what:
• based on assembling information and applying it.
o Knowing how:• focuses on applying knowledge.
o Knowing why:• is synthesized through a reasoning process.• is the casual knowledge of why something occurs.
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Know-Why
Know-What Know-HowApplication
Experience
Information Procedure
Reasoning
Figure 11.2 Taxonomy of knowledge.
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Components of Knowledge (Cont.)
• Values and beliefs determine the interpretation and the
organization of knowledge.
• Davenport and Prusak say:o “The power of knowledge to organize, select, learn, and judge comes from
values and beliefs as much as, and probably more than, from information
and logic.”
• Computers work well for managing data but are less efficient at
managing information.
• Managing knowledge has become far more complex because of:
o a greater amount of knowledge to manage.
o more powerful tools available to manage knowledge.
• Managing knowledge provides value to organizations in many ways
(Figure 11.3).
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Figure 11.3 The value of managing knowledge.
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Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge
• Tacit knowledge:
o was first described by Michael Polyani:• “We can know more than we can tell.”
o is personal, context-specific, and hard to formalize and communicate.
o consists of experiences, beliefs, and skills.
o is entirely subjective.
o is acquired through physically practicing a skill or activity.
• Explicit knowledge:
o is the focus of IT.
o is knowledge that can be easily collected, organized, and transferred through
digital means such as a memorandum or financial report.
o gained from reading this textbook is objective, theoretical, and codified for
transmission in a formal, systematic method using grammar, syntax, and the
printed word.
• Individuals possess both tacit and explicit knowledge (Figure 11.4).(c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Figure 11.4 Examples of explicit and tacit knowledge.
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Knowledge Conversion
• Knowledge conversion strategies are often of interest in the
business environment.
• Companies want to:
o take an expert’s tacit knowledge and make it explicit.
o take a new hire’s explicit book-learning and make it tacit.
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Modes of Knowledge Conversion
• Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi developed four different
modes of knowledge conversion (Figure 11.5):
o Socialization - from tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge.• Socialization is the process of sharing experiences.
– It occurs through observation, imitation, and practice. – Common examples include sharing war stories,
apprenticeships, conferences, and casual, unstructured discussions in the office or “at the water cooler.”
o Externalization - from tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.
o Combination - from explicit knowledge to explicit knowledge.
o Internalization - from explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.
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Figure 11.5 The four modes of knowledge conversion.
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Knowledge Management Processes
• Four main knowledge management processes: o Knowledge generation:
• Includes all activities that discover “new” knowledge—whether such knowledge is new to the individual, the firm, or the entire discipline.
o Knowledge capture:• Involves continuous processes of scanning, organizing, and
packaging knowledge after it has been generated.
o Knowledge codification:• The representation of knowledge in a manner that can be
easily accessed and transferred.
o Knowledge transfer:• Involves transmitting knowledge from one person or group to
another and the absorption of that knowledge.
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Knowledge Management Processes (Cont.)
• Without absorption, a transfer of knowledge does not
occur.
• Generation, codification, and transfer generally take place
constantly without management intervention.
• Knowledge management systems:o seek to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of these
activities and leverage their value for the firm and the
individual.
o continually evolve into new and more robust systems for
managing and using knowledge.
• Knowledge management processes are different in the age
of Web 2.0 and robust search tools such as Google.
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Modern Knowledge ManagementSystems
• Traditional knowledge management systems had well-defined
processes for generation, capture, codification, and transfer.
• Large data warehouses, ubiquitous websites, search tools, and
tagging make it possible to capture and find information without the
formal processes.
• Tagging is: o when users list key words that codify the information or document at hand,
creating an ad-hoc codification system.
o sometimes referred to as a folksonomy.
• Modern technologies have replaced traditional knowledge
management systems.
• Individuals have the ability to find information that traditionally was
locked within structures that had to be designed, managed, and then
taught to users.
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Business Intelligence
• Traditional business intelligence (BI) provides dashboards and
reports to assist managers in monitoring key performance metrics.
• BI systems include reporting, querying, dashboards, and scorecards.
o Dashboards:• are simple online displays of key metrics often graphically
displayed in pie charts, bar charts, red-yellow-green coded data, and other images.
• easily convey both the value of the metric and—via the color coding—if the metric is within acceptable parameters.
• BI is useful for strategic, tactical, and operational decisions.
• BI 2.0, or collaborative BI: o is the next generation of business intelligence.
o incorporates a more proactive perspective.
o provides for querying of real-time data.
o provides visualization and analytics tools.
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Competing with Business Analytics
• Many companies in many industries offer similar products and use
comparable technologies.
• Business processes are among the last remaining points of
differentiation.
• Davenport and Harris suggest companies that successfully
compete using their business analytics skills have five capabilities:o Hard to duplicate.
o Uniqueness.
o Adaptability.
o Better than the competition.
o Renewability.
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Components of Business Analytics
• Companies make a significant investment in their technologies, their people,
and their strategic decision-making processes.
• Four components of business analytics (Figure 11.6):o A data repository.
o Software tools.
o An analytics environment.
o A skilled workforce.
• Data Repositories.o Data used in the analytical processes must be gathered, cleaned up, common,
integrated, and stored for easy access.
• Data warehouses:o are collections of data designed to support management decision making.
o sometimes serve as repositories of organizational knowledge.
o contain a wide variety of data used to create a coherent picture of business conditions
at a single point in time.
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Figure 11.6 Components of business analytics.
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Software Tools
• Data mining: o is the process of analyzing data warehouses for “gems” that can be used in
management decision making.
o identifies previously unknown relationships among data.
o refers to combing through massive amounts of customer data to understand
buying habits and to identify new products, features, and enhancements.
• The analysis may help a business better understand its customers.
• There are four categories of tools:
o Statistical analysis.
o Forecasting/extrapolation.
o Predictive modeling.
o Optimization.
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Analytics Environment
• Building an environment that supports and encourages analytics is a
critical component.
o IS strategy and organizational strategy must be aligned with the
business strategy.
o Corporate culture, incentive systems, metrics used to measure
success of initiatives, and processes for using analytics must be
aligned with the objective of building competitive advantage
through analytics.
• Leadership plays a big role in creating a strong analytics
environment.
o Leaders must move the company’s culture toward an evidence-
based management approach in which evidence and facts are
analyzed as the first step in decision making.
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Skilled Workforce
• It is clear that to be successful with analytics, data and
technology must be used.
o People must be involved.
• Managers must have enough knowledge of analytics to use
them in their decision making.
• Leaders must set an example for the organization.
• Some hire experts to use analytics software.
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BI Competitive Advantage
• Companies tend to fall into one of 5 levels of maturity with analytical
capabilities (Figure 11.7).
• There is a very large amount of data amassing in databases.
• Big data: techniques and technologies that make it economical to deal
with very large datasets at the extreme end of the scale.
o Large datasets are desirable because of the potential trends and analytics
that can be extracted.
o Specialized computers and tools are needed to mine the data.
o Big data is more common because of the rich, unstructured data streams
that are created by social IT.
o Big data problems occur in simulations, scientific research, Internet
searches, customer data management, and financial market analytics.
• Social IT supplies unique customer intelligence.
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Figure 11.7 Analytical capabilities maturity levels.
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Social Analytics or Social MediaAnalytics • Social analytics:
o Is a set of tools developed to measure the impact of the social IT investments on
the business.
o analyzes conversations, tweets, blogs, and other social IT data to create
meaningful, actionable facts.
• Social analytics vendors include Google Analytics and Radian6
(Salesforce.com).
o Radian6’s platform tools enable:• listening to the community.• learning who is in the community.• engaging people in the community.• tracking what is being said.
o Google Analytics is a set of social analytics tools that enables organizations to
analyze their website and include:• website testing and optimizing.• search optimization.• search term interest and insights.• advertising support and management.
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Caveats for Managing Knowledge andBusiness Intelligence
• Knowledge management and business intelligence continue to
be emerging disciplines.
• Knowledge is not always visible or available.
• Nurturing a culture that values learning and sharing of knowledge
enables effective and efficient knowledge management.
• The success of knowledge management ultimately depends on a
personal and organizational willingness to learn.
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Chapter 11 - Key Terms
Big data (p. 341) - techniques and technologies that make it
economical to deal with very large datasets at the extreme end of
the scale.
Business analytics (p. 327) - the use of quantitative and
predictive
models as well as fact-based management to drive decisions.
Business intelligence (p. 327) - a set of technologies and
processes that
use data to understand and analyze business performance.
Data (p. 330) - specific, objective facts or observations.
Data mining (p. 339) - the process of analyzing data
warehouses for
“gems” that can be used in management decision making.
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Chapter 11 - Key Terms (Cont.)
Data warehouses (p. 338) - collections of data designed to support
management decision making; sometimes serve as repositories of
organizational knowledge.
Explicit knowledge (p. 334) - knowledge that can be easily
collected,
organized, and transferred through digital means such as a
memorandum
or financial report.
Externalization (p. 334) - articulating and thereby capturing tacit
knowledge through use of metaphors, analogies, and models.
Evidence-based management (p. 341) - an approach in which
evidence and
facts are analyzed as the first step in decision making.
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Chapter 11 - Key Terms (Cont.)
Folksonomy (p. 335) - an ad-hoc codification system created by
users.
Information (p. 330) - data with a context.
Intellectual capital (p. 328) - knowledge that has been identified,
captured, and leveraged to produce higher-value goods or services
or
some other competitive advantage for the firm.
Intellectual property (p. 328) - allows individuals to own their
creativity
and innovation in the same way that they can own physical property.
Knowledge (p. 331) - mix of contextual information, experiences,
rules, and
values. It is richer and deeper than information and more valuable
because
someone has thought deeply about that information and added his or
her own
unique experience, judgment, and wisdom.
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Chapter 11 - Key Terms (Cont.)
Knowledge capture (p. 335) - the continuous processes of scanning,
organizing, and packaging knowledge after it has been generated.
Knowledge codification (p. 335) - the representation of knowledge in
a manner that can be easily accessed and transferred.
Knowledge generation (p. 335) - all activities that discover “new”
knowledge—whether such knowledge is new to the individual, the
firm, or the entire discipline.
Knowledge management (p. 327) - the processes necessary to
generate, capture, codify, and transfer knowledge across the
organization to achieve competitive advantage.
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Chapter 11 - Key Terms (Cont.)
Knowledge transfer (p. 335) - involves transmitting knowledge from
one person or group to another and the absorption of that knowledge.
Social analytics (p. 342) - a set of tools developed to measure the
impact of the social IT investments on the business.
Socialization (p. 335) - the process of sharing experiences; occurs
through observation, imitation, and practice.
Tacit knowledge (p. 332) - knowledge that is personal, context-
specific, and hard to formalize and communicate; consists of
experiences, beliefs, and skills.
Tagging (p. 335) - users list key words that codify the information or
document at hand, creating an ad-hoc codification system.
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