To develop systematic and comprehensive approaches to the organizational process of knowledge management. These approaches are to be built upon the theoretical and methodological tools developed in scientific fields such as sociology, psychology, management, cognitive sciences, neuroscience and information systems and will guide interventions to improve organizational intelligence, creativity, and learning ability.
To develop innovative computer-based systems to support knowledge management in organizations;
To train professionals able to leverage the ability of their organizations for innovation, adaptability and creation of business opportunities, in order to ensure financial, social and environmental well-being.
RESEARCH QUESTION:
How can people, IT tools, structure, culture, and power be connected in order to leverage collective abilities for applying available knowledge to solve problems and search for opportunities (organizational intelligence), accommodating new experience (organizational learning), and producing new ideas and things (organizational creativity) so that the group of organizational members can effectively contribute to the organizational well-being?
