Added Value of Sociofact Analysis for Business Agility

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Riss, Uwe V.
Magenheim, Johannes
Reinhardt, Wolfgang
Nelkner, Tobias
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2011
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AI for Business Agility. AAAI 2011 Spring Symposium
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Technical Report
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The AAAI Press
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Menlo Park
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The increasing agility of business requires an accelerated adaptation of organizations to continuously changing conditions. Individual and organizational learning are prominent means to achieve this. Hereby learning is always accompanied by the development of knowledge artifacts. For the entire of learning and artifact development the term knowledge maturing has been introduced recently, which focuses on these three manifestations of knowledge: cognifacts, sociofacts, and artifacts. In this paper we will focus on sociofacts as the subject-bound knowledge manifestation of social actions. Sociofacts are rooted in respective cognifacts play an independent role due to their binding to collective actions and subjects. These are particularly difficult to grasp but play a decisive role for the performance of organizations and the collaboration in there. The presented paper approaches the notion of sociofacts, discusses them on a theoretical level and establishes a first formal notation for sociofacts. We use the case of a merger between two companies to describe the advantages of sociofact analysis for such process. Some sociofact related problems during a merger are described and possible solutions are presented. We identify technical approaches for seizing sociofacts from tool-mediated social interaction and discuss open question for future research.
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knowledge management
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330 - Wirtschaft
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HINKELMANN, Knut, Uwe V. RISS, Johannes MAGENHEIM, Wolfgang REINHARDT und Tobias NELKNER, 2011. Added Value of Sociofact Analysis for Business Agility. In: Knut HINKELMANN und Barbara THÖNSSEN (Hrsg.), AI for Business Agility. AAAI 2011 Spring Symposium. Menlo Park: The AAAI Press. 2011. Technical Report. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-116