Small European companies compete on the basis of their know-how and hence need to utilize knowledge to their advantage. They are constrained by scarcity of resources and they thus need to do more, with less. However, knowledge management programs used by large organisations tend to be expensive, relatively inflexible and unsuitable for European knowledge-intensive SMEs. Traditional knowledge management usually focus on top-down, rigid and tightly controlled knowledge repositories. On the other hand, the increasing need of European knowledge-intensive SMEs for loosely-coupled collaboration, ad hoc knowledge sharing and utilisation, and open innovation structures, has led to a strong requirement for a next generation knowledge management system that manages and promotes social structures.
OrganiK (Grant Agreement number: 222225) will combine social software applications and semantic technology in order to develop an innovative knowledge management approach for European SMEs. The project will deliver a set of semantically-integrated social software tools, a well-tested and documented methodology for their application, and a set of five reference applications in use at the participating SMEs.
