An Approach for a Bidding Process Knowledge Capitalization

Preparation and negotiation of innovative and future projects can be characterized as a strategic-type decision situation, involving many uncertainties and an unpredictable environment. We will focus in this paper on the bidding process. It includes cooperative and strategic decisions. Our approach for bidding process knowledge capitalization is aimed at information management in project-oriented organizations, based on the MUSIC (Management and Use of Co-operative Information Systems) model. We will show how to capitalize the company strategic knowledge and also how to organize the corporate memory. The result of the adopted approach is improvement of corporate memory quality.

Authors:

• R. Chalal
• A. R. Ghomari

Keywords:

• Bidding process
• corporate memory
• Knowledge capitalization
• knowledge acquisition
• strategic decisions.

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