Strategic management is defined as the system of action programs which form sustainable competitive advantages for a corporation, its divisions and its business units in a strategic planning period. We have developed a system called Woodstrat to serve as a support system for these action program activities on both the corporate, the divisional and the business unit levels. The system is modular and is built around the logic of strategic management. The innovation in Woodstrat is that these modules are linked together so that essential competitive elements interact to form the strategic management context. The intermodular links are based on expert knowledge on strategic management; and user-developed expert knowledge is also used to guide the users through the process of working out sustainable competitive advantages. The process is made user-supportive with a hyperknowledge user interface.
Index Terms:
strategic planning; business data processing; expert systems; user interfaces; expert systems; case study; knowledge formation processes; strategic management; action programs; sustainable competitive advantages; business units; strategic planning period; Woodstrat; action program activities; business unit levels; competitive elements; intermodular links; user-developed expert knowledge; user-supportive; hyperknowledge user interface
Citation:
P. Walden, C. Carlsson, "Hyperknowledge and expert systems: a case study of knowledge formation processes," hicss, pp.73, 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'95), 1995
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