Knowledge Management In The Construction Side Project Post-evaluation Study

In knowledge economy era, capital and workforce had been replaced by knowledge as the most important strategic resource of competition. Therefore, Knowledge Management (KM) becomes a necessarily managerial tool to improve the existing and competitive ability. Post-evaluation of the project is the most important stages in which contractor summarize experiences and knowledge in project implementation course. But most of contractors did not manage knowledge effectively in this stage. Writer compares and analyzes the KM case of British Petroleum Company and Taiwan Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE Inc), summarizes experiences and lessons, and draws up the complete project of KM in post-evaluation. Hope it can conduct contractor to manage knowledge in post-evaluation and improve working efficiency and competitive ability.It is the premise of successful KM that KM is operated in working procedure. At first, contractors should change traditional post-evaluation way in the light of KM. Ascertain time of post-evaluation, restructure process, add contents, and form post-evaluation related to KM.KM undertaken by constructor in post-evaluation is to regard knowledge as a center and executed by operating process of KM. Process of KM includes six links that are identification, acquisition, creation, store, use and share of the knowledge. The object of KM is obtained by operated there links repeatedly and alternatively.Organizational construction affects KM of contractor greatly. It includes formulation of KM strategy, development of enterprise culture directed by knowledge, adjustment of organizational framework, establishment of salary system, addition of professional staff and evaluation of KM effects. Strategy point out direction of KM, enterprise culture and salary system conduct KM work of staff, organizational framework offer conditions of KM operation, professional staff promote operation of KM, evaluation help enterprise to improve work of KM. Organizational construction offers conditions and system guarantee to operation of KM process.Information technology (IT) is another important factor that influence operation of KM. IT offers hardware that operation of KM procedure needs. Contractor must depend on modern information and communication technologies to construct knowledge...