Objective The environment in which modern organizations operate is undergoing a major paradigm shift fuelled by the pervasiveness of ICT and the increasing popularity of social computing. An ever-growing number of organizations are adopting a model of social business, making active use of social media to communicate and engage with key stakeholders. The new social business mindset is redefining many aspects of organizational operations, including how organizations perceive knowledge management. A new, social model of knowledge management (social KM) is becoming increasingly prevalent. Focus is increasingly shifting away from how to best capture and allow access to knowledge, into how to enable knowledge-generating interactions between individuals in the most effective way. In parallel, cloud computing presents new opportunities for developing and provisioning organizational support systems which are always available and facilitate economies of scale.In line with these developments, KnowHow aims to demonstrate a novel Knowledge Management Platform as a Service (KM-PaaS) environment for social business applications, and to prepare the ground for its commercial exploitation.The four main objectives of the KnowHow project are:1. To analyze the social business market environment and to assess the commercialization opportunities for a novel KM-PaaS offering.2. To carry out scale-up activities critical to achieve industrial-grade strength for the KnowHow KM-PaaS, and to implement four new technological solutions based on the platform.3. To validate the KnowHow KM-PaaS through trials in the domains of collaborative innovation, social enterprise, supply chain networking, and social media marketing.4. To develop business plans and marketing strategies supporting the participating SMEs in commercializing the KnowHow KM-PaaS and the results of the trials.The KnowHow consortium consists of 5 partners from 4 EU member states: Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, and Italy. Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2013-3 - Demonstration activity Call for proposal FP7-SME-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator CAS SOFTWARE AG Address Cas weg 1-5 76131 Karlsruhe Germany See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Tanja Rinke (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 339 280,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 333 472,00 Address Kingston hill 5-7 KT2 7PW Kingston See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Adriane Rinsche (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window SYRIA INFORMATICA SRL Italy EU contribution € 322 775,96 Address Via oriani barnaba 1 20156 Milano See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Raffaele Iaccarino (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window S POYLIMENOS KAI SYNERGATES OE Greece EU contribution € 261 744,00 Address Bas alexandrou 30 15121 Peyki See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Stamatios Poulimenos (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window IDEAS FORWARD LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 309 648,16 Address The courtyard shoreham road upper beeding BN44 3TN Steyning See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dimitrios Kourtesis (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
