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Planning for a Successful Corporate Wiki

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Digital Enterprise and Information Systems (DEIS 2011)

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Corporate wikis are increasingly being adopted by enterprises as a solution to various organizational processes. Subsequently a significant number of research works have started focusing on providing results on both successful and unsuccessful corporate wiki implementations. Nevertheless, the scope of these studies is usually limited on a specific organizational case or focuses on a limited set of aspects of the wiki adoption, e.g. either the technological or the cultural one. Our objective in this work is to provide an overview of the key factors affecting the successful implementation of an organizational wiki, by analyzing thirty case studies reported in the research literature. The result of this analysis is the identification of a core set of common best practices to be taken into account by stakeholders when planning the integration of a wiki within a corporate context. In this way, the study aims at contributing to the planning and the realization of more successful corporate wiki implementations with enterprise environments.

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  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9, GR 15780, Athens, Greece

    Foteini Dagka

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Lykourentzou, I., Djaghloul, Y., Papadaki, K., Dagka, F., Latour, T. (2011). Planning for a Successful Corporate Wiki. In: Ariwa, E., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Enterprise and Information Systems. DEIS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22603-8_38

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