A pragmatic approach towards leveraging employee competences by use of semantic web technologies

Felix Ocker; Birgit Vogel-Heuser

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.110

A pragmatic approach towards leveraging employee competences by use of semantic web technologies

Felix Ocker, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Chair of Automation and Information Systems

Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

Global competition in combination with the increasing specialization of labor requires organizations to leverage their employees' competences. The approach presented in this paper empowers organizations to do so in two ways. First, we give employers a lean tool to allocate their employees to current and upcoming projects and make informed decisions whether they should take on new projects. Secondly, we provide the means to identify potential areas for innovation by identifying blind spots of technology transfer. The approach presented relies on semantic web technologies, i.e. an ontology built in OWL and SPARQL queries. To increase usability, we realized a user interface based on a semi-formalized spreadsheet and a python script for the transformation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1045-1054
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
Volume	2019-August
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.110
State	Published - 2019
Event	22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2019 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 8 Aug 2019

Keywords

Creativity
Employee Allocation
Innovation
Knowledge management
Ontologies

UN SDGs

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A pragmatic approach towards leveraging employee competences by use of semantic web technologies

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