34 Organizational Resource Management
are global and functions can be globally dispersed. A repository containing organi-
zational resource ontologies becomes the inventory of knowledge assets that an orga-
nization has, following the vision of Nonaka etal. This is indeed the most important
asset! Table 3.2 lists organizational resource ontologies in the Evolute ontology
repository with the current language translations. The content of the repository is
evolving and today’s status can be observed at http://www.evolutellc.com/tools.aspx.
The developer’s name and references are also listed.
In addition, there are several ontology researches in progress, for example, in
the areas of knowledge management, new product development, logistics, out