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Product Description: The third in the readers series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management Tools analyzes the use of knowledge management tools in the past, present and future. It helps managers and companies utilize what they know...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides the energy manager with the most current information available to move forward with the comprehensive energy management program. Energy auditing, rate structures, economic evaluation techniques, lighting efficiency improvement, HVAC optimization, combustion and use of industrial wastes, steam generation and distribution system performance, control systems and computers, process energy management, maintenance considerations, insulation, renewable energy sources, and industrial water management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A step-by-step guide for turning information into advantage This book describes a ten-step method that empowers companies to transform their information into knowledge, helping managers develop and maintain a balanced knowledge plan, solve information shortfalls, and take advantage of the information at their fingertips. (view table of contents)

Chock-full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments and technologies in knowledge management. Order your copy today! (view table of contents)

Product Description: This eighteenth volume in the Jossey-Bass Organizational Frontiers Series provides an in-depth examination of how I/O psychologists can help find, recruit, and manage knowledge. The authors explain the nature of different types of knowledge, how knowledge-based competition is affecting organizations, and how these ideas relate to innovation and learning in organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning—including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations.  This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly address the most current ideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizational learning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, and industry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leading organizations have contributed their original essays to this provocative collection. Leading Organizational Learning Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledge workers do a better job of influencing upper management Demonstrates the best way to move ideas through an organization Outlines the principles that facilitate knowledge management Explains how people learn on the job Discusses how larger organizations can leverage their “bigness” Proposes a method of knowledge mapping to effectively organize and use knowledge in decisionmaking Outlines the knowledge and attributes integral to the success of today’s executives Discusses passing knowledge from person to person Explains how consultants can help organizations develop ideas Debunks the myths and explores the realities of knowledge management

Based on extensive interviews with key players, a study reveals how the 'knowledge economy' is making slaves of everyone except for a few multinational companies and argues that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, using intellectual property rules. Reprint.

Product Description: This book introduces a new facet for information and knowledge management: corporate literacy refers to the comprehensive literacy that companies and communities need in the networked, fast changing and complex environment. The views relating to organisations and information are changing along with the changes in the operating and information environment...read more

Product Description: Creative Environments follows up on the book Creative Space, by the same authors, who serve this time as editors. The first part further develops models of knowledge creation, in particular the Triple Helix of normal academic knowledge creation and a new, integrated model of normal academic and organizational knowledge creation, called Nanatsudaki (seven waterfalls) Model...read more

Looks afresh at the future of management thinking and practice. This title deals with the challenges facing various organizations.

Product Description: Knowledge Management is a wide, critical and strategic issue for all the com- nies, from the SMEs to the most complex organizations. The key of competiti- ness is knowledge, because of the necessity of reactivity, flexibility, agility and innovation capacities...read more

Product Description: El termino "capital intelectual" se confunde con frecuencia - e incluso indistintamente- con "propiedad intelectual", "tecnologia" o "ideas". "innovacion" de caracter cientifico. Ademas de las ideas e invenciones de naturaleza tecnologica o cientifica, el capital intelectual incluye un enorme acervo de ideas y componentes socioculturales, expresadas en las marcas comerciales, las experiencias del cliente, los modelos de negocio y organizacion e inclusive las cadenas de valor y ecosistemas que las producen...read more

Product Description: As a businessperson, you probably have more data available than ever before. For many, more data just fuels the fire of their love/hate relationship with it. You love it when it gives you good information about how to compete more effectively...read more

Product Description: Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to create such an environment.