This book shows how to turn intangible knowledge into tangible business value by creating an organization that is process, team and community based, and properly ICT enabled. It looks at knowledge management from a non-technical, integrated approach called Value-Based Knowledge Management. It shows how to build meaningful knowledge from the ideas and innovations that reside in company professio…
Knowledge Management is a mission critical concern for all managers of today and tomorrow. In a world where political borders are becoming less significant than organizational borders, we face more competition from regions that never before entered our concerns. Unfortunately, with a global market we are also beginning to suffer under a deluge of data and information, the mass volume of which c…
Until now, implementing Knowledge Management (KM) has been like nailing jelly to the wall-but not anymore! The Knowledge Management Toolkit delivers hands-on techniques and tools for making KM happen at your company. You'll learn exactly how to use KM to make sure that every key decision is fully informed as you build on your existing intranet, data warehouse, and project management investments…
Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers frameworks, models, analyses, case studies and research on the integration of knowledge management within virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual communities of practice. Themes covered in this section include business model innov…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Figures, tables and boxes Contributors 1 An introduction to the sustainable corporation 3 2 Sustainability and sustainable development 19 3 Sustainability - doing it 38 4 Human resources, capabilities and sustainability 55 5 Technologies and processes for human sustainability 78 6 Quality of work, home and community life 103 7 Building corporate capabilities to promot…