The Knowledge Management Fieldbook - Hardcover

Wendi Bukowitz; Ruth L. Williams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273638823 ISBN 13: 9780273638827

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 1999

Synopsis

The first tactical handbook that gives both the ways and means to manage the process that generates useable knowledge assets within an organization.

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From the Back Cover

All the tools and techniques you need to organize, manage, and exploit world-class knowledge management systems in your organization.

• A practical, real-world KM framework from two of the world's leading consultants.
• Covers the entire KM lifecycle: information gathering, knowledge sharing, metrics, and more.
• Assess your KM strengths and weaknesses with the authors' exclusive Knowledge Management Diagnostic!

The Knowledge Management Fieldbook is the hands-on guide for every manager who wants to implement knowledge management — and reap the full rewards. Presented within a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use framework, it offers techniques to streamline every stage of the knowledge management deployment process, from information gathering to knowledge sharing, to measuring the organization's knowledge assets, and beyond.

The book contains case studies based on the authors' original interviews with more than 50 world-class organizations; as well as a structured process for thinking about knowledge management, designed to help managers build a detailed action agenda. The authors' Knowledge Management Diagnostic is an invaluable tool for identifying organizational knowledge strengths and weaknesses; the book also contains extensive practical exercises and action agendas for transforming KM from theory into practical competitive advantage.

For every manager and strategist concerned with generating organizational knowledge and using it more effectively.

About the Author

Wendi R. Bukowitz and Ruth L. Williams are recognized leaders in the field of knowledge management. They founded The Next Generation Research Group at Arthur Andersen, conducting pioneering research on how knowledge management affects leadership, innovation, collaboration, performance measurement, and organizational structure. Their research partners included such leading organizations as Motorola, Shell Oil, The Mutual Group, and The Dow Chemical Company. They are now Directors at PriceWaterhouseCoopers' Intellectual Asset Management practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0273638823
• ISBN 13: 9780273638827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384