Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878289985 ISBN 13: 9781878289988

Publisher: Igi Global, 2015

Synopsis

We are living in interesting times characterized by increasing digitalization of business enterprises in a global interconnected knowledge economy. With waning euphoria about the first wave of digital e-business enterprises and a sobering dot-com stock market, business model innovation is being recognized as the key enabler that can unleash value creation for new digital enterprises. In contrast to traditional factors of production, knowledge assets and intellectual capital are expected to play a dominant role in determining both valuation and value-creation capabilities of most new age enterprises. Not surprisingly, Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation is anticipated to be the mantra for survival, competence and success of Net enterprises as well as traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises faced with the challenge of transforming their business models into and beyond click-and-mortar companies.

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About the Author

Yogesh Malhotra is the founder, chairman and chief knowledge architect of the WWW-based portal and global virtual communities of practice including @Brint.com: The BizTech Network and Knowledge Management Think Tank. As a professor of E-Business and Knowledge Management, he has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh. As a global thought leader on Knowledge Management and E-Business, he has delivered recent invited keynotes to CIOs in Government of Mexico, hi-tech entrepreneurs and professionals network based in Silicon Valley, Baldrige Quality Award winning U.S. corporations, and global corporate executives at most prestigious industry conferences. He is an invited contributing editor and founding member of the GII's Standard for Internet Commerce and has served on Knowledge Management advisory panels for Arthur Andersen managing partners and Government of Netherlands and as council partner of U.S. Federal Government's Inter-Agency Best Practices Council. He is the lead author of two books Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations and Knowledge Management for Business Model Innovation, has published in numerous leading scholarly and practitioner journals, and presented at leading world-class conferences. He serves as an editor and reviewer for leading information technology publications, is frequently interviewed by the worldwide business and technology media, and is included in the millennium edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. Over the last 18 years, his worldwide professional experience has primarily focused on design, development and strategy for large-scale information technology and engineering systems with Fortune 100 companies, global multinationals and Internet startups. His credentials include Bachelor of Engineering, magna cum laude; MBA, summa cum laude with Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma honors and Ph.D. in Business Administration with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Certified Computing Professional of the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals, a Chartered Engineer and life member of The Institution of Engineers, and award-winning member and doctoral consortium fellow of the Academy of Management.

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"Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation is an important addition to the IS researcher's bookshelf. It brings together the latest thinking on issues at the forefront of teaching innovation and professional imagination." M. Lynne Markus, Professor and Department Chair of Electronic Business, City University of Hong Kong

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We are living in interesting times characterized by increasing digitalization of business enterprises in a global interconnected knowledge economy. With waning euphoria about the first wave of digital e-business enterprises and a sobering dot-com stock market, business model innovation is being recognized as the key enabler that can unleash value creation for new digital enterprises. Evidently, most such new age enterprises will be enabled by Internet-based and WWW-based communication and information technologies. However, enterprises that are 'built to last' and 'built to work' (see recent Fast Company cover story in March 2000 issue for details) will increasingly need to emphasize not only Wall Street analyst valuations but also sustainable value-creation in terms of innovative and sustainable customer value propositions. In contrast to traditional factors of production, increasingly, knowledge assets and intellectual capital are expected to play a dominant role in determining both valuation and value-creation capabilities of most such new age enterprises. Not surprisingly, knowledge management for business model innovation is anticipated to be the mantra for survival, competence and success of pure play Net enterprises as well as relatively traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises faced with the challenge of transforming their business models into - and beyond - click-and-mortar companies.

This very timely compilation of latest knowledge, research and practices contributed by leading worldwide thinkers, experts and practitioners is anticipated to unravel some of the key aspects of knowledge management as the enabler of business model innovation 1. Covering technological, organizational, sociological, behavioral and economic issues related to the above theme, this book is divided into four sections. The first section discusses selected frameworks that can be used by managers and researchers for developing better understanding of knowledge management as an enabler of business model innovation for digital and knowledge-based enterprises. Related discussions focus on knowledge management for e-business model innovation, knowledge assets and organizational learning, strategic perspectives on knowledge management, and use of information technology for intelligent meta-business. The emphasis of the second section is on transformation of post-industrial organizations and transformation of post-industrial paradigm of work toward knowledge-based organizations and knowledge work that characterize innovative business models of the digital economy. In this section distinction between information management and knowledge management is explained, and themes of virtual organizations, virtual teams, communities of practice and mobile work are discussed along with relevant case studies. The focus of the third section is on providing a comprehensive perspective of valuation of knowledge assets and intellectual capital for organizations contemplating or implementing innovative business models. Discussions and case studies in this section relate to valuation of knowledge assets and intellectual capital and are presented in the context of national economies, corporations, virtual organizations, and, inter-organizational partnerships. The last section provides in-depth appreciation of the organizational, behavioral and technological aspects of knowledge management as the enabler of business model innovation. Emphasis of this section is on developing better integration of tools and technologies of knowledge management with the philosophical, behavioral and organizational underpinnings of successful business model innovation as demonstrated in exemplary practitioner case studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Igi Global
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878289985
• ISBN 13: 9781878289988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 453
• Editor: Malhotra Yogesh