Collective Knowledge: Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace

Robert Marcus & Beverley Watters

ISBN 10: 0735614997 / ISBN 13: 9780735614994

Published by Microsoft Press, Redmond WA, 2002

About this Item

Gift quality, a 2nd printing of the first edition of this timeless "how to" book about using intranets and productivity tools to empower knowledge workers. The book is in fine condition, as new. Binding tight and square, with no reading crease in the spine. Boards sharp cornered, unfaded, unmarked and unworn. Pages unmarked and unworn. Not a remainder. The unclipped dust jacket is also in fine condition, as new: whole, unfaded, unmarked and unworn. As with all Space Age Book purchases, I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its proud new owner in the same condition as my description.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collective Knowledge: Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace
• Publisher: Microsoft Press, Redmond WA
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735614997
• ISBN 13: 9780735614994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.25 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business

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Synopsis

Advances in communications and computing, the advent of the Internet, and the proliferation of high-speed computer networks and servers are producing unprecedented improvements in business collaboration and productivity. Knowledge Workers have become an indispensable resource—the productivity engine of the 21st-century—by using technology to streamline the capture and delivery of organizational knowledge to fellow workers worldwide. COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE describes this new Knowledge Workplace, where intellectual capital is a key managed asset and where Web-based collaborative team services, portals for information management and discovery, and broadcast delivery of information to every desktop all help enable constant productivity gains.

• THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Consider the history of knowledge management and propagation, from cuneiform to computing, and the rise of the next-generation intranet.
• THE EMERGENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE WORKPLACE: Read about how the confluence of work and next-generation intranet technology has produced a dynamic productivity ecosystem.
• THE COMPELLING BUSINESS VALUE PROPOSITION: Discover how leading organizations are using intranets to increase productivity and reduce costs.
• INTRANET MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES: Obtain practical guidance for planning, developing, and managing next generation intranets—now and in the future.

About the Author

Beverley Watters is president of TCE Research Solutions in Toronto. She is also executive editor of Information Highways magazine.