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Arthur, Michael: Knowledge at Work: Creative Collaboration in the Global Economy, BBC Audiobooks, ISBN: 1405107553
leichte Lagerspuren Pressestimmen\nIn this book the authors bridge a gap in the economic literature with a fresh and lively account of the crucial links among workers, knowledge work, and economic performance. Given the multi-dimensional character of the topic, they do not provide all the answers but they pose questions and guide the reader forward. This book sets the agenda on the knowledge-based economy and the complex relations that drive it. Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell This book provides an extraordinary integration of literature on knowledge work, accompanied by a large number of cases and stories to illustrate underlying ideas. I can think of no book that offers such a stimulating and thought-provoking blend of theory and practice. Both present and future managers will greatly enjoy this book. Lars Lindkvist, Linkoping University Both scholarly and streetwise, this book does a great job in showing what knowledge work means for the lives of the people who do it, and the performance of the organizations that try to manage it. Harry Scarborough, University of Warwick A very impressive account of 'knowledge at work' on several levels of analysis: individual, organization, industry, and community; that successfully connects with managerial practice Joerg Sydow, Free University of Berlin This book provides unique insights into the drivers behind the knowledge economy, showing how individuals, groups, organizations and industries create and use knowledge. It provides an important and highly readable contribution to contemporary understanding of knowledge and learning processes. David Gann, Imperial College London For those of us wilting under the weight of new publications on knowledge and knowledge management this book provides a welcome refuge in what is a busy, crowded and often confusing zone. Not only does it provide a broad ranging and thorough review of the key issues, but it also challenges the reader to reflect on them chapter by chapter. The book recognises what too many others don't that all the company procedures and IT-based knowledge management systems are just tools and that people are at the centre of the knowledge based economy. The strength of the book lies in its grounding in real work examples and in its consistent use of a framework - the knowledge diamond - which highlights the interdependencies of four key participants in knowledge work: individuals, communities, organizations and industries. It should be useful to both knowledge workers themselves and those that study them. Dr Tim Brady, University of Brighton \n\nKurzbeschreibung\nThis book's unique perspective stems from its knowledge diamond framework to examine how individuals, communities, organizations and host industries reciprocally influence each other in the course of knowledge work. This highly topical book focuses on work-based projects as a focus for organizational learning. It establishes the link between individual, community, organization and industry learning. It suggests that organizations need to recognise and understand this link if they are to capitalize on project-based learning. It incorporates material on project-based learning in virtual communities. It refers to different examples, such as the film industry, the software industry and the boat building industry. It includes end-of-chapter questions provoking reflection and discussion. , ISBN-13: 9781405107556

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Carla O'Dell: New Edge in Knowledge, Wiley, März 2011 ISBN: 0470917393
The best thinking and actions in the fast-moving arena of collaboration and knowledge managementThe New Edge in Knowledge captures the most practical and innovative practices to ensure organizations have the knowledge they need in the future and, more importantly, the ability to connect the dots and use knowledge to succeed today.* Build or retrofit your organization for new ways of working and collaboration by using knowledge management* Adapt to today's most popular ways to collaborate such as social networking* Overcome organization silos, knowledge hoarding and not invented here resistance* Take advantage of emerging technologies and mobile devices to build networks and share knowledge* Identify what can be learned from Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to make firms and people smarter, stronger and fasterStraightforward and easy-to-follow, this is the resource you'll turn to again and again to get-and stay-in the know. Plus, the book is filled with real-world examples - the case studies and snapshots of how best practice companies are achieving success with knowledge management.Praise for The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management is Changing the Way We Do BusinessYou may think you know knowledge management, but this is new--how knowledge initiatives can incorporate social media, mobile technologies, and learning, for example. This book integrates the new knowledge management with the best of the old, such as communities of practice and measurement. KM still matters, and this book tells you why.--Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson CollegeOver the last decade, knowledge management has emerged as a key success factor for the modern corporation, driven by tremendous advances in business analytics. This book studies the best practices in knowledge management and how leadership companies are applying them today.--Virginia M. Rometty, Senior Vice President and Group Executive Sales, Marketing and Strategy, IBMAPQC has been on the leading edge of knowledge management for almost two decades. O'Dell and Hubert have captured those best practices and created a road map to transform the way people work. Reap the benefits of their experience.--C. Jackson Grayson, Chairman and Founder, APQC and co-author of If Only We Knew What We KnowThe New Edge in Knowledge is a useful how-to manual that takes best practice sharing and organizational capability building to the next level: Web 2.0, social networking, mobility, and communities of practice. National and international examples show how companies can create strategic alignment and systematic management to transfer knowledge rapidly and effectively.--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social GoodWhat has made our KM program strong is sticking to the fundamentals-- that's exactly what this book outlines. It provides trusted advisor guidance on how any company or organization can take the concrete steps to create and implement a world class KM strategy.--Dan Ranta, Director of Knowledge Sharing, ConocoPhillipsCarla O'Dell and Cindy Hubert have written an amazingly down to earth, useful and practical book on knowledge management and its importance to modern business. Starting with the distinction between information and knowledge, they provide a viewpoint that leaves IT in the dust. Read it to prepare for tomorrow's world!--A. Gary Shilling, President, A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc.A practical business approach to knowledge management, this book covers KM's value proposition for any organization, provides proven strategies and approaches to make it work, shares how to measure KM's impact, and illustrates high level knowledge sharing with wonderful case studies. Well done!--Jane Dysart, Conference Chair, KMWorld & Partner, Dysart & Jones AssociatesThis book is a tour de force in the field of knowledge management. Read every single page and learn about best practices from the leading firms around the world. All of this and more from the company that leads the way in the field: APQC. I highly recommend it for your bookshelf.--Dr. Nick Bontis, Director, Institute for Intellectual Capital ResearchFood for thought from two of the pioneers. Carla O'Dell and Cindy Hubert have been in the trenches with many of the organizations that have succeeded in leveraging KM for business benefit. They recognized early the symbiotic relationship between knowledge flow and work flow and have guided practitioners in the quest to optimize and streamline both.-- Reid Smith, Enterprise Content Management Director, Marathon Oil CompanyCarla O'Dell and Cindy Hubert take knowledge management from vague idea to strategic enabler. In so doing, they clear up the not only the whats, but the whys and the hows. This book establishes knowledge management as an organizational discipline. The authors offer a straightforward set of execution steps, coaching readers on how to launch their own knowledge management programs in a deliberate and rigorous way.--Jill Dyche, Partner and Co-Founder, Baseline Consulting; Author of Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the TruthThe authors and APQC have put together an excellent 'how to' manual for Knowledge Management (KM) that can benefit any organization, from those experienced in KM to those just starting. The authors have taken their years of experience and excellence in this field and written a masterful introduction and design manual that incorporates industry best-practices and alerts readers to the pitfalls they are likely to encounter. This book needs to be in the hands of every KM professional and corporate senior leader.--Ralph Soule, a member of the US Navy

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(Herausg.): Organizational Knowledge in the Making: How Firms Create, Use and Institutionalize Knowledge, Oxford Univ Pr, ISBN: 0199275246
Pressestimmen\n... entails aggressively novel ideas about the relationships between leading edge technology and empowered staff and, pivotally, about how to make good use of collective learning. But most of all, Patriotta gives us new insight into how to do empirical research in a KM frame. Prometheus, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2005 Organizational Knowledge in the Making is a provocative, insightful description and analysis of the dual process of knowing and organizing... Administrative Science Quarterly Patriotta's book is of an enduring kind; it offers us some brilliant developments that really start to address the fundamental question of knowing in the dynamic of organizing... Organization Studies Organizational Knowledge in the Making is a remarkable study of organizing, remarkable in its grounding of organizational knowledge, remarkable in its steady focus on knowing amidst breakdown, and remarkable most of all in the author's accessible grasp of the complexities of process and becoming. Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Review from previous edition Review from previous edition An eloquent, timely, and scholarly study of knowing in the context of organizing. ... This is not yet another static and inert treatment of organizational knowledge where knowledge is portrayed as a simple commodity ... Rather we have here a processual treatment of knowing in its organizational context, where the core questions are about how knowledge is created, utilized, legitimated, and institutionalized Andrew Pettigrew (from Foreword) \n\nKurzbeschreibung\nKnowledge is a very seductive, but elusive concept. Following the wider debate about the emergence of the information age and the knowledge society, recent years have seen an explosion of writings about organizational knowledge from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Yet, theoretical development has not always been accompanied by sound empirical research. Methodologies for studying knowledge as an empirical phenomenon are still lagging behind. This book aims to fill the gap between theory, method, and practice by developing a phenomenological approach to the study of knowing in the context of organizing. The book contributes to the fields of strategy and organization in three ways. First it provides a critical review of the concepts, debates, and epistemological assumptions underpinning existing theories of organizational knowledge. Second, it develops a methodological framework for studying knowledge processes as an empirical phenomenon that is based on three methodological lenses: time, breakdowns, and narratives.Third, drawing on the three-lens framework, the book presents a phenomenological enquiry on knowing and organizing processes within two large car-manufacturing plants at Fiat Auto, Italy. The book highlights the need to re-think organizational knowledge from an action-based perspective and suggests a new vocabulary for understanding knowledge-oriented phenomena in organizations. The book is addressed both to scholars of strategy and organization and to reflective practitioners. Academics will be stimulated to reflect upon concepts they normally take for granted and habitually use in their research. The book is also suitable for young researchers and doctoral students whose research interests lie in the areas of knowledge and organization. The Fiat case study, on which the book is based, offers interesting insights to practitioners as far as classical themes like change, innovation, and organizational design are concerned. Contrary to mainstream knowledge management texts, however, this book does not provide any recipes about alleged best ways for managing organizational knowledge.Rather, it invites managers and practitioners to reflect about the repertoire of knowledge they possess and yet cannot , ISBN-13: 9780199275243

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Tichkiewitch, Serge/Bernard, Alain: Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management, SPRINGER, BERLIN, November 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3642097189
Knowledge Management is a vast and diverse topic that must be addressed by all modern industrial companies, from the smallest SMEs to the most complex organizations. Knowledge is a critical and strategic asset and the key to competitiveness in the modern manufacturing environment, as it facilitates capacities essential for achieving the required responsiveness, flexibility, agility and innovation. Nevertheless, knowledge itself is difficult to explicate and capture, and often can be recognized only in the improvements it brings to products, technologies and enterprise organizations.Four years ago, members of the CIRP community submitted a proposal to the 6th EU Framework Programme to establish a Network of Excellence (NoE). The European Community accepted this proposal, and thus the Virtual Research Laboratory - Knowledge Community in Production (VRL-KCiP) network was launched. The network set out to create a Knowledge Community in Production that would provide support and knowledge to EU industry. This goal was achieved thanks to (a) the ongoing cooperation and collaboration among the network partners, who represent leading universities worldwide, and (b) additional strong member partnerships with laboratories outside of Europe (Japan, Australia, South Africa, USA, and others).The main efforts of the VRL-KCiP NoE were aimed at aiding European manufacturing industry in defining and structuring its strategic knowledge in order to meet worldwide strategic challenges. These challenges, detailed below, have remained constant over the four years of the network's activities:Manufacturing must become knowledge intensive, given the demand for high-tech products (e.g. electronics, medicines).Given the relatively high labor costs in Europe compared to those in developing countries, manufacturing processes in Europe require high levels of expertise to realize required productivity.As a result of these challenges, over the past 30 years knowledge management (KM) has become a major issue in Europe, in academia as well as in industry. Indeed, firms have recognized that cultivating the knowledge resource is essential for management as well as for operations. The aim of this book is to help readers understand the complex topic of knowledge. Moreover, it underlines why knowledge is one of the most important strategic issues in achieving future manufacturing competitiveness.The book is a collection of 34 complementary contributions written by researchers from multinational locations and multidisciplinary perspectives. This book is unique in that it is based on the collective experience of these researchers and represents the status and current issues in the study and implementation of Knowledge Management today. The book describes fundamental concepts in knowledge and knowledge management and provides several case studies in the fields of design and manufacturing. In particular, the book presents several very original examples of knowledge management and knowledge sharing in the context of European manufacturing. Actual experiences and feedbacks are presented with respect to knowledge engineering approaches for design, manufacturing, and more generally for enterprise engineering. Moreover, methods and tools for knowledge integration within the extended enterprise and the value chain are described, and the role of knowledge management and documents in supporting radical innovation projects is also highlighted.The book discusses ontology, which constitutes the basis for formalizing and mapping knowledge from different points of view. Concrete examples are described and elaborated, mainly with respect to product, process and resource description and management along the lifecycle of mechanical systems. Moreover, the book outlines the knowledge management efforts within the VRL-KCiP network. These efforts include (a) realizing a common knowledge management capability in the multilingual, multinational, multidisciplinary distributed research lab, and (b) developing a knowledge map, which now forms the basis for efficient collaboration within the VRL-KCiP consortium. In addition, the benefits of developing networks of experts and shared knowledge among multi-cultural communities are highlighted. It is our hope that this book will offer you new insight into the topic of knowledge management in the European manufacturing context.

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