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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline , is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that... (more)

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger

“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Understanding the amazing force that links some of today's most successful companies If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common... (more)

Working Knowledge

by Thomas H. Davenport

The definitive overview of knowledge management, now available in paperback This influential book establishes the enduring vocabulary and concepts in the burgeoning field of knowledge management. It serves as the hands-on resource of choice for companies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable source of competitive advantage going forward. Drawing from their work with more than 30 knowledge-rich... (more)

Wikipatterns

by Stewart Mader

This book provides practical, proven advice for encouraging adoption of your wiki project and growing it into a useful collaboration tool or vibrant online community Gives wiki users a toolbox of thriving wiki patterns, which enable newcomers to avoid making common mistakes or fumbling around for the solutions to the same problems as their predecessors Explains the major stages of wiki adoption and... (more)

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. The eight articles in Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management... (more)

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling

by Stephen Denning

Take a satirical scamper through organizational life in the midst of changing times, brought to you by master storyteller and former World Bank executive Steve Denning. With wisdom and a healthy dose of wit, Denning introduces a cast of furry characters who together learn the fine art of change through storytelling in their quest to overcome obstacles, generate enthusiasm and teamwork, share knowledge, and... (more)

The Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown

All New Preface by the Authors For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything-from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul... (more)

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice

by Carla S. O'Dell

While companies search the world over to benchmark best practices, vast treasure troves of knowledge and know-how remain hidden right under their noses: in the minds of their own employees, in the often unique structure of their operations, and in the written history of their organizations. Now, acclaimed productivity and quality experts Carla O'Dell and Jack Grayson explain for the first time how applying the... (more)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold

Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, wireless-paging, and Internet-access devices-that will allow us to connect with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge... (more)

The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture,... (more)

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

by Christina Wodtke

All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago's tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But... (more)

Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management

The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management is the most comprehensive source of coverage related to the past, present, and emerging directions of knowledge management. Edited by the well-respected knowledge management researcher, Professor David Schwartz of Bar Ilan University (Israel), the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management provides a broad basis for understanding the issues, technologies, theories, applications,... (more)

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work

by Don Cohen

Knowledge has always resided in organizations-but it wasn't until the Information Age put a premium on ideas that intellectual capital was recognized as a critical resource. Now, forces like technology, globalization, and the rise of free agency and virtual workplaces are bringing another form of "hidden" capital to the forefront. In Good Company is the first book to examine the role that social capital -a... (more)

Knowledge Management Case Book: Siemens Best Practises

Knowledge Management Case Book: Siemens Best Practises

by Thomas H. Davenport

This book provides a perspective on knowledge management at Siemens - an internationally recognised benchmark - by presenting the reader with the best of the corporation's practical applications and experiences. Tom Davenport and Gilbert Probst bring together instructive case studies from different areas that reflect the rich insights gained from years of experience in practising knowledge management. Most of... (more)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

by Melissie Clemmons Rumizen

Guidance on how to share information among peers to helps companies achieve greater success. Explains the latest management buzzwords, offers advice on keeping open communication with customers and co-workers, and maintaining a knowledge management program with the future in mind. Softcover.

Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer

Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer

by Gretta Rusanow

Outlining key components of successful legal knowledge management, this book includes suggestions to help law firms manage their most important asset-the staff's collective knowledge. Included are strategies specifically designed for law firms to identify, capture, disseminate, and use the knowledge that differentiates them in the marketplace in order to manage their current business and future growth more... (more)

We Are Smarter Than Me

How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business

by Barry Libert

Many leading-edge books are now stating that emerging social networks are rewriting and impacting the rules of business. Now you can discover exactly how to use social networking in your business to drive better decision-making and greater profitability. We Are Snarter Than Me is a collaboration of Wharton, MIT and thousands of business innovators, worldwide. Drawing on their collective "in the trenches"... (more)

Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know

Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know

by Nancy M. Dixon

Breakthrough Research on Knowledge Transfer Reveals Five Proven Methods for Making Knowledge Sharing a Reality-Which are Right for Your Company? While external knowledge-about customers, about competitors-is critical, it rarely provides a competitive edge for companies because such information is equally available to everyone. But internal "know-how" that is unique to a specific company-how to introduce a new... (more)

Collective Knowledge

by Robert Marcus

In the Information Age, individuals work in concert with technology to streamline and enhance the capture and flow of an organization's knowledge, and deliver it to individuals and teams engaged in accomplishing specific tasks. COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE describes the Knowledge Workplace, where intellectual capital is a managed asset and employee productivity is enabled by Web-based services. This book provides... (more)

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Tags: knowledge management

by Peter M. Senge

by David Weinberger

by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

by Thomas H. Davenport

by Stewart Mader

by Stephen Denning

by John Seely Brown

by Carla S. O'Dell

by Howard Rheingold

by James Surowiecki

by Christina Wodtke

by Don Cohen

by Thomas H. Davenport

by Melissie Clemmons Rumizen

by Gretta Rusanow

How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business

by Barry Libert

by Nancy M. Dixon

by Robert Marcus