Knowledge Organizations : What Every Manager Should Know

For knowledge management to be successful, the corporate culture needs to be adapted to encourage the creation, sharing, and distribution of knowledge within the organization. Knowledge Organizations: What Every Manager Should Know provides insight into how organizations can best accomplish this goal. Liebowitz and Beckman provide the information companies need for evaluating and planning the steps and processes that will transform their existing organization infrastructure into a "knowledge-based" organization. This easy-to-read guide includes many vignettes, examples, and short cases of organizations involved in knowledge management.;The Knowledge Industry, Knowledge Organizations, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Assets, Knowledge as a Commodity, Knowledge Management, Collecting and Selecting Knowledge , Organizing and Storing Knowledge, Creating Knowledge: Learning, Experimentation, Discovery, and Innovation., Applying Innovative Information Technology, Implementing the Knowledge Organization, Future Knowledge Organizations. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 2 Copyright Page......Page 3 The Authors......Page 4 Dedications......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Table of Contents......Page 10 1 The Knowledge Industry......Page 12 2 Knowledge Organizations......Page 24 3 Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Assets......Page 36 4 Knowledge as a Commodity......Page 48 5 Knowledge Management......Page 58 6 Collecting and Selecting Knowledge......Page 78 7 Organizing and Storing Knowledge......Page 92 8 Sharing and Applying Knowledge......Page 110 9 Creating Knowledge: Learning, Experimentation, Discovery and Innovation......Page 122 10 Applying Innovative Information Technology......Page 144 11 Implementing the Knowledge Organization......Page 170 12 Future Knowledge Organizations......Page 192 Index......Page 200