| Description |
xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Knowledge Era -- 2. Knowledge Competencies for Adaptive Enterprises -- 3. The Knowledge Navigators -- 4. Seeing Patterns of Knowledge, Learning, and Performance -- 5. Knowledge Archetypes in Action -- 6. Knowledge, Learning, and Organizations -- 7. Doing the Data Two-Step -- 8. Gigamonsters and Other Dragons: Procedural Knowledge -- 9. Building Functional Knowledge -- 10. The Making of Meaning -- 11. Integrating: The Quest for Elegant Solutions -- 12. Renewing: Reconnecting with Purpose -- 13. Expanded Vision for Union Performance -- 14. Strategies: Creating Practice Fields for Knowledge -- 15. Culture, Mapping, Technology, and Measures -- 16. The Seeds of Knowledge -- App. 1. The Knowledge Archetype in Theoretical Constructs -- App. 2. Sample Question Set for Knowledge Building in Information Management |
| Summary |
The Knowledge Evolution offers a unique and powerful road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday work. This book reframes current thinking by delving into the hidden world of knowledge supporting both individual and organizational performance, laying the foundation for the emerging art of knowledge management. Packed with best practices from leading edge companies, essential guidelines, design principles, analogies, and conceptual frameworks, it serves as a practical guidebook for mastering the Knowledge Era. It will help managers make more intelligent decisions about knowledge creation, reduce wasteful technology investments and lead to new ease and confidence in applying knowledge and learning principles for themselves and for their organizations |
| Analysis |
Organizational learning |
| Notes |
Contents: 1. Introduction: The Knowledge Era -- 2. Knowledge Competencies for Adaptive Enterprises -- 3. The Knowledge Navigators -- 4. Seeing Patterns of Knowledge, Learning, and Performance -- 5. Knowledge Archetypes in Action -- 6. Knowledge, Learning, and Organizations -- 7. Doing the Data Two-Step -- 8. Gigamonsters and Other Dragons: Procedural Knowledge -- 9. Building Functional Knowledge -- 10. The Making of Meaning -- 11. Integrating: The Quest for Elegant Solutions -- 12. Renewing: Reconnecting wi |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index |
| Subject |
Organizational learning.
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| Author |
Allee, Verna, 1949-
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| LC no. |
96048561 |
| ISBN |
075069842X (paperback) |
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