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Smart business : how knowledge communities can revolutionize your company

Title
Smart business : how knowledge communities can revolutionize your company / Jim Botkin.
Author
Botkin, James W.
Publication
New York : Free Press, ©1999.

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Description
291 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"The first knowledge-age book to give practical advice on how to organize and make use of knowledge--how to turn knowledge into wisdom."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Knowledge management
  • Information technology
  • Strategic planning
  • Organization
  • Electronic data processing
  • information technology
  • Electronic data processing
  • Organization
  • Information technology
  • Knowledge management
  • Strategic planning
  • Kennismanagement
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289).
Contents
Foreword: An Economy of Ideas / Alan Webber -- Introduction: The Wisdom of Nature -- 1. Why Knowledge Shared Is Power -- 2. Knowledge Age -- Opportunity for a New Enlightenment? -- 3. What's the Knowledge Business in Your Business? -- 4. Knowledge Communities as Entrepreneurial Ventures -- 5. Manage Knowledge so Your Chief Knowledge Officer Doesn't Have to Do It for You -- 6. Learning to Lead the Knowledge Revolution -- 7. Cultures That Question Are Cultures That Trust -- 8. Leadership Is Building Your Community's Future -- 9. "Not-For-Tangible-Business-Purposes" and Other Pitfalls -- 100. Smart Business Engages the Knowledge Revolution and Grows from It -- Afterword: The Economics of Knowledge / Eric Vogt -- App. Company Contributions -- How Legacy Companies Practice Smart Business -- 1. Xerox: Documents Convey Knowledge / Priscilla H. Douglas -- 2. Marriott: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things / Helena Light Hadley -- 3. Satum: People, Systems, Training and Development / Gary High -- 4. IRL: The Manager's Core Work in the New Economy / Peter Henschel -- 5. Sweden Post: From Monopoly to Modernity / Gosta Hagglund -- 6. Creative Intellectual Capital in the Mindfacturing Era / Rene Villarreal -- 7. SMG: To Be a Business Innovator / Berth Jonsson -- 8. Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Rebecca Phillips, Motorola University: Understanding Scientific Knowledge Communities / Heidi Hahn.
ISBN
  • 0684850249
  • 9780684850245
LCCN
99017727
OCLC
  • ocm40754631
  • 40754631
  • SCSB-1506337
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library