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Collective knowledge : intranets, productivity, and the promise of the knowledge workplace

Title
Collective knowledge : intranets, productivity, and the promise of the knowledge workplace / Robert Marcus, Beverley Watters.
Author
Marcus, Robert, 1962-
Publication
Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors
Watters, Beverley.
Description
ix, 228 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Publisher description.
Subject
  • Intranets (Computer networks)
  • Industrial productivity
  • Performance technology
  • Labor productivity
  • intranets
  • Performance technology
  • Labor productivity
  • Industrial productivity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.
Contents
From Cuneiform to Intranets: Getting Here from There -- Information and Knowledge in an Historical Perspective -- Humans See Value in Consciously Collecting, Sharing, and Using Information -- Writing Systems Were Designed to Augment Memory Systems -- Humankind Has Invented Physical Objects for Storing and Manipulating Information -- Humankind Perceives Value in Collections of Knowledge -- Every Major Institution in Society Has Collected, Preserved, and Exploited Information -- Humankind Needs to Organize Knowledge to Assure Access -- Intranets 101 -- Nuts, Bolts, Bits, and Bytes -- Evolving Intranets -- Next Generation Intranets -- The Demand for Intranets -- The Portal: Gateway to a World of Knowledge -- Portal Features and Functionality -- Why Portals? Why Now? -- Portals in the News -- Business and Technological Drivers -- The PC Revolution -- The Search for a New Management Paradigm -- The Desktop Publishing Revolution -- The Revolution in Networking -- The Internet Revolution -- The Microsoft Solution for Intranets -- The Problem -- The Solution -- The Culture of Knowledge -- The Knowledge Worker -- What Are Knowledge Workers and What Can They Do? -- Where Did Knowledge Workers Come From? -- Today's Knowledge Workers -- Core Competencies of Today's Knowledge Workers -- The Knowledge Workplace -- From the Industrial Revolution to the Information Age -- The Changing Nature of Work -- Transformation of the Workplace -- Knowledge Management -- Putting Knowledge to Work -- How Intranets Add Value.
ISBN
  • 0735614997
  • 9780735614994
LCCN
2001057769
OCLC
  • ocm48620193
  • 48620193
  • SCSB-1562366
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library