Knowledge Organizations: What Every Manager Should Know [Hardcover]

Jay Liebowitz (Author), Thomas J. Beckman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 1998

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.

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Success in the marketplace is increasingly linked to an organization's ability to manage and leverage its intellectual capital -- the intangible and often invisible assets such as knowledge and competence of people, intellectual property, and information systems that don't show up directly on the bottom line but are at least as valuable as financial assets. Successful companies of the 21st century will be those who do the best jobs of capturing, storing, and leveraging what their employees know.
Lewis Platt, CEO, Hewlett Packard
Success in the marketplace is increasingly linked to an organization's ability to manage and leverage its intellectual capital -- the intangible and often invisible assets such as knowledge and competence of people, intellectual property, and information systems that don't show up directly on the bottom line but are at least as valuable as financial assets. Successful companies of the 21st century will be those who do the best jobs of capturing, storing, and leveraging what their employees know.
Lewis Platt, CEO, Hewlett Packard

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (April 23, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574441965
• ISBN-13: 978-1574441963
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,691,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Primer for Knowledge Executives, March 18, 2003

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This review is from: Knowledge Organizations: What Every Manager Should Know (Hardcover)

In case you didn't know it, if you run a business of any size, you are a knowledge executive. This book lays out the details of knowledge and its place in organizations. It also provides numerous case studies which give the reader a chance to see themselves in the Knowledge Economy.

Great for employees, job seekers as well as owners, Knowledge Organizations gives all readers a sense of what knowledge is, how it can be nurtured at the organizational as well as individual level, and it shows us how business will be evolving in the decades to come.