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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