The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management: A Strategic Plan to Leverage Your Company's Intellectual Capital - Tapa dura

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A straightforward guide to leveraging your company's intellectual capital by creating a knowledge management culture The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management offers managers the tools they need to create an organizational culture that improves knowledge sharing, reuse, learning, collaboration, and innovation to ensure mesurable growth. Written by internationally recognized knowledge management pioneers, it addresses all those topics in knowledge management that a manager needs to ensure organizational success. * Provides plenty of real-life examples and case studies * Includes interviews with prominent managers who have successfully implemented knowledge management structures within their organizations * Offers chapters composed of short theoretical explanations and practical methods that you can utilize, based primarily on hands-on author experience Taking an intellectual journey into knowledge management, beginning with an understanding of the concept of intellectual capital and how to establish an appropriate culture, this book looks at the human aspects of managing knowledge workers, promoting interactions for knowledge creation and sharing.

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Praise for THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

"Managers, in all hierarchical levels, will find this book a very practical guide of knowledge management (KM). It is based on lessons learned from many organizations worldwide, including the unique experience of our knowledge culture in Rafael. This culture, which had been developing over decades (even when the term had not yet been invented), is a major part of the hidden secrets behind the success of our business."

? Vice Admiral (Ret.) Yedidia Yaari, CEO and President, Rafael (formerly CIC of Navy, IDF)

"Finally, a comprehensive, innovative, and very practical knowledge management book. It is the first to integrate knowledge management with culture and human relations."

? Baruch Lev, Director, Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research; Philip Bardes, Professor of Accounting and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business

"This book is a must-read for all who manage in today's competitive global environment. The book is written by a manager and management consultant who are able to present the topic from two different points of view. The authors have done a great job in combining theory and reality and offer a large number of examples."

? Prof. Israel (Izzy) Borovich, former Chairman of the Board, El Al Israel Airlines Ltd; Professor Emeritus of Computers and Information Systems, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University

"Pasher and Ronen are true pioneers in knowledge management and intellectual capital. They share their wealth of experience with a rich array of examples and conversations with people who have lived the challenges. What sets their work apart is their deep grounding in the true sources of wealth creation?the people, relationships, and ways of working that achieve success."

? Verna Allee, CEO, ValueNetworks.com; author, The Knowledge Evolution and The Future of Knowledge

"The authors manage to offer a highly practical guide with plenty of wisdom embedded in the down-to-earth processes, methods, examples and tools included in each chapter. Distilling the expertise they have acquired as pioneers in the field, they help managers design and implement a thorough knowledge management and intellectual capital strategy while comprehending the value of what they are doing. This makes this book a unique achievement and a most appealing bargain."

?Francisco Javier Carrillo, President of The World Capital Institute