Knowledge Networking: Creating the Collaborative Enterprise

Audience: Mid-senior managers; Team leaders; Strategic planners; CEOs; IT directors; MBA students.

Knowledge Networking explains the strategic, organizational and human impact of technologies that support knowledge: the internet, groupware, collaborative technologies. It shows how they can transform organizational practices and help to improve both individual and team performances.

Based on proven experience and includes customised toolkits, cases and action plans. From pooling expertise on a sales bid via computer referencing, to improving customer service using the flexible office, the author demonstrates how potential can become practice.

Knowledge management is the big management idea currently influencing organizations, and Knowledge Networking explores the global impact of sharing knowledge and expertise. It is a highly practical text which includes customised toolkits, cases and action plans to enable individuals and teams to improve their performance.

Shows how collaboration and teamworking can be enhanced through knowledge networking Concerned with people, processes and practicalities not theory and technology Includes access to the author's internet newsletter on knowledge management

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Skyrme, a knowledge manager, explains how managers can leverage the knowledge dispersed and fragmented throughout their company to deliver organizational benefits and create new opportunities. He provides toolkits and checklists for individual, team, organizational, and collaborative enterprises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)