Knowledge Management Handbook

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Jay Liebowitz
CRC Press, Feb 25, 1999 - Technology & Engineering - 328 pages
Many organizations are now realizing that their competitive edge lies mostly in the brainpower-the intellectual capital-of their employees and management. To stay ahead of the pack, companies must leverage their knowledge, internally and externally. But it is not enough to develop lessons-learned databases. Experts now believe the current savior of organizations is knowledge management-the conceptualization, review, consolidation, and action phases of creating, securing, combining, coordinating, and retrieving knowledge-in short, the process of creating value from an organization's intangible assets.
Jay Liebowitz, one of the leading knowledge management and expert systems authorities in the world, brings together over thirty articles contributed by the top researchers and practitioners to produce what seems destined to become the key reference for this emerging field. With it you will find:
  • How to create a knowledge-sharing environment
  • How senior executives can show tangible benefits using methods that value the intellectual capital-especially the "human capital" within the organization
  • How knowledge management is not the same as information management
  • How senior management commitment and involvement are essential to the success of a knowledge management system
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    Contents

    Introducing Knowledge Management into the Enterprise
    3-3
    CKO CKT or KT?
    4-5
    A Look Toward Valuating Human Capital
    5-5
    Performance Measures for Knowledge Management
    6-3
    Concepts Issues and Technologies
    7-7
    Towards an Alternative
    8-3
    MetaKnowledge and MetaKnowledgebases
    8-21
    Intelligent Agents for Knowledge Management Toward Intelligent
    11-1
    Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing 121
    12-5
    Knowledge Discovery 131
    13-13
    A Look at RuleBased Systems 141
    14-5
    Knowledge Management in Industry 151
    15-3
    Knowledge Management in Government 161
    16-3
    Index IN1
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