The Knowledge Dividend: Creating high-performance companies through value-based knowledge management - Softcover

Tissen, Rene; Andriessen, Daniel; Lekanne Deprez, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273645102 ISBN 13: 9780273645108

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

How can companies prepare themselves for greater success in the knowledge economy?

As the world evolves into a virtual market space, new rules for business success are imminent. Companies who gain the edge will have one notable characteristic. They use their entire knowledge base to continuously add more value to their customers and employees, and therefore, to their company as a whole.

The Knowledge Dividend shows you how to initiate and leverage knowledge in accordance with your company strategy. It illustrates how to create organizations that are entirely process, team and community based, and ICT enabled. It explains, by example, how to shape the knowledge attitude and key competencies of knowledge professionals so that they are committed to the future - the company's and their own.

Don't dig deeper for more knowledge, capture only meaningful knowledge and build on the value it has

The Knowledge Dividend shows how to turn intangible knowledge into tangible business value by creating an organization that is process, team and community based, and properly ICT enabled. It looks at knowledge management from a non-technical, integrated approach called Value-Based Knowledge Management. It shows how to build meaningful knowledge from the ideas and innovations that reside in company professionals, teams and communities. This book answers the question, "What value can be created for a company with knowledge?" It helps to design an organization that is founded on a structure that derives value from knowledge.

This book does not focus on ways to gather and manage the ever-growing stream of information flooding businesses today. The Knowledge Dividend helps create organizations that inspire knowledge professionals to adopt a higher level of performance, one based on creativity and intuition, flexibility and speed.

As well as including a teaser CD-ROM, the book is packed with many time-saving tools. It introduces over 200 innovative practices and case studies of renowned international companies that are meeting the challenges of the knowledge economy.

Learn how to locate and build knowledge that adds value to your business, and how to use value-based knowledge to maximize the growth and wealth of the organization

 

 

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About the Author

René Tissen is managing director of KPMG Knowledge Management, The Netherlands and co-chairman of the KPMG Knowledge Management and Consulting Services group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is also Professor of Business Management at Nyenrode University, The Netherlands School of Business. As an international consultant and researcher, he specializes in advising companies on boardroom-level matters in Knowledge Management, Organization and Human Resources Management.  Before joining KPMG, Dr. Tissen held a number of scientific, executive and senior management positions in The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and China.  As a senior manager of KPMG Knowledge Management, Daniel Andriessen advises management of international companies in the area of Knowledge Management, Knowledge Organizations and Knowledge Systems. In addition, he is known as an expert in the valuation of intangible assets, strategy development, as well as the implementation of policy simulations and management games.  Mr. Andriessen has worked as a business consultant since 1990 and received his degree in Administrative Science and Social Scientific Research from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.  Frank Lekanne Deprez is a manager with KPMG Knowledge Management, where he specializes in advising international companies in the areas of operational and strategic knowledge management, as well as creating knowledge communities worldwide and applying the principles of virtual organization in practice.  Before joining KPMG, he was a research associate at Tilburg University. Since 1988, he has held several management and functional positions at Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). From 1995 to 1997, he was Manager of Market & Product Development at Galileo Nederland, Ltd.  Mr. Lekanne Deprez received his degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273645102
• ISBN 13: 9780273645108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288