The Knowledge Engine: How to Create Fast Cycles of Knowledge to Performance and Performance to Knowledge: How to Create Fast Cycles of ... PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Hardcover

Lloyd Baird; John C Henderson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157675104X ISBN 13: 9781576751046

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

-- Presents new strategies for integrating learning and knowledge into performance and making these skills part of all employees' jobsIn an increasingly competitive business environment, knowledge management is crucial. Old paradigms have started to fail. This book offers a new model, urging business leaders to build a ""knowledge engine"" that drives learning from experience back into performance. The book explains the principle of creating and leveraging knowledge assets and gives concrete examples of how to do it. Drawing on five years of research and application in leading corporations, the authors lay out several guiding principles: focus learning and knowledge generation on building core capabilities that provide a competitive advantage; produce value and build capability at the local level; go for ground truth; embed learning into the performance process; build just-in-time knowledge engines; and look for leverage opportunities.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

About the Author:

Dr. Baird is Professor of Management at Boston University and Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, which he helped found. He is currently a principal at the Systems Research Center and Research Director of the Executive Development Roundtable focusing on the role of top executives and executive development. Each of these Institutes and Roundtables brings together leading organizations to work common issues and problems. Together they represent over 100 corporations devoted to staying on the cutting edge of practice. They fund research and joint projects to test out new theories and applications. They provide the guidance, on site coordination and validate the findings by quickly testing them in real world situations. We provide the research capability and an objective outsider role testing their assumptions and suggesting solutions.

John C. Henderson, is Chair of the Management Information Systems Department, Director of the Systems Research Center and is the Richard G. Shipley Endowed Chair at Boston University s School of Management. As Director of the Systems Research Center he is involved globally with top corporations developing and implementing corporate information technology strategy. Most recently he is working with them developing strategies and applications which fit a faster moving, dynamic economy. He received he Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a noted researcher, consultant and executive educator with published papers appearing in journals such as Management Science, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IBM Systems Journal, European Management Journal, and many others. He is often sought out for editorial comment in academic and applied journals and is popular with journalists as one who understands both the worlds of theory and application.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 157675104X
• ISBN 13: 9781576751046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146