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Knowledge management [electronic resource] : the death of wisdom : why our companies have lost it, and how they can get it back / Arnold Kransdorff.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 2012 digital library | Strategic management collectionPublication details: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2012.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 electronic text (xvii, 137 p.) : digital fileISBN:
  • 9781606495438 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 658.4038 23
LOC classification:
  • HD30.2 .K725 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print.
Contents:
Author's credentials -- Preface -- 1. The race where every sprinter drops the baton -- 2. Getting from A to B without going via Z -- 3. Here today, gone tomorrow -- 4. Opportunity knocks for business education -- 5. "I forgot to remember!" -- 6. The smart march to wisdom -- 7. How the baton was passed -- 8. Way to go -- Appendix. Checkbooks and boxing gloves: origins of the author's interest -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract: Conceived less than 20 years ago, Knowledge Management (KM) is the business discipline about which managers perhaps know the least. Having spent pots of money investing in it, the benefits are still marginal. This is because practitioners are still feeling their way. Now that the boom days are temporarily over, it is timely that KM can be more fully exploited, for it conceals an application that is indispensable for the foreseeable struggle ahead--and after, including an overlooked way out of the credit crash dilemma facing those dogmatic decision makers juggling the option between austerity and growth. It's not rocket science. It's a way of doing both, in this case by refocusing on the old-fashioned notion of productivity implied by this book's Chapter 2 heading: Getting from A to B without going via Z. Not the productivity that comes from cutbacks and austerity but the type that frontruns improved competitiveness, sales, and growth.
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This book is about an unintended--and unnoticed--consequence that is needlessly costing commerce and industry an unimaginable amount of money. It was in the early 1980s that someone smart thought that the flexible labor market would allow employers to quickly adapt their workforce to the new industrial technology-led revolution. It did, but the trouble is that nobody thought of the downside consequences-- short jobs tenure and the continual loss of the organizations' unique, hard-won and expensively acquired knowledge and experience. Inside, you'll learn how employers can continue to take advantage of the flexible labor market while holding on to their special knowledge and experience. It's a way of recovering lost continuity, allowing rolling generations of employees to learn more effectively from tried-and-tested experience and thus improve their decision making. Called experiential learning that has been adapted to the modern workplace, it's a way of helping to banish all those repeated mistakes, re-invented wheels and other unlearned lessons that litter modern industry and commerce.

Part of: 2012 digital library.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-134) and index.

Author's credentials -- Preface -- 1. The race where every sprinter drops the baton -- 2. Getting from A to B without going via Z -- 3. Here today, gone tomorrow -- 4. Opportunity knocks for business education -- 5. "I forgot to remember!" -- 6. The smart march to wisdom -- 7. How the baton was passed -- 8. Way to go -- Appendix. Checkbooks and boxing gloves: origins of the author's interest -- Notes -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Conceived less than 20 years ago, Knowledge Management (KM) is the business discipline about which managers perhaps know the least. Having spent pots of money investing in it, the benefits are still marginal. This is because practitioners are still feeling their way. Now that the boom days are temporarily over, it is timely that KM can be more fully exploited, for it conceals an application that is indispensable for the foreseeable struggle ahead--and after, including an overlooked way out of the credit crash dilemma facing those dogmatic decision makers juggling the option between austerity and growth. It's not rocket science. It's a way of doing both, in this case by refocusing on the old-fashioned notion of productivity implied by this book's Chapter 2 heading: Getting from A to B without going via Z. Not the productivity that comes from cutbacks and austerity but the type that frontruns improved competitiveness, sales, and growth.

Also available in print.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.

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