Knowledge management Books

Today's organizational leaders contend with a considerable array of potentially profound disruptive forces.

Covering the latest thinking in IT service management, this new edition provides a comprehensive introduction for those preparing for their ITSM foundation exam.

Drawing on over two decades of experience creating continuity plans and using them in actual recoveries, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Kelley Okolita goes beyond theory to provide planners with the tools to build a continuity program in any...

Working with Conservation Data provides a practical, step-by-step guide that describes how to approach the issue of documentation in a professional conservation environment.

Engaging in ongoing, continuing professional development (CPD) is a strategic imperative for the health informatics professional. In our global economy, healthcare is fast-paced, dynamic, and ever-changing. While this rapid change is both exciting and...

This book examines the notion and understanding of innovation and knowledge societies as they particularly apply to the Gulf states and their broad range of communities. Key to this examination will be the role that intellectual property - its promotion...

This book is a collection of key principles that should be used to "deliver" difficult and unrealistic projects. These principles are independent of the chosen project management methodology - they remain complementary to them and help to successfully...

In an era where talent drives organizational success, effectively managing the workforce has become increasingly complex and vital. The shift toward data-driven strategies empowers business to better understand employee needs, predict workforce trends,...

Unlock the potential of cross-cultural collaboration with this essential book! It presents innovative strategies for achieving cross-cultural complementarity, highlighting the role of metacognitive cultural intelligence in enhancing knowledge sharing...

This edited book aims to bring together the latest research in the field of human psychology, emotional intelligence, and technology. The book is a platform for experts to share their knowledge on how virtual technology and techniques can be used to...

The authors contend that current knowledge management efforts in organizations need to be re-focused so that they can be better poised for success. Topics discussed include: missing capabilities of knowledge management, knowledge management in strategic...

Profiling Smart Development: A thorough comparative empirical review of real and best e-Development policies and practices towards the Knowledge Economy. Based on the analysis of policies, practices and empirical development case studies, this book...

The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge explores the construct of information and information culture and its relationship to the prevailing culture. The author provides an analysis of the relationship of media to the core constructs in the...

Improving service and profits should be the constant aim of the operation side of any company. Beatriz Muñoz-Seca and Josep Riverola uncover the role of knowledge and problem solving as the cornerstones of the improvement process. They present the logic...

The organization, processing and representation of knowledge becomes increasingly important in all scientific and business contexts. This book focuses on qualitative methods for knowledge organization and their contributions to knowledge-based issues of...

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since...

This unique comprehensive collection presents the latest multi-disciplinary research in strategic digital outsourcing and digital business strategy, providing a management decision-making framework for successful long-term relationships and collaboration...

 Who are you? Why are you, you? Do you like being you? Are you satisfied with who you are? Do you want your mojo back? What if you could design and become the best version of yourself? Would you be willing to walk that journey? What if you could...

Belonging to the realm of intelligent technologies, it is increasingly accepted that artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from being merely a development standpoint in computer science. Indeed, recent reports and academic publications show that we...

The author developed Lightweight Enterprise Architecture (LEA) to enable a quick alignment of technology to business strategy. LEA's simple and effective framework makes it useful to a wide audience of users throughout an enterprise, coordinating...

There are some types of complex systems that are built like clockwork, with well-defined parts that interact in well-defined ways, so that the action of the whole can be precisely analyzed and anticipated with accuracy and...

This volume, the eighth of a continuing series on information systems science, presents five timely topics which are of current interest in this growing field. In each chapter, an attempt is made to familiarize the reader with...

The five approaches outlined in this book offers the systems thinking practitioner a range of interchangeable tools for pro-actively making systemic improvements amidst complex situations of change and uncertainty.  Practitioners from all...

This book presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the...

This book presents a guide to navigating the complicated issues of quality and process improvement in enterprise software implementation, and the effect these have on the software development life cycle (SDLC). Offering an integrated approach that...

This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action). It will be welcomed by those managing or governing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and...

This guide demonstrates how virtual build and test can be supported by the Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) simulation modeling formalism, and the System Entity Structure (SES) simulation model ontology. The book examines a wide variety of...

The objective of APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management is to establish reliable application performance management (APM) practices-to demonstrate value, to do it quickly, and to adapt to the client circumstances. It's important...

This book is about using information in small businesses to compete; it is about strategy and information systems. It examines problems that these businesses face and suggests some solutions. It looks at how strategie planning...

Helene Bestougeff, Universite de Marne Ia Vallee, France Jacques-Emile Dubois, Universite Paris VII-Denis Diderot, France Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation, USA The last fifty years promoted the conceptual trio:...

""The Financial Policy of Corporations V5: Failure and Reorganization"" is a book written by Arthur Stone Dewing and published in 1920. The book is a detailed analysis of the financial policies of corporations and their impact on the success or failure...

""Five Years On The Erie Canal"" is a book written by M. Eaton in 1845. It is an account of the author's experiences during his five years of labor on the Erie Canal. The book provides a detailed description of some of the most striking scenes and...

This book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the...

This book proposes a new model explaining the factors influencing the efficiency of adaptable IT support in contemporary organizations, including those operating normally and during crises.

Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives...

Crowdsourcing in Management Research explores the evolving landscape of academic research in the context of contemporary legal, social, cultural, and technological shifts.

The book discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with building trust in AI systems and highlights the importance of transparency, accountability, and ethics in creating trustworthy AI.

The book reviews the development process of blockchain algorithms and examples of their applications in different sectors. The opportunities and challenges of blockchain implementations that arise in making technological innovations usable in corporate...

IT is one of the business world's strongest pillars and achievements. This book educates the reader on the business-related facts and impacts of IT; its daily application and how the near future will possibly change again beyond all recognition how we...

The second edition of this groundbreaking book explains why becoming a Humachine enterprise is the only way forward for a company to maintain a competitive advantage in the age of artificial intelligence.

Most organisations face data quality problems, a legacy of many years of poor information management. With increasing regulation and increasing competition it is no longer an option to simply ignore these problems. With the cost of poor data quality...

With a focus on strategy and implementation, James Chang discusses business management practices and the technology that enables them. He analyzes the history of process management practices and demonstrates that BPM practices are a synthesis of radical...

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic...