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Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers
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Thomas H Davenport
Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and importance, that's a mistake that could cost ...
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The Race Between Education and Technology
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Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F Katz
This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America ...
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The Genius Machine: The 11 Steps That Turn Raw Ideas Into Brilliance
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Gerald Sindell
"The Genius Machine" presents a complete step-by-step system for developing an idea, thinking through an issue, or creating a revolutionary innovation. Intellectual property consultant Gerald Sindell works with authors and companies to help them figure out their core identities and develop their most valuable ideas. His eleven-step process has ...
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The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-First Century Organization
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Thomas A Stewart
The author who made companies rethink their definitions of assets, and who raised managers's awareness of the value of knowledge workers in his book INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, asks fundamental questions about companies while he proposes real strategies for managing knowledge assets.
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Innovation and Incentives
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Suzanne Scotchmer
Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. "Innovation and Incentives" provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to legal and economics ...
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Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
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G G Chowdhury
Accepting that information professionals need to learn both traditional and computerized information retrieval techniques, this book aims to provide students with a comprehensive view of information retrieval. It covers: classification, cataloguing, subject indexing, abstracting and vocabulary control; CD-ROM and online information retrieval, ...
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Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital
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John W Boudreau, Peter M Ramstad
Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact. "Beyond HR" shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and ...
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The Economics of Knowledge
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Dominique Foray
The economics of knowledge is a rapidly emerging subdiscipline of economics that has never before been given the comprehensive and cohesive treatment found in this book. Dominique Foray analyses the deep conceptual and structural transformation of our economic activities that has led to a gradual shift to knowledge-intensive activities. This ...
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Making Sense of Intellectual Capital: Designing a Method for the Valuation of Intangibles
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Daniel Andriessen
Peter Drucker has introduced us all to the knowledge era, where knowledge is the primary resource and intangibles (intellectual capital resources and assets) are now largely recognized as the most important sources of organizations' competitive advantage. With the recognition of the importance of Intangibles comes the problem of how to properly ...
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The Knowledge-Creating Company
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Ikujiro Nonaka
The authors contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative--and not merely masters of imitation as some think--and because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Illustrations.
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Knowledge Capitalism: Business, Work, and Learning in the New Economy
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Alan Burton-Jones
Knowledge Capitalism probes the surface of contemporary economic and social change, revealing how the shift to a knowledge-based economy is redefining firms, empowering individuals, and reshaping the links between learning and work. Using economic, management and knowledge-based theories, supported by empirical data and illustrations from leading ...
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The Wisdom Network: An 8-Step Process for Identifying, Sharing, and Leveraging Individual Expertise
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Steve Benton, Melissa Giovagnoli
Most companies don't make the best use of their wisest people: the ones who always seem to know how to get things done, solve the problems that stump everybody else, and anticipate emerging opportunities with amazing speed. "The Wisdom Network" is an eye-opening book that introduces readers to an eight-step process for discovering and realizing ...
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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, Kes 2005, Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part I
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Rajiv Khosla
The four volume set "LNAI 3681", "LNAI 3682", "LNAI 3683", and "LNAI 3684" constitute the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2005, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2005. The 716 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from ...
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Managing Intellectual Capital: Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions
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David J Teece
There is a strong awareness that the new economy has arrived, and that firms and management need to focus on a plethora of new issues at present only dimly perceived. The astute management of technology can advance not only the fortunes of the innovators, but also of society at large. In this book David Teece considers how firms can exploit ...
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The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets
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Karl Erik Sveiby
This study shows how some of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies are discovering that potentially limitless revenues can flow from their firm's intangible assets - the ability of employees, customers, and even suppliers to create new concepts, models, products and services.
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Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best and Brightest
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David Heenan
For centuries, the United States has been a magnet for human capital - ambitious, talented immigrants came to make their fortunes and stayed to pump wealth into the U.S. economy. Today America relies more than ever on immigrant brainpower: over half the PhDs working here are foreign born, as are nearly half the physicists, computer scientists, and ...
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Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
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Brian Kahin (Editor), Dominique Foray (Editor)
International experts discuss the generation and management of knowledge in the face of an explosion of data, a revolution in information technology, and the increasingly blurred distinction between private and public knowledge. The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and ...
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Technology Paradise Lost: Why Companies Must Spend Less to Get More from Information Technology
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Erik Keller
Debunking many of today's myths about the future prospects and growth of information technology, this book uses a variety of well-accepted economic, technological, and market data to come to the contrary conclusion that IT is poised to shrink and not grow. Discussed is how this conclusion does not imply that companies will slow their use of ...
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Knowledge Mapping and Management
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Don White (Editor)
The fundamental managerial challenges in the 21st century centres on how organizations create, share and exploit knowledge. Only managers and consultants with a deep understanding of knowledge management issues will be able to address the challenges and problems inherent in developing an understanding of knowledge management and mapping in the ...
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Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race
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Michael J English, William H Baker, Jr.
Lessons from the world's most profitable businesses show you how to turn knowledge assets and investments into a critical competitive advantage. Effective knowledge transfer creates firms with a rich supply of intellectual capital that innovates quickly and converts knowledge into value and profit. "Winning The Knowledge Transfer Race" examines ...
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Value-Driven Intellectual Capital: How to Convert Intangible Corporate Assets Into Market Value
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Patrick H Sullivan
How do firms like Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, Dow Chemical, IBM, and Texas Instruments routinely convert the ideas of their employees into profits that sustain the corporation? How can buyers and sellers calculate the assets of the acquired firm in a merger or acquisition? How can an organization affect the firm's stock price using the leverage of ...
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Knowledge Mining: Proceedings of the Nemis 2004 Final Conference
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Spiros Sirmakessis (Editor)
This book contains the papers presented during the 3rd International Workshop on Text Mining and its Applications held in Athens, Greece. This workshop is the final event of the activities of a network of excellence in the area of text mining and its applications. "Knowledge Mining" includes contributions in the areas of: document processing, ...
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Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers
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Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka
This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distils his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the ...
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Collaborate to Compete: Driving Profitability in the Knowledge Economy
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Robert K Logan, Louis Stokes
Knowledge has become the new source of wealth, and the co-creation and sharing of knowledge through collaboration, the key to the success of today's organization. Collaboration is everyone's business and every business' concern. Unfortunately, the mindset of most business people is not one of cooperation, but of competition. "Collaborate to ...
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Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms
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Professor Mats Alvesson
The book addresses the concept of knowledge in a work and organizational context, professional or knowledge work, and knowledge-intensive firms. It provides a critical, moderate social constructivist understanding of these themes and the current interest in knowledge management, organization and the "knowledge economy". Professional service as ...
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