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Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4038 EAN: 9780071384711 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0071384715 Label: McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: February 27, 2004 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Studio: McGraw-Hill Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This is the first book to focus on the people side of knowledge management--what it takes to get employees to contribute to a knowledge system. Robert Buckman explains how to orchestrate this culture change, drawing from the lessons learned by Buckman Laboratories--the leader and pioneer in knowledge management--in implementing award-winning knowledge systems. His book is a practical primer on how organizations can move from "hoarding" knowledge to "sharing" it, building a global strategy that allows them to respond faster than the competition to any customer's need on a global basis. Buckman reveals how to:
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 Rating: - You won't regret picking up Robert Buckman's Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization!Elevator pitch Robert Buckman is the CEO emeritus of Memphis, TN chemical vendor Buckman Laboratories. I discovered his 2004 book Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization during a hopeful search on "knowledge management" at a Memphis Library kiosk. This was my first real offline research in the collaboration field and I was pleased to find such a good-looking book with multiple copies on the shelf. The jacket copy bills Buckman Labs as a bleeding-edge leader in the knowledge management ... Read More Rating:  - Not enough material for a bookThe author makes a few good points early in the book, like: develop a knowledge-sharing culture before expecting the technology to work, emphasize flat hierarchies over deep hierarchies, and demonstrate management commitment by having them use and lead the knowledge-sharing systems themselves. However, there's not enough substance here for the author to fill a book. Some later chapters are useful, but typically the main points are repeated and elaborated with a lot of filler. Rating:  - Superb book, my choice for gift to colleaguesEvery once in a while airport bookstores carry something truly extraordinary. This is such a book. It is so utterly perfect, sensible, readable, and on target that Monday I am buying copies to give to colleagues I know are interested in making more of our global information accessible and actionable. I am sure this book will alter the perceptions of any management team in any domain. At a larger level of international information sharing, what the Swedes are calling M4 IS (multi-national, ... Read More 
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