Applying knowledge management : techniques for building corporate memories /

The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresses this need by helping an organization to leverage its information resources and knowledge assets by...

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Main Authors: Watson, Ian, 1960
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Morgan Kaufmann,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781558607606
Summary: The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresses this need by helping an organization to leverage its information resources and knowledge assets by "remembering" and applying its experience. KM involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, application, generation, and review of the knowledge assets of an organization in a controlled way. Today, organizations are applying KM throughout their systems, from information management to marketing to
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0585448183
9780585448183
0080499279
9780080499277
Index Number: HD30
CLC: F272
Contents: Preface; Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory; Understanding Case-Based Reasoning; Managing Product Quality: Total Recall at National Semiconductor; Developing Expertise: Color Matching at General Electric Plastics; Improving Process Design: Knowledge Sharing in an Aluminum Foundry; Benchmarking Best Practice: Internal Financial Control at Deloitte Touche; Information Retrieval: Intelligent Online Product Selection for Analog Devices; Distributed Sales Support: Web-Based Engineering at Western Air; Personalizing Information Services: Intelligent Digital TV at ChangingWorlds; Lesson