"This book seeks to fill the knowledge gap surrounding Communities of Practice and their role within developing nations, focusing on critical topics related to different types of knowledge communities and the ways in which such communities generate innovation"--Provided by publisher

Provides a balance of conceptual and practical aspects of Knowledge Management, offering the opportunity for students and practitioners to understand and effectively consider knowledge management approaches in their organizations. Everyday examples are used to lead the reader into the...

Case Studies in Knowledge Management provides case-based lessons learned from several examples of actual applications of knowledge management in a variety of organizational and global settings. A variety of KM issues are explored, including issues associated with building a KMS, organizational...

Section I: Key Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Knowledge Management: Chapter I. Issues in Clinical Knowledge Management: Revisiting Healthcare Management / Rajeev K. Bali, Ashish Dwivedi, Raouf Naguib -- Chapter II. It's High Time for Application Frameworks for Healthcare / Efstathios...

This book addresses competencies as a key observable workplace behavior, driving learning and knowledge dissemination processes inside organizations providing information on implementing or improving competency-based approaches to e-learning.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis on current issues and trends in retrieval expansion. Containing research from leading international experts, this book presents future challenges and opportunities in the field valuable to academicians, researchers, and practitioners.

This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations. Furthermore, it has a global...

In a knowledge economy urban form and functions are primarily shaped by global market forces rather than urban planning. As the role of knowledge in wealth creation becomes a critical issue in cities, urban administrations and planners need to discover new approaches to harness the considerable...

As global enterprise grows increasingly reliant on electronic data, processes, and procedures, studies of the management of organizational knowledge are emerging at the forefront of critical research. This book combines cutting-edge research on the cultural, technical, organizational, and human...

Customer knowledge is becoming the new competitive asset in e-business that enables companies to serve each customer in his or her preferred way, and to nurture profitable and durable customer relationships. As companies grow and interact with more and more customers through increasingly diverse...