This prescient, authoritative book is a vital reference for anyone concerned with harvesting, creating, distributing, or analyzing company information. HR executives and IT professionals will learn not only how to create the atlas to their company's universe but also how to define and assign the...

Written for technology professionals and business managers/owners alike, this new, easy-to-understand book provides you with a comprehensive overview of the key legal and economic issues that affect rights of access and use for intellectual property and knowledge assets, with special emphasis on...

Today, many organizations recognize the importance of intellectual capital as a principal driver of firm performance and a core differentiator. The aim of this e-book was to bring together the approaches of the different management consulting firms and to make their differences explicit...

The mid-1990s saw the rise of an important movement: a recognition that organizational knowledge, in its various forms and attributes, could be an important source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Knowledge management has become one of the core competencies in today's competitive...

Cover -- Title Page -- CIP Data -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Essentials -- Chapter 1: The Why, What, and How -- Creating the Future -- Quality and Innovation -- Strategy -- The Mind of the Innovator -- Convention and...

Programmatically outlines a paradigmatic shift towards an expanded fashion discourse at the intersection of doing and thinking. Designers, artists, curators and theorists investigate the multifaceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion and thus make a significant step to...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Figure 1.1 When Costs are Determined -- Figure 1.2 Hidden Costs and Consequences of Cheap Parts -- Figure 1.3 Cost of Engineering Changes Over Time -- Figure 1.4 The Decision Tree --...

Intro -- Title page -- CIP data -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1_Knowledge Management is Fun -- Introduction -- Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom -- Business Example -- Application and Results -- Chapter 2_Knowledge Management: Strategy, Not Technology --...