Knowledge In Organizations

Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the creation and use of knowledge in organizations, as well as their limitations, with a set of methods for making the knowledge and experience of individuals, groups and organizations explicit. This book addresses the increasing need for organizations to make the knowledge and experience of individuals and groups explicit by a providing comprehensive set of methods for capturing that personal and organizational knowledge. Although people in organizations clearly rely on experience and other forms of implicit knowledge for most of their actions, little attention has been given to ways of eliciting and holding on to such knowledge. In a time and environment where business rationale is increasingly based on knowledge rather than tangible assets, this becomes essential. Knowledge in Organizations provides a clear framework derived from cognitive psychology through which knowledge access, transfer and creation in organizations can be understood and the sharing of knowledge enhanced. This book addresses the increasing need for organizations to make the knowledge and experience of individuals and groups explicit by a providing comprehensive set of methods for capturing that personal and organizational knowledge.

Part of the series, "Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy", this work gives an overview of how knowledge is valued and used in organisations. It gives readers a grounding in how best to understand the highest valued asset they have in their organisations; and, describes the importance of knowledge to the organizations. First Published in 1997. The second in the readers' series, Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge In Organisations gives an overview of how knowledge is valued and used in organisations. It gives readers excellent grounding in how best to understand the highest valued asset they have in their organisations.