Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Information Management

• This highly topical book focuses on work-based projects as a focus for organizational learning.
  
• Establishes the link between individual, community, organization and industry learning.
  
• Suggests that organizations need to recognise and understand this link if they are to capitalize on project-based learning.
  
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• This highly topical book focuses on work-based projects as a focus for organizational learning.
  
• Establishes the link between individual, community, organization and industry learning.
  
• Suggests that organizations need to recognise and understand this link if they are to capitalize on project-based learning.
  
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• Based on the author's detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings.
• The author uses this study to empirically describe how learning, knowing and organizing are practised.
• Centred on the concepts of -knowing in practice- and the -texture- of organizational knowledge.
• Gives a rich account of how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve.

In today's world, the basis of economic power and wealth is rapidly shifting from physical resources to intellectual resources. Former powerhouses like U.S. Steel are now minor players, while modern giants such as Microsoft dominate industries that didn't even exist twenty-five years ago. The economy...

Answers the Call of Businesses Worldwide

In light of global workforce changes, many organizations' are faced with a dilemma - how to maintain the right set of people at the right time in order to meet the company's long-term goals and vision....

As businesses learn more about competitive intelligence (CI) and how to use it, the ferocity of competition rises to a new level. Naturally, people will seek ways to protect themselves and their organizations against CI, but how? McGonagle and Vella, specialists in CI and what can be called CI countermeasures, have studied the problem from its beginning, and now offer corporate executives and executives in public and nonprofit organizations a portfolio of strategies and tactics. Each one is designed to meet two mutually important criteria: self-protection against the competitive...

The proliferation of computers in business requires increased managerial expertise in decision support systems and expert systems. Managers, executives, and scholars will find this in-depth examination of the latest tools and technologies available for decision support invaluable. The book provides a clear and complete discussion of the foundations and management applications of decision support, expert systems, artificial intelligence, and other management support systems. Practical examples are provided throughout, giving the business professional a useful tool for evaluating and...

Until now, business systems have focused on selected data within a certain context to produce information. A better approach, says Thierauf, is to take information accompanied by experience over time to generate knowledge. He demonstrates that knowledge management systems can be used as a source of power to outmaneuver business competitors. Knowledge discovery tools enable decision makers to extract the patterns, trends, and correlations that underlie the inner (and inter-) workings of a company. His book is the first comprehensive text to define this important new direction in computer...

One step above knowledge management systems are business intelligence systems. Their purpose is to give decision makers a better understanding of their organization's operations, and thus another way to outmaneuver the competition, by helping to find and extract the meaningful relationships, trends, and correlations that underlie the organization's operations and ultimately contribute to its success. Thierauf also shows that by tying critical success factors and key performance indicators into business intelligence systems, an organization's most important financial ratios can also be...

The authors bring a dual perspective--that of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economics--to the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology. The information economy is built upon the myriad and sometimes unforeseen ways in which information technologies have become engines of productivity in themselves, rather than just fancy adjuncts. In explaining the rise of the information economy, the authors provide not only valuable context often missing from today's...