Knowledge Entrepreneur: How Your Business Can Create, Manage and Profit from Intellectual Capital [Paperback]

In many companies, knowledge management has focused almost exclusively upon the packaging of existing knowledge. Knowledge Entepenear is designed to help readers boost revenues and profit by significantly improving the performance of existing activities and also creating new offerings that generate income.

In many companies knowledge management has focused almost exclusively upon the packaging of existing knowledge. This book is designed to help readers boost revenues and profit by significantly improving the performance of existing activities and also creating new offerings that generate additional income. It shows how practical knowledge-based job-support tools can transform work group productivity, and reveals the enormous scope for addressing contemporary problems such as "information overload" with imaginative responses.Additional information includes: a list of possible commercial ventures; detailed checklists that can be used for identifying and analysing opportunities for knowledge entrepreneurship; and exercises for assessing entrepreneurial potential and "scoping" possible products and services. The free CD-ROM packaged with the book gives examples of particular knowledge-based job support tools that have dramatically improved desired results in crucial areas such as winning more business.

Colin Coulson-Thomas was educated at the London School of Economics and at the universities of Aston, Chicago and Southern California. He is Professor of Competitiveness at Luton Business School, Luton University and the National Centre for Competitiveness. He is also Visiting Professor at the Management Development Institute in Delhi. He holds a portfolio of directorships and is Chairman of Adaptation Ltd, ASK Europe plc, Cotoco Ltd and Policy Publications. A counsellor on business development and corporate direction, transformation and learning, he has helped over 50 boards to improve board and corporate performance. Colin is also Chairman of the judges for the e-Business Innovations Awards. He is the author or co-author of over 30 books and reports.

Acknowledgements

About the author

Other recent books by Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas

CHAPTER 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Abundant and accessible information

Implications, impacts and consequences

Knowledge-based opportunities

The need for help

The knowledge entrepreneur

Aims and scope of book

CHAPTER 2 MANAGING KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Knowledge management

Loss of knowledge

Knowledge exploitation

Knowledge frameworks

Premium knowledge

CHAPTER 3 CORPORATE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE CREATION

Knowledge creation

Knowledge as a flow rather than a stock

Knowledge and learning

Knowledge creation as a corporate priority

Protecting intellectual capital

Where knowledge entrepreneurs can help

CHAPTER 4 CONTEMPORARY INFORMATION PROBLEMS

Information overload: winners and losers

Winning and losing

The search for single solutions

Taking certain approaches too far

Barking up the wrong tree

Barriers to entry

Changing organizations and emerging issues

CHAPTER 5 REQUIREMENTS OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS

Customers

Suppliers and business partners

Investors

The contribution of boards

The myth of inevitable progress

Supportive approaches to management

Leadership for learning

CHAPTER 6 CREATING ENTERPRISE CULTURES

Becoming a player

Working with employers

Organizing for entrepreneurship

Unity and diversity

Ten essential freedoms

CHAPTER 7 MONITORING TRENDS AND THE SCOPE FOR KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Freedom of operation

Understanding issues and implications

Effective issue monitoring

Supporting wealth creation

CHAPTER 8 IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES

Establishing search criteria

Searching for performance improvement opportunities

Improving sales productivity

Job support tools

Benefits of using support tools

CHAPTER 9 CREATING INFORMATION- AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED OFFERINGS

Packaging what you know

Building job support tools

Lessons that can be learnt

Differentiation

CHAPTER 10 BECOMING A KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEUR

Entrepreneurial qualities

The knowledge entrepreneur

Crossing the Rubicon

The challenge of launching new products

Creating a new product launch support tool

Advantages of a product launch support tool

Using examples of best practice

CHAPTER 11 GETTING STARTED

Routes to entrepreneurship

Turning a hobby into a business

Selecting corporate partners

Creating a welcoming corporate environment

Creating communities of entrepreneurs

Organizing for learning and entrepreneurship

Public policy requirements

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