Amazon.co.uk: Knowledge Unplugged: The McKinsey Global Survey of Knowledge Management: Jurgen Kluge, Wolfram Stein, Thomas Licht: Books

Perfect Partner

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management: The Definitive Resource for Professionals ("Harvard Business Review" Paperback) by HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

(8) �11.39

Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know by Thomas H Davenport

(14) �6.99

Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations by Chris Collison

(7) �13.99

Knowing-Doing Gap, The: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Jeffrey Pfeffer

(7) �11.99

The Knowledge-creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka

(3) �14.29

› Explore similar items : Books (7)

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links (What is this?)

Knowledge Management WP's

www.FindWhitePapers.com Latest Free Knowledge Management Reports From Leading Vendors

The Knowledge Experts

www.kpsol.com Providing software and services to increase your organisational IQ

Need Knowledge Mgmt?

www.NetDimensions.com Centralize, Integrate & Disseminate Manage Critical Information.

Product Description

Synopsis
This volume announces the results of a major survey of knowledge management practice within some of the most influential companies in the world, by an influential management consultancy group. The McKinsey Knowledge Management team interviewed top executives and also investigated how far their plans were implemented in practice, in 40 companies in the US, Europe and Japan. In many companies they discovered a significant gap between the vision at the top and the reality on the shop floor. This book draws together their findings and presents a practical guide to improving knowledge building and sharing at all levels within an organization, illustrated with case studies of best practice and common pitfalls.

From the Publisher
According to Business Week MCKINSEY AND COMPANY is by far the most influential consulting firm in the world.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)

First Sentence
As industrialization swept through most of the world, individual entrepreneurs and global corporations have had to grapple constantly with the ebb and flow of factors of production. Read the first page

Explore More
Concordance

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

(3 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

KM? Start here..., 9 Nov 2001

By	Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews

Recently, I've bought stacks of books on Knowledge Management and Corporate Culture as part of my MBA dissertation research, a topic still young and hot within the dizzy world of management theory, with comparatively few definitive stakes in the ground on which all academics agree.

Some books are dry and some are practical, but most highly prescriptive in their view of how KM should be implemented. However, the failure rate of KM strategies indicates a high discontinuity between the existing theory and practice, illustrated by the fact that the same success stories are repeated in case study data time and time again.

Why the failure rate? A number of books get to the heart of the issues (try Sutton & Pfeffer's "the Knowing:Doing gap" for instance), but few are as lucid and rooted in broad-based research as this volume. The quality of writing and research methodology make Knowledge Unplugged essential reading for anyone considering a study of KM, or especially those wishing to implement a strategy in practice.

As Albert Einstein put it: "Sometimes what counts can't be counted, and what can be counted doesn't count." Content relevance, context-sensitivity and perishability must be taken seriously - find out why here.

Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you?

(Report this)

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

Easy to read. Easy to understand., 28 Nov 2001

By A Customer

I read this on a flight to Cleveland and came off the plane feeling a tad smarter. Nicely written and easy to understand. The case studies gave me an idea of how to put some of the more abstract concepts into practice. Cool cover, too!

Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you?

(Report this)

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

a new look at knowledge, 1 Mar 2004

By	marnix catteeuw (Leuven Belgium) - See all my reviews

A look at knowledge from the knowledge side, without trying to explain why we need to manage it. Good summary how knowledge differs from tangible assets.

Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you?

(Report this)

› See all 3 customer reviews...