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Building Organizational Intelligence
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By
Verna Allee, President and Founder of Verna Allee Associates.
Description
The Knowledge Evolution offers a unique and powerful road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday
work. This book reframes current thinking by delving into the hidden world of knowledge supporting both individual and organizational
performance, laying the foundation for the emerging art of knowledge management. Packed with best practices from leading edge companies,
essential guidelines, design principles, analogies, and conceptual frameworks, it serves as a practical guidebook for mastering the Knowledge
Era. It will help managers make more intelligent decisions about knowledge creation, reduce wasteful technology investments and lead
to new ease and confidence in applying knowledge and learning principles for themselves and for their organizations.
Verna Allee delves
into current thinking and practice to unravel the genetic code of knowledge itself. This revolutionary approach has surfaced a simple
and elegant knowledge archetype. She demonstrates how this archetype can help us deal with complexity and suggests ways of self-organizing
that make profound sense in today's networked enterprises. From strategies for core knowledge competencies to the key components of
individual expertise, The Knowledge Evolution zeroes in on the critical success factors for the knowledge-based enterprise. What emerges
is an approach to knowledge management that is simple enough to communicate at every level of the organization, yet rich enough to encompass
all the complexity of modern enterprises.
Verna Allee is the founder of Integral Performance Group, a consulting practice in California
that specializes in the learning organization, knowledge competencies, organizational systems change, systems thinking, total quality
and learning, benchmarking support, best practices research, and strategic development. She holds a degree in the Study of Human Consciousness
and her work is informed by a deep interest in intelligence, human development, cognition, intuition and consciousness. She is the author
of Learning Links: Enhancing Individual and Team Performance, Pfeiffer and Co-Jossey Bass, 1996.
Audience
practising managers, mid-level managers, professional business trade
Contents
Understanding Knowledge - Introduction: The knowledge era; Knowledge competencies for adaptive enterprises; The knowledge navigators;
Seeing patterns of knowledge, learning and performance; Knowledge archetypes in action; Knowledge, learning and organizations; Building
Blocks for Knowledge - Doing the data two-step; Gigamonsters and other dragons: Procedural Knowledge; Building functional knowledge;
The making of meaning; Integrating: The quest for the elegant solution; Renewing; Reconnecting with purpose; Expanded vision: Union performance;
Into Practice: Best Practices in Knowledge Management - Strategies: Creating practice fields for knowledge; Culture, knowledge mapping
and technology; The seeds of knowledge; The knowledge archetype in theoretical constructs; A question set for knowledge building in information
management.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 296 pages, publication date: APR-1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-9842-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-9842-X
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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