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A Leader's Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance

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John Girard and JoAnn L. Girard

Print Price: 
$25.00
E-book Price: 
$15.00
In Stock: 
June 20, 2009
Number of Pages: 
141
Print ISBN: 
978-1-60649-018-1
E-book ISBN: 
978-1-60649-019-8

This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time. It is replete with examples of successful knowledge management (with an eye toward the future) in current times and provides simple, time-tested steps.

Unlike other knowledge management books, this one is not about the present, but rather is a guide to creating value in the future. It deals with information overload and “enterprise dementia” and discusses the steps in discerning what things you want to know as opposed to suggesting tactics for managing everything (the Holy Grail). It uses examples from the most successful knowledge managers from around the world and is a simple, concise guide for this complex problem all organizations face.

Key Features

  • Discusses emerging ideas with excellent potential including projects which have focused on connection and collaboration.
  • Reviews past and present knowledge management projects and practices.
  • Provides tools, tactics, and techniques that have been tried and tested.
  • Presents simple ideas for complex environments.
  • Helps ensure future leaders in your organization can easily access the organizational memory and apply it in their time.

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John Girard and JoAnn L. Girard

John Girard and JoAnn L. Girard

John Girard is an associate professor of management at Minot State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate management courses. John is researching the relationships existing between information anxiety, organizational memory loss, and contemporary knowledge management theories. John is engaged in community activities such as Junior Achievement and the Military Affairs Committee.

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