ABSTRACT
Verna Allee, whose groundbreaking book 'The Knowledge Evolution' helped usher in the exploding field of knowledge management, has brought her experience-tested insights into an exciting new synthesis, penetrating to the very heart of value creation. 'The Future of Knowledge' strips away traditional business thinking to reveal the new patterns of management thought and practice essential for success in a more complex world.
With a gift for making the complex simple and practical, Allee weaves together diverse threads such as business webs, communities of practice, knowledge technologies, intangibles, network analysis, and biology to show why organizations must be supported as living systems before their natural networked pattern of organization can emerge.
Embodying Allee's visionary approach, 'The Future of Knowledge' brings forward a practical view of new theories, frameworks, tools, and methods offering businesses a guide to managing the increasing levels of complexity within their organizations and in society at large.
'The Future of Knowledge' works on many levels:
* At the strategic level, the new tools are intangible scorecards and understanding value networks
* At the tactical level, the knowledge management tools for exchanging and applying knowledge are knowledge networks and communities of practice
* At the operational level, a wealth of new technologies is supporting the codification, storage and delivery of the knowledge people need to complete their routine tasks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |72 pages
The Shape of Things to Come
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: The Center Keeps Moving
chapter |10 pages
A New Prosperity
chapter |19 pages
Evolution of Business Thinking
chapter |12 pages
Living Networks
chapter |12 pages
Learning into Complexity
part |37 pages
Operational Enterprise Knowledge
chapter |17 pages
Power and Limits of Technology
chapter |17 pages
The Web of Knowledge
part |40 pages
Tactical Approaches for Sense Making
chapter |19 pages
Knowledge Networks and Learning Communities
chapter |18 pages
Communal Learning and Beyond
part |78 pages
New Strategic Perspectives and Tools
chapter |17 pages
The New World of Intangibles
chapter |17 pages
Intangibles Go to Market
chapter |22 pages
The Value Network Perspective
chapter |18 pages
Value Network Examples
part |23 pages
Principles for Prosperity