Knowledge Management

"Knowledge Management in 500 Words or Less” is a group of short essays designed to get busy managers and supervisors thinking about Knowledge Management in less time than reading a traditional technical manual on the subject. More importantly, this short read is designed to help them understand that the use of Knowledge Management concepts can help in overcoming some hurtles and business problems that jeopardize their mission success.

 The New Edge in Knowledge captures the most practical and innovative practices to ensure organizations have the knowledge they need in the future and, more importantly, the ability to connect the dots and use knowledge to succeed today. 

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies.

Share looks at how new business models are being created based on the disruptive idea of ‘sharing’. Uber, Airbnb, Skype, Alibaba, Google, Netflix and WeChat (China’s answer to Whatsapp) are all based on the sharing of information, assets and human capital, and a new and dynamic economy is already emerging. Traditional consumer and industrial models of Western capitalism are having to adapt to the ‘sharing’ concept, but few traditional organisations seem to understand the implications of the ‘share’ mindset for how they operate and compete.

Explosion of the economic relevance of data is related to: first, technological progress that has drastically reduced the costs of collecting and storing data; second, the advances in analytic techniques that have allowed for more advanced processing to extract greater value from available data. So, more value is extracted from exhausted data. Information generated for one purpose can and should be reused for another one, which means that data moves from primary to secondary uses. Data are more valuable over time.

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning.

Step into a new era of project management education with this comprehensive, audio-first study guide built for the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, the global standard shaping how project work is understood and applied in practice. This edition brings clearer principles, practical focus areas, and an integrated performance domain structure designed for real-world delivery across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.

Beyond the personal discovery and instant relief that Working Genius provides, the model also gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another’s natural gifts, which increases productivity and reduces unnecessary judgment.

Project managers with scaled-up business acumen are in high demand. Senior executives are searching for project management people who can align their projects to the company’s strategic intent and to the attainment of desired business outcomes. Fine-tuning your expertise as a project or program manager can have a meaningful impact on the achievements of your organization. When project managers achieve higher levels of business acumen, they open the door to unparalleled professional career growth and the achievement of their personal best. Why is this important? According to the Project ...

From grassroots to game plan, this book is the intersection of meaningful work, strong culture, and you. Our template called the THRIVE Model helps level-up your culture game (at work and home): helping today’s leaders succeed in tomorrow’s world. Unlike others books about workplace culture, MB builds on a heart-rooted foundation and utilizes an actionable model in order to grow. Taking culture action will change your world – for the better. Everyone wins when culture is strong. Conscious Culture helps leaders understand the importance of their most important asset – their people. ...

ICOR® Journey: Your Blueprint to Ultimate Productivity Are you constantly overwhelmed by deadlines, emails, and meetings? Feel like you're drowning in tasks, missing out on crucial details, and never finding time to achieve your goals? You’re not alone. Many professionals face these challenges daily. But there’s a solution: the ICOR® Journey, created for busy professionals. This guide helps you build a personalized productivity system tailored to your unique needs, helping you achieve more with less effort. ICOR® isn’t about working harder—it’s about working smarter. Whether ...

Proposal Intelligence Turn Proposal Chaos into a Competitive Advantage If you’ve ever wasted hours hunting for the “right” resume, rewriting the same project description from scratch, or stitching together outdated boilerplate under a looming deadline—you know the proposal grind is broken. Proposal Intelligence is the fix. This practical, step-by-step playbook shows you how to use Microsoft CoPilot and CoPilot Studio—tools you likely already have—to transform your proposal process from scattered and stressful to organized, fast, and consistently high-quality. You’ll discover ...

Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether face to face or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.

A young, untested team of problem solvers challenged with saving their company moves from board room to classroom in search of answers - and finds them through lively, open discourse with their innovative professor. This gripping, fast-paced business novel does for project management what Eliyahu M. Goldratt's other novels have done for production and marketing.

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale...

Rapid Knowledge Acquisition & Synthesis is a collection of the very best methods to get ahead of the typical learning curve. You’ll learn how to create an environment for information absorption at shocking speeds. From scientifically validated tips to best practices of some of the world’s smartest polymaths, you’ll get it all. Faster, deeper, stronger. Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a best-selling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success.

From two pioneers in business analytics, an update of the classic book on how analytics and business intelligence are transforming competition and how leading organizations build and compete on an analytical capability. Leading companies are doing more than just collecting and storing data in large quantities - they're now driving their competitive strategies based on data-driven insights. In Competing on Analytics, Davenport and Harris explain how analytics are transforming the basis of competition in industry after industry.

Denis Waitley has developed for you this revolutionary new program, Empires of the Mind. This program goes to the very heart of your life today, both professional and personal, and examines your prospects for the future. You'll learn how to discover and exploit your core passion-finding the skills you were born to develop and using them to increase your personal motivation, success and achievement.

Zettelkasten and the Art of Knowledge Management will walk you through the process of creating your knowledge graph with Obsidian. It will take you step by step from the basics of Personal Knowledgeable Management(PKM), to the Zettelkasten note taking process, to setting up your knowledge vault. It will show you how to charge up your knowledge vault and how to use it to great effect. It will walk you through the habits you need to transform your learning into a lifelong investment. Knowledge doesn't live in isolation: it's fundamentally connected to the people and events in our life. Yet ...

Humans are wired to connect; they thrive in supportive environments where they feel they belong. When people don't feel connected, they quickly become demotivated and unhappy. At a time when the workplace is changing, organisational structures are flattening, and workforces are increasingly fluid, supporting and connecting people is more important than ever. Communities of practice connect people across organisations around shared passions and practices, supporting one another, accelerating learning, breaking down silos, and building better practices. In this expanded second edition, Emily ...