Book description
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The only "how-to" guide for building an enterprise knowledge management system!
Until now, implementing Knowledge Management (KM) has been like nailing jelly to the wall-but not anymore! The Knowledge Management Toolkit delivers hands-on techniques and tools for making KM happen at your company. You'll learn exactly how to use KM to make sure that every key decision is fully informed as you build on your existing intranet, data warehouse, and project management investments. Top researcher Amrit Tiwana walks you through the development of an enterprise KM system from start to finish, showing how every stage can serve as a foundation for later enhancements.
10-step roadmap for implementing KM successfully
Checklists help you focus on critical issues every step of the way
Interactive toolkit format guides your strategic design decisions
Identify your key intangibles-and audit the knowledge you already have
Staff your project team and manage it effectively
Build a foundation of KM infrastructure that can evolve through results-driven, incremental steps
Mobilize your organization's subtle, "tacit" knowledge
Calculate and maximize ROI in KM systems
www.kmtoolkit.com-stay informed with the author's dedicated Web site, which provides ongoing support and updates from the KM community!
Discover the best ways to align KM with business strategy, avoid key KM pitfalls such as excessive formalization and overreliance on technology, master prototyping, and understand the new role of the Chief Knowledge Officer. Tiwana also presents KM case studies from leading companies worldwide, from Nortel to Rolls Royce. If you're ready to transform KM from business-school theory to real-world competitive advantage, start right here!
CD-ROM INCLUDED
Knowledge Management Toolkit, including an interactive 10-step KM roadmap and easy-to-customize KM evaluation forms -complete and unrestricted!
MindManager Personal for creating, organizing, and sharing knowledge maps
Performance Now Enterprise, a trial version of the #1 change management tool
FrontPage 2000 45-day trial
Plus great tools for data mining, integrating mobile systems, workflow, modeling, and more!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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I. The Rubber Meets the Road
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1. Introduction
- Knowledge Management: A Goldmine or an Empty Piggy-bank?
- What This Book Is About
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What This Book Will Do
- The 10-Step Roadmap Helps You—
- Identify Knowledge That Is Critical to Your Business
- Align Business Strategy and Knowledge Management
- Analyze Knowledge Existing in Your Company
- Build Upon, Not Discard, Existing IT Investments
- Focus on Processes, and Tacit, Not Just Explicit Knowledge
- Design a Future-Proof, Adaptable KM System Architecture
- Build and Deploy a Results-Driven KM System
- Implement Reward Structures, Leadership, and Cultural Enablers Needed to Make KM Work
- Calculate ROI and Apply Knowledge Metrics
- Learn From War Stories
- Why Not the "M" Word?
- How to Use This Book
- What This Book Is Not About
- Endnotes
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2. The Knowledge Edge
- Getting to Why: The New World
- The Missing Pieces
- Accounting for Abnormal Differences
- A Common Theme
- Intellectual Capital
- The 24 Drivers of KM
- Knowledge-Centric Drivers
- Technology Drivers
- Organizational Structure-Based Drivers
- Personnel-Focused Drivers
- Process Drivers
- Economic Drivers
- Creating the Knowledge Edge
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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3. From Information to Knowledge
- From Data to Information to Knowledge
- From Data to Knowledge
- Classifying Knowledge
- The Three Fundamental Steps
- Knowledge Management Systems and Existing Technology
- Taming the Tiger's Tail
- Business and Knowledge
- Knowledge-Friendly Companies
- Knowledge-Sharing Companies
- Is Your Company Ready for Knowledge Management?
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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1. Introduction
- II. The Road Ahead: Implementing Knowledge Management
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IIA. The First Phase: Infrastructural Evaluation and Leverage
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5. The Leveraged Infrastructure
- The Approach: Leverage, Leverage, Leverage
- Leveraging the Internet
- Enabling Technologies for the Knowledge Management Technology Framework
- Knowledge Servers
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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6. Aligning Knowledge Management and Business Strategy
- From Strategic Programming to Strategic Planning
- Knowledge Maps to Link Knowledge to Strategy
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Strategic Imperatives for a Successful KM System
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Twenty-four Lessons: Critical Success Factors
- Lesson 1: There Is No "One Right Way"
- Lesson 2: Reach a Working Definition of Knowledge
- Lesson 3: Focus on Processes and Not Just Technology
- Lesson 4: Live with Vague Knowledge Measures
- Lesson 5: Salability Necessitates Demonstration of Short-Term Impact
- Lesson 6: Count in Tacit Knowledge
- Lesson 7: Create a Shared Context
- Lesson 8: Begin with What You Have
- Lesson 9: Accommodate Reasoning and Assumptions
- Lesson 10: Future Think
- Lesson 11: Minimize Routing Retransmissions
- Lesson 12: Give Incentives, Not Faster Computers
- Lesson 13: Allow Everyone Access, and Allow Everyone to Contribute
- Lesson 14: Allow Confidentiality
- Lesson 15: Allow Access Anytime, Anywhere
- Lesson 16: Update Automatically
- Lesson 17: Supply Resource Maps to Ease Navigation
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Lesson 18: Use Other Databases in Addition to Corporate Best Practices Databases
- Lesson 19: Provide Management Support
- Lesson 20: Focus on Technology and Internal Consulting Support for Collaboration
- Lesson 21: Support Informality
- Lesson 22: Remember that Less Is More—The Art of Packaging Knowledge
- Lesson 23: Provide Logical Business Extensions
- Lesson 24: Determine Your Knowledge Delivery Weltanschuung
- The Knowledge-Strategy Link Revisited
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Twenty-four Lessons: Critical Success Factors
- Assessing Focus
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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5. The Leveraged Infrastructure
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IIB. The Second Phase: KM System Analysis, Design, and Development
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7. Infrastructural Foundations
- Technology Components of the KM Architecture
- The Seven-Layer KM System Architecture
- Foundation for the Interface Layer
- The Web or Notes?
- Collaborative Intelligence and Filtering Layer
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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8. Knowledge Audit and Analysis
- Hindsight + Insight = Foresight
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Measuring Knowledge Growth
- The Road From Art to Science
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Making Coffee: A Knowledge-Based Example
- Stage 0: Total Ignorance
- Stage 1: You Can Tell Good From Bad Coffee
- Stage 2: You Have Created a List of Variables
- Stage 3: You Can Determine the Significance of Variables
- Stage 4: You Can Now Measure Variables
- Stage 5: Repeatable Methodology or Recipe
- Stage 6: Repeatable Methodology + Localized Adaptability
- Stage 7: A Formal or Informal Model
- Stage 8: Perfect Knowledge
- The Knowledge Audit Team
- Choosing Your Company's K-Spots
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
- 9. Designing the KM Team
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10. Creating the KM System Blueprint
- Analyzing Lost Opportunities
- The Knowledge Management Architecture
- Components of a Knowledge Management System
- Designing Integrative and Interactive Knowledge Applications
- Build or Buy?
- User Interface Design Considerations
- A Network View of the KM Architecture
- Future-Proofing the Knowledge Management System
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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11. Developing the KM System
- The Building Blocks: Seven Layers
- The Interface Layer
- The Access and Authentication Layer
- The Collaborative Filtering and Intelligence Layer
- The Application Layer
- The Transport Layer
- The Middleware and Legacy Integration Layer
- The Repositories Layer
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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7. Infrastructural Foundations
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IIC. The Third Phase: KMS Deployment
- 12. Prototyping and Deployment
- 13. The CKO and Reward Structures
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IID. The Final Phase and Beyond: Measuring ROI and Performance
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14. Metrics for Knowledge Work
- Traditional Metrics
- Common Pitfalls in Choosing Metrics
- Three Ways to Measure
- Classifying and Evaluating Processes
- Alternative Metrics
- Lessons Learned
- Endnotes
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15. Case Studies
- Some Background
- Knowledge Management in the Aerospace Industry: The Case of Rolls Royce
- Knowledge Management in Sales and Marketing: The Case of Platinum Technology
- KM in Customer Support: The Case of Nortel
- KM in the Semiconductor Industry: GaSonics International
- The Goal: Three Months to Target
- KM Pilot Case: Monsanto Nutrition and Consumer Products
- Lessons Learned
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14. Metrics for Knowledge Work
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III. Side Roads: Appendices
- A. The Knowledge Management Assessment Kit
- B. Alternative Schemes for Structuring the KM System Front End
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C. Software Tools
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Software Tools
- acCrawl
- acSGML
- Alpha StockVue 99
- Ascent
- BrainForest Professional for PalmPilot PDAs
- BusinessVue 2.0
- CBR Content Navigator
- Concept Explorer
- DataWare Knowledge Management Suite
- DeltaMiner
- Email Ferret
- Employee Appraiser 4.0
- File, Phone, and News Ferrets
- G2 WebMiner
- HyperKnowledge
- Hyperwave
- Info Ferret
- Inspiration Professional
- Intranetics
- KA2 Knowledge Agents
- KeyFlow
- KnowledgeSEEKER
- MarketFirst
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000
- Microsoft Project
- Mind Manager
- MIS Alea
- MIS InterfaceBuilder
- Opentext Livelink
- PalmPilot AportisDoc
- PalmPilot BrainForest Mobile Edition
- PalmPilot Datebk3
- Performance Now
- Perspecta
- Profiler
- Remote Control Toolbar
- RetrievalWare
- SemioMap
- SmartDraw
- SolutionSeries
- ThoughtFlow
- Web-Enabled ART* Enterprise
- Web Ferret
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Software Tools
- D. Resources on the Web
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: Knowledge Management Toolkit, The
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 1999
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780130128539
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