The Infinite Resource: Creating and Leading the Knowledge Enterprise

In all of history, there has been no resource resembling knowledge. Unlike commodities or industrial capital, knowledge is inexhaustible and only increases when shared. And now that the Knowledge Revolution has taken hold, organizations are scrambling to find ways to capture and leverage this most important of competitive advantages. In this unprecedented volume, nineteen of the best minds on business and government cut through the myriad myths and theories surrounding the knowledge phenomenon. Each offers today′s shell–shocked managers and civic leaders a clear vision of how organizations must reinvent themselves to remain viable in the not–too–distant future—to thrive in a world remarkably different from the one we have come to know.

Spis treści:
Introduction.
The Economic Imperatives of Knowledge: New Organizations for a New Era.
CREATING THE INTERNAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.
A Small Government Solution to Big City Problems.
Transforming Organizations into Market Economies.
Reintroducing Alcoa to Economic Reality.
Market–Based Management at Koch Industries.
Lufthansa Soars on Internal Markets.
FORMING A NETWORK OF COOPERATIVE ALLIANCES.
Knowledge Companies.
The Spherical Network organization.
The Age of the Network.
Novell′s Ten– Thousand– Piece Puzzle.
Managing the Virtual Organization.
LEVERAGING KNOWLEDGETH AN INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE.
Our Vision of the Information Superhighway.
Taking a Byte Out of Bureaucracy.
Welcome to the Revolution.
The Intelligent Organization.
An Advertising Agency Without Walls.
Riding the Information Tiger.

Nota biograficzna:
WILLIAM E. HALAL is professor of management at George Washington University. A respected management scholar, consultant, and author of three previous books, including The New Management (1996), he lives in Washington, D.C.

Okładka tylna:
I n all of history, there has been no resource resembling knowledge. Unlike commodities or industrial capital, knowledge is inexhaustible and only increases when shared. And now that the Knowledge Revolution has taken hold, organizations are scrambling to find ways to capture and leverage this most important of competitive advantages. In this unprecedented volume, nineteen of the best minds on business and government cut through the myriad myths and theories surrounding the knowledge phenomenon. Each offers today′s shell–shocked managers and civic leaders a clear vision of how organizations must reinvent themselves to remain viable in the not–too–distant future—to thrive in a world remarkably different from the one we have come to know.