Up until now, most books on Knowledge Management have focused on ways to gather and manage the ever-growing information stream flooding businesses today. Value-Based Knowledge Management goes further by identifying the changes companies will need to make in order to thrive in the Knowledge Economy. Knowledge simply won’t be enough, companies must gather and manage meaningful knowledge to create value for themselves, their customers and society. The victors in the “virtual” market “space” will have one thing in common: value-adding knowledge. The “triple value package” includes a visual book and two CD-ROMs. The book is filled with colorful graphics that come to life through straight talk between the authors. Additional sidebars give insight into Best Practices from benchmark companies that skillfully handle the challenges of the Knowledge Economy. The first CD-ROM, Value-Based Knowledge Management, is a stimulating animated tutorial or executive summary of the book. The second, The Value Enhancer is an assessment tool to let you be the judge of whether a company’s knowledge practices facilitate or hamper its value-adding business performance. Value-Based Knowledge Management even glances into our economic future by discussing the advantages for gathering, processing, and implementing, knowledge that the new quantum company may bring. The Value-Based Knowledge Management approach is a practical application and offers a unique synthesis between Operational Knowledge Management (the focus of most KM books) and Strategic Knowledge Management which ensures that a company’s knowledge reflects its strategy and objectives. Value-Based Knowledge Management is authored by members of the Amsterdam, Netherlands, Knowledge Management Unit of KPMG, the globally prominent accounting and consulting firm. Professor Dr. Ren Tissen, Daniel Andriessen and Frank Lekanne Deprez have collaborated to produce a book that can guide you through today’s chaotic world in which economies supersede each other in rapid succession, where the Quantum Economy is poised to present new challenges, new opportunities.
Customer Reviews
Good book, introduces a other view of the corp’s real value:
I had to read this book for my HRM course at Nyenrode, mr. Tissen is my prof. This book cannot be compared to any studybook I’ve ever used before. Mr Tissen introduces a lot of difficult terms wich I couldn’t directly understand and that are rather vage. His vision of the futere isn’t of any use to me, and I think that the autors don’t have to try to beat Nostradamus because they can’t.
Exciting, interesting and practical, VBKM flies high!:
Finally, I’ve found a book that demystifies knowledge management, offering a perspective that doesn’t originate from one of America’s ivory towers. It’s refreshing and enlightening to read about international companies operating within the global marketspace and how they’ve met the challenges posed by the Knowledge Economy.
Unlike other KM books I’ve read, Value-Based Knowledge Management showed me how to recognize “meaningful” knowledge and why it is more important for my company to possess only that type of knowledge. I now have a totally different attitude toward the knowledge of my customers, my associates and my fellow employees.
The companion CD-ROMs are invaluable. The Value Enhancer is helping me to assess my company’s abilities and increase its competencies. The tutorial CD-ROM keeps me on track and prepares me for the next bend in the road.
Thanks, Amazon, for offering within your titles a truly integrated approach to knowledge management.
Very mpressed and actually added new value in my view on KM:
This is the first book I have seen on this subject who looked at knowledge management not from a technical viewpoint but rather from a ‘ value’ based viewpoint. What does it mean, don’t look at all information categories but only and the information types which might add value. The CD’s are a perfect tool to support you. A perfect management toolkit!
Practical book full of case studies and best practices!:
The most intriguing aspect of this book is that it is more than a book. The first CD-ROM gives a fast-paced overview of the entire book and the second, The Value Enhancer, lets you measure your company’s ability to bring knowledge to value. What an eye-opener!
