Knowledge Management & Research Process

This book explains the main concepts of knowledge management, creation, utilization and competitive advantages.

It views creativity and innovation as related to knowledge management, and presents both business and academic research as major contributors to the knowledge depository.

The research process and strategy as well as data collection, analysis, report writing and presentation as they occur in organizational and academic environments are given special attention, while strategic knowledge management and organizational learning concludes the Writ that introduced itself with a classical and human relations modern management approach.

Highlights include: knowledge creation, utilization & competitive advantage, strategist of the century, the fifth discipline, personal mastery, shared visioning, mental modeling, team learning, systems thinking, systematic approach to problem solving, new approach experimentation, learning from past history and experiences, learning from best practices and experiences of others, learning from failures, learning from successes, quick and efficient knowledge transfer in the entire business organization, critical thinking & knowledge creation, research & experimentation, sabbatical programs, demonstration projects: learning by doing, knowledge from failures: learning from the past, outside learning: benchmarking, outside learning: customers, industrial espionage, understudy tours and measurement tool.

There are seven chapters which are Modern Management as Influenced by Classical & Human Relations, Research Process & Strategy, Data Collection, Analysis, Reporting Writing & Presentation, Knowledge Creation, Utilization & Competitive Advantage, Creativity & Innovation, Business Plan case study and Strategic Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning.