Managing Knowledge-Based Initiatives from Pilot to Enterprise Deployment shows practitioners how to take their successful knowledge management pilot programs and to successfully expand them throughout the organization. Keeping the unique challenges of knowledge-based work in mind, Stacy Land explores what knowledge managers/project managers must know to effectively navigate within their organizations, position their work in a value-based framework, and publicize their work to increase buy-in. Topics include avoiding common sand traps, working with committees and multiple departments, compliance, entering a new world of politics and funding, achieving organizational alignment, developing and executing on a value proposition, negotiating executive sponsorship, and more.

Citing international examples such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Google, Boeing, and Amazon, the author covers all aspects of knowledge protection, from employee retention strategies to physical security.

Knowledge management is a hot topic in the modern corporate world and this unique, practical book helps managers utilize corporate information to achieve real gains in productivity and profitability.

Technological and knowledge diffusion through innovative networks / Beatriz Helena Neto, Jano Moreira de Souza and Jonice de Oliveira -- Knowledge flow networks and communities of practice for knowledge management / Rajiv Khosla [und weitere] -- A case study of knowledge sharing in Finnish Laurea lab as a knowledge intensive organization / Abel Usoro and Grzegorz Majewski -- The role of "BriDGE" SE in knowledge sharing : a case study of software offshoring from Japan to Vietnam / Nguyen Thu Huong and Umemoto Katsuhiro -- Factors influencing knowledge sharing in immersive virtual worlds : an empirical study with a second life group / Grzegorz Majewski and Abel Usoro -- Re-establishing grassroots inventors in national innovation system in less innovative Asian countries / C.N. Wickramasinghe [und weitere] -- Knowledge management & collaboration in steel industry : a case study / Chagari Sasikala -- Contingency between knowledge characteristics and knowledge transfer mechanism : an integrative framework / Ziye Li and Youmin Xi -- Emotionally intelligent knowledge sharing behavior model for constructing psychologically and emotionally fit research teams / R. Khosla [und weitere] -- Fundamental for an IT-strategy toward managing viable knowledge-intensive research projects / Paul Pöltner and Thomas Grechenig -- A new framework of knowledge management based on the interaction between human capital and organizational capital / Zheng Fan, Shujing Cao and Fenghua Wang -- Knowledge management of healthcare by clinical-pathways / Tomoyoshi Yamazaki and Katsuhiro Umemoto -- Factors affecting knowledge management at a public health institute in Thailand / Vallerut Pobkeeree, Pathom Sawanpanyalert and Nirat Sirichotiratana -- The influence of knowledge management capabilities and knowledge management infrastructure on market-interrelationship performance : an empirical study on hospitals / Wen-Ting Li and Shin-Tuan Hung -- Functional dynamics in system of innovation : a general model of SI metaphoric from traditional Chinese medicine / Xi Sun, Xin Tian and Xingmai Deng -- Collaborative writing with a wiki in a primary five English classroom / Matsuko Woo [und weitere] -- Cross-language knowledge sharing model based on ontologies and logical inference / Weisen Guo and Steven B. Kraines -- A study of evaluating the value of social tags as indexing terms / Kwan Yi -- Leadership 2.0 and Web2.0 at ERM : a journey from knowledge management to "knowledging" / Cheuk Wai-yi Bonnie and Brenda Dervin -- Motivation, identity, and authoring of the wikipedian / Joseph C. Shih and C.K. Farn -- Intellectual capital and performance : an empirical study on the relationship between social capital and R & D performance in higher education / Mohd Iskandar Bin Illyas, Rose Alinda Alia and Leela Damodaran -- Managing knowledge in a volunteer-based community / John S. Huck, Rodney A. and Dinesh Rathi -- Knowledge management practices in a not for profit organizations : a case study of I2E / Matthew Broaddus and Suliman Hawamdeh -- Personal information management tools revisited / Yun-Ke Chang [und weitere] -- Competencies sought by knowledge management employers : context analysis of online job advertisements / Shaheen Majid and Rianto Mulia -- Migration or integration : knowledge management in library and information science profession / Manir Abdullahi Kamba and Roslina Othman -- Evaluating intellectual assets in university libraries : a multi-site case study from Thailand / Sheila Corrall and Somsak Sriborisutsakul -- From for-profit organizations to non-profit organizations : the development of knowledge management in a public library / Kristen Holm, Kelly Kirkpatrick and Dinesh Rathi -- Network structure, structural equivalence and group performance : a simulation research on knowledge process / Hua Zhang and Youmin Xi -- Exploring the knowledge creating communities : an analysis of the linux kernel developer community / Haoxiang Xia, Shuangling Luo and Taketoshi Yoshida -- Systemic thinking in knowledge management / Yoshiteru Nakamori -- Study on the methods of identification and judgment for opinion leaders in public opinion / Liu Yijun, Tang Xi Jin and Gu Jifa

This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifespan will have a profound impact on companies' employment policies, and employees' strategies for gaining knowledge.How to manage knowledge selection, including personnel management, will be the key to survival for companies, when corporate competency shifts from stable business contacts to the quality of their offers, and when the value of knowledge, which is the foundation of products and services, is becoming more and more short-lived. Work-sharing and human resource derivatives are thus proposed as new concepts in order to deal with knowledge selection risk.

Knowledge Management Initiatives in Singapore is the first book that provides descriptive analyses of the award-winning knowledge management projects undertaken by the public sector organisations in Singapore. It features 12 organisations honoured for their outstanding efforts to understand and implement knowledge management, not only to enhance tactical efficiency and effectiveness but also to plan for strategic opportunities in the dynamic environment. Based on these successful case studies, the book provides a comprehensive overview and approach for organisations to understand how to plan and execute their knowledge management journeys. This includes analysing the rationale, thereby calibrating specific knowledge management plans and roles; identifying resources for knowledge management implementation (such as people, process and technology); and evaluating the outcomes and future paths. This book will be invaluable to managers, knowledge management practitioners and graduate students in the field, offering deep actionable insights on the implementation of knowledge management projects and providing a balanced perspective of organisational knowledge management encompassing both theory and pragmatism.

"This book provides comprehensive coverage of all areas (people, process, and technology) necessary to become a knowledge-based enterprise. It presents several frameworks facilitating the implementation of a KM initiative and its ongoing management so that pertinent knowledge and information are always available to the decision maker, and so the organization may always enjoy a sustainable competitive advantage"--Provided by publisher.