| Author |
Title of Book |
Brief
Description & Link |
| Verna Allee |
The
Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence
(Butterworth-Heinemann: 1997) |
A wealth of how-to and best-practice
information regarding knowledge management and innovation. |
| James Botkin |
Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities
Can Revolutionize Your Company (Free
Press: 1999) |
Botkin shows how knowledge communities are
supplanting teams as building blocks for "organizations focused more on networks than
on traditional hierarchies." A knowledge community is a group of managers and workers
"whose mission is to create, use, and apply the new knowledge in their industry for
tangible business purposes." |
| James W. Cortada |
Rise of the Knowledge Worker (Butterworth-Heinemann: 1998) |
This book explores the origins and rise of the
knowledge worker, including the implications of this shift in the basic nature of work and
working for management, business and society. |
| Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak |
Working Knowledge: How Organizations
Manage What They Know (Harvard Business School Press:
1997) |
Davenport and Prusak examine how knowledge can
be nurtured in organizations. It contains numerous examples of successful knowledge
management projects. |
| Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak |
Information Ecology: Mastering the
Knowledge Environment (Oxford University Press: 1997) |
Davenport and Prusak propose what is claimed
to be a revolutionary new way of looking at an organization’s total information
environment, one that goes well beyond conventional MIS views. |
| Anthony Dibella |
How Organizations Learn
(Jossey-Bass: 1997) |
Tony Dibella provides a broad view of the
learning organization and synthesizes views on the subject ranging from Chris Argyris to
Peter Senge. Ultimately, this is a first-rate "how to" book but not a
cookbook approach. |
| Leif Edvinsson |
Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your
Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Roots
(HarperBusiness: 1997) |
Edvinsson, the well-known director of
intellectual capital at Skandia, shares the methods and techniques he developed at Skandia
for identifying and assessing intellectual capital. |
| Frances Horibe |
Managing Knowledge Workers: New Skills
and Attitudes to Unlock the Intellectual Capital in Your Organization (John Wiley & Sons: 1999) |
This book tackles "the human
dimension of knowledge management." Horibe examines the human side of three
categories of organizational capital: human capital, structural capital and customer
capital. |
| David H. Klein |
The
Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital
(Butterworth-Heinemann: 1998). |
This is a book of readings and the book itself
is part of Butterworth-Heinemann’s series on Resources for the Knowledge-based
Economy. The editor’s aim is to "provide perspectives, case studies, frameworks,
models and tools" for use by organizations developing agendas for managing
intellectual capital. |
| Thomas Koulopoulos |
Smart Things to Know About Knowledge
Management (Capstone, Ltd: 1999) |
This book, by one of the founders and
principals of The Delphi Group, is so new that not much information about it is available.
However, given the author's stature in the field of KM, it is sure to have some
important insights. |
| Thomas Koulopoulos |
Corporate Instinct (John
Wiley: 1997) |
Koulopoulos deals at length with issues
related to knowledge and intellectual capital, with emphasis on capturing and sharing. |
| Dorothy Leonard-Barton |
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and
Sustaining the Sources of Innovation (Harvard
Business School Press: 1995) |
Barton provides a survey of innovation and the
barriers to innovation, with emphasis on the fact that knowledge resides in people. |
| Paul. S. Myers |
Knowledge
Management and Organizational Design (Butterworth-Heinemann:
1996) |
A book of readings regarding the interplay
between knowledge and organizational structure. |
| Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi |
The Knowledge-Creating Company: How
Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (Oxford
University Press: 1995) |
Building on Nonaka’s 1991 HBR article,
the authors examine in great detail the differences between the ways Japanese and western
companies manage knowledge and innovation. |
| Carla O'Dell and C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. |
If
Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice (Free Press: 1998) |
O’Dell and Jackson, of the American
Productivity & Quality Center, use case studies to illustrate the processes through
which the internal transfer of knowledge and best practice can occur. |
| Laurence Prusak (editor) |
Knowledge in Organizations (Butterworth-Heinemann: 1997) |
Prusak has assembled a book of first-rate
readings by important authors. The common thread is indicated by the title: knowledge in
organizations. Of particular interest is Michael Polanyi’s essay on the subject of
"tacit" knowledge. |
| Rudy Ruggles |
Knowledge Management Tools (Butterworth-Heinemann: 1996) |
Knowledge Management Tools is a unique
collection of articles that provides answers to questions such as: What are the tools of
the Knowledge Era? How can technology help knowledge generation, codification, and
transfer? What are key considerations as such tools are implements? What might the future
hold for the augmentation and automation of knowledge work? |
| Peter Senge |
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and
Practice of the Learning Organization (Currency/Doubleday:
1990) |
Senge’s book is the "bible" for
advocates of the "learning organization" (companies that learn from their
mistakes to gain advantage in the marketplace). |
| Peter Senge (editor) |
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook:
Strategies and Tools for Building A Learning Organization
(Currency/Doubleday: 1994) |
The handbook for building a learning
organization; step-by-step guide, tools, techniques, exercises and quizzes. |
| Peter Senge et al |
The Dance of Change
(Doubleday: 1999) |
This companion piece to the first two of
Senge's book above delves into the details of how to make his learning organization
programs stick. Long-term efforts are examined at several companies. |
| Thomas A. Stewart |
Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of
Organizations (Doubleday: 1997) |
Stewart’s book expands on concepts ideas
raised in a series of articles he wrote as an editor at FORTUNE. (A copy of the
Foreword from his book is included.) |
| Karl-Erik Sveiby |
The New Organizational Wealth: Managing
& Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets (Berrett-Koehler:
1997) |
Sveiby shows how to predicate business
strategy on knowledge and provides a tool box full of knowledge management tools. |
| Various |
California
Management Review: Special Issue on Knowledge and the Firm
(California Management Review: Spring, 1998) |
Although technically not a book, the special
Spring 1998 issue of California Management Review includes 17 original articles by
thought leaders in the field of knowledge management. Copies of this special issue
are still for sale. |
| Various |
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge
Management (Harvard Business School Press: 1998) |
This is a compilation of HBR articles related
to knowledge and knowledge management. It includes "The Knowledge Creating
Company" by Ikujiro Nonaka and "Managing Professional Intellect: Making the Most
of the Best" by James Brian Quinn et al. |
| Etienne Wenger |
Communities of Practice: Learning,
Meaning and Identity (Cambridge University Press: 1999) |
This is the definitive work on the subject of
Communities of Practice. |