Knowledge Works is a handbook full of ideas to help you draw on people's knowledge to keep ideas fresh, reduce waste, and build competence and capability. You can either dip into it according to your needs, or work through it in a more systematic way to create a plan to improve your organization's performance. "Knowledge Works is a very practical book that provides proven solutions for important knowledge-related problems in organizations including: how to convince managers that knowledge is important, how to create a knowledge-sharing culture, and how to improve the quality of conversations. A must-read for all managers of knowledge-intensive organizations." Daan Andriessen, Professor of Intellectual Capital, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands "To be successful as a manager, you need to make better decisions, be more innovative and to do more with less. In this highly practical handbook, Christine Van Winkelen and Jane McKenzie offer new ideas to challenge your current thinking and achieve this. Their work is soundly based on 10 years collaborative research with the Knowledge Management Forum at the Henley Business School." David Gurteen, Founder and Director, Gurteen Knowledge Community "This book shows in a very inspiring and hands-on way how knowledge works. This is an utmost important understanding in the growing intellectual economy for increased operational knowledge effectiveness. The book has in an impressive way systematized many challenging K-works perspectives, from knowledge mapping and flows to social media and knowledge creating conversations. It is demonstrating a number of insightful real life stories and projects during 10 years of the Henley KM Forum, as well as providing valuable reading notes. Happy Knowledge Work ..." Leif Edvinsson, Honorary Chairman for the Henley KM Forum, The World´s First Professor of Intellectual Capital
In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published "Postgraduate Taining Guidelines". Throughout the document emphasis is placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work.; This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences in langage that is accessible to researchers at all levels of their research careers. It follows the themes that there is no single practice or correct methodology, and that the diversity and variety in terms of methodology and disciplinary focus are a sign of the sophistication and complexity of the proceses of social research. The text examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such as feminism, critical theory and postmodernism. The importance of selecting the research methodology most appropriate to the subject discipline concerned is emphasized.
In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published "Postgraduate Taining Guidelines". Throughout the document emphasis is placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work.; This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences in langage that is accessible to researchers at all levels of their research careers. It follows the themes that there is no single practice or correct methodology, and that the diversity and variety in terms of methodology and disciplinary focus are a sign of the sophistication and complexity of the proceses of social research. The text examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such as feminism, critical theory and postmodernism. The importance of selecting the research methodology most appropriate to the subject discipline concerned is emphasized.
About Janet: My Grandmother's Stories by Keith BrowerAn engaging recollection of one woman's journey from Quebec to rural Alberta post WWI as told by Janet's own captivated grandson--the author and artist, Keith Brower.What Others Have Said About Janet: My Grandmother's Stories"Keith Brower has captured the fascinating story of his maternal grandmother's migration from the English speaking eastern townships of Quebec to the farming life of east central Alberta after WWI. Important, the author's grasp of the English language creates the required pictures for the reader's imagination to stay with the story line. The stories have been organized on basic chronological sequence but the memories are not verbatim accounts; the memories of his grandmother's stories are re-told in the author's own words. The book will make an important contribution to understanding the post WWI development of Alberta. The added feature is the drawings at the beginning of each chapter which are the author's own artistic contribution."- Dr. David Rainey, Senior Research Fellow, UK
Janet ist die Vertraute und gelegentliche Geliebte Agnews, des Chefs eines international agierenden Konzerns. Die dritte Person ist Spiro. Je nach seinem Ermessen umwirbt er Janet, umschmeichelt sie, zuweilen mobbt er sie, damit er seinem Auftraggeber Erfolge vorweisen kann - ja, er geht auch so weit, dass er sie mit brisanten Fotos konfrontiert, die ihm von seiner Organisation zur Verf gung gestellt wurden. Er droht, sie ins Netz zu stellen. Dabei dient ihm Janet nur als Schl sselfigur. Denn nicht sie ist die Zielperson, sondern Agnew, der erfolgreiche Manager. Aber sie ist die einzige Person, die Zugang zu ihm hat. Am Ende seiner Bem hungen muss sich Spiro eingestehen, dass er seit der ersten Kontaktaufnahme in Janet verliebt ist. Die Diskrepanz zwischen seinem Auftrag, sie bis zum letzten Tropfen auszusaugen und seiner Zuneigung zu ihr setzt ungeahnte Kr fte frei, bei ihr wie bei ihm.
