A pedagogical approach to the principles and architecture of knowledge management in organizations This textbook is based on a graduate course taught at Stevens Institute of Technology. It focuses on the design and management of today's complex K organizations. A K organization is any company that generates and applies knowledge. The text takes existing ideas from organizational design and knowledge management to enhance and elevate each through harmonization with concepts from other disciplines. The authors—noted experts in the field—concentrate on both micro- and macro design and their interrelationships at individual, group, work, and organizational levels. A key feature of the textbook is an incisive discussion of the cultural, practice, and social aspects of knowledge management. The text explores the processes, tools, and infrastructures by which an organization can continuously improve, maintain, and exploit all elements of its knowledge base that are most relevant to achieve its strategic goals. The book seamlessly intertwines the disciplines of organizational design and knowledge management and offers extensive discussions, illustrative examples, student exercises, and visualizations. The following major topics are addressed: Knowledge management, intellectual capital, and knowledge systemsOrganizational design, behavior, and architectureOrganizational strategy, change, and developmentLeadership and innovationOrganizational culture and learningSocial networking, communications, and collaborationStrategic human resources; e.g., hiring K workers and performance reviewsKnowledge science, thinking, and creativityPhilosophy of knowledge and informationInformation, knowledge, social, strategy, and contract continuumsInformation management and intelligent systems; e.g., business intelligence, big data, and cognitive systems Designing Knowledge Organizations takes an interdisciplinary and original approach to assess and synthesize the disciplines of knowledge management and organizational design, drawing upon conceptual underpinnings and practical experiences in these and related areas.
This book covers most important practical topics of epilepsy in childhood, specifically written for students, residents and practicing clinicians. The format is of test reviews with authentic case vignettes and multiple choice questions.This book focuses on logical problem solving using diagnostic pearls through many real life case simulations. This book is written by an academic pediatric epilepsy specialist providing a broad overview of the content of the specialty board examinations. This test review will help those who are taking the board examinations for the first time as well as those aspiring re-certification. There are ample selected EEG photographs included which are geared towards the practicing neurologist emphasizing the pattern recognition to arrive at a correct diagnosis. Key features include: -Multiple choice format for board reviews-Important EEG pictures in various epilepsy syndromes from newborns to older children-References which are current and comprehensive for further reading on the topic
Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war.
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize--winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past-a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder-Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet.
