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Knowledge Management
Data Warehousing: Building the Corporate Knowledge
This book covers the fundamentals of successfully designing, modeling and delivering a data warehouse and details techniques and links readers to a comprehensive methodology that enables system professionals to build and deliver a data warehouse that meets both corporate and management needs.
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
This book explains its importance and potential uses in the networked environment, and describes existing metadata standards in the field of cultural heritage information. A glossary of terms and expressions and a selected bibliography provide useful information for understanding this timely topic.
Web Warehousing and Knowledge Management
Rob Mattison cuts through the hype that surrounds data warehousing and data analysis; he explores the software tools that provide the ability--IQ and Aperio--and he reviews IBM's various data mining tools. This book--particularly the section on Online Analytical Processing [OLAP] reports--cries out for information on putting Extensible Markup Language (XML) to work in data warehouse applications.
Data Warehouse Management Handbook
Provides a practical hands-on source book that guides you through the daily process of building and maintaining a data warehousing environment. CD-ROM included.
Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach
Enterprise Knowledge Management gives you just what you need: a precise yet adaptable methodology for defining, measuring, and improving data quality and managing business intelligence. This one-of-a-kind book begins by laying out an economic framework for understanding the real business value of data quality. It then outlines rules for measuring data quality and determining where it can and should be improved. Finally, it teaches proven techniques through which you can achieve meaningful advances in the quality of your business data, including domain- and mapping- based consolidation of enterprise knowledge.
Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management
Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management provides a multidisciplinary view of the wide range of ideas on innovative Internet information systems as they related to organizational memory and knowledge. Using the Internet as the primary architectural base, this book presents results and challenges of Internet-based knowledge management systems.
Knowledge Management for the Information Professional
Essential Guide to Knowledge Management, The: e-Business and CRM Applications
A real-world guide to the essential principles of knowledge management. Shows how KM and CRM technologies work, and how the impact the IT infrastructure. Also shows how to use team- building and goal-setting exercises to create excellent KM/CRM projects, and how to align e-business strategy and technology choices. Softcover. DLC: Knowledge management.
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. The eight articles in Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management highlight the leading-edge thinking and practical applications that are defining the field of knowledge management. Includes Peter Drucker's prophetic "The Coming of the New Organization" and Ikujiro Nonaka's "Knowledge-Creating Company."
Document Warehousing and Text Mining: Techniques for Improving Business Operations, Marketing, and Sales
This unique book shows warehouse developers and managers how to build this new type of warehouse, how to organize free-form text for easy access, and, most importantly, how to exploit text mining techniques to provide timely and accurate information for decision-makers. The author covers the complete process of building and managing a document warehouse, including examples of actual implementations, a review of security issues and tools such as XML and Wide Area Information Servers and their selection criteria, and how text mining techniques are different from data mining techniques.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management
Guidance on how to share information among peers to helps companies achieve greater success. Explains the latest management buzzwords, offers advice on keeping open communication with customers and co-workers, and maintaining a knowledge management program with the future in mind.
Knowledge Management Toolkit, The: Practical Techniques for Building a Knowledge Management System
Delivers hands-on techniques and tools for making Knowledge Management happen at your company. Presents KM case studies from leading companies worldwide, from Nortel to Rolls Royce.
Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations
There are a number of fine books that have defined the concepts related to knowledge management and how it is relevant to organizations. However, many of these books may have left you with questions such as: "So what? What can our organization or our executives do with the concepts, theories and case studies? Where do new information technologies, such as Internet and WWW fit within deployment of knowledge management in our organizations? How can we understand and deploy knowledge management for not generating hype but for solid real value business propositions for our organization?" Here is a very timely book borne out of the need for addressing these critical issues.
Advances in Database Technologies
This book presents the thoroughly refereed joint post- proceedings of three workshops held during the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '98, in Singapore in November 1998. The 50 revised papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book is divided in sections on knowledge discovery, data mining, data and web warehousing, multidimensional databases, data warehouse design, caching, data dissemination, replication, mobile networks, mobile platforms, tracking and monitoring, collaborative work support, temporal data modelling, moving objects and spatial indexing, spatio-temporal databases, and video database contents.
Data Integration: Where IT and Knowledge Management Meet (PDF download)
Info-Tech White Papers deliver comprehensive information and advice on selected topics of keen interest to information technology managers. The Info-Tech Research group specializes in creating concise directions that busy technology managers and professionals can put to use right away. Subscribers to our Info- Tech Advisor product receive more than two dozen White Papers like this one annually. Knowledge management (KM) is a murky concept, and IT's role in KM initiatives is even murkier. This Info-Tech white paper reveals IT's role in KM and some best practices for implementation.
Advances in Data Mining: Applications in E-Commerce, Medicine, and Knowledge Management
Presents six thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers of describing selected prospects on data mining.
Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management
Is the Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) knowledge management's killer app? Leading expert Joseph M. Firestone, the first author to formulate the idea of the Enterprise Knowledge Portal, breaks new ground and looks to the future with a practical, but comprehensive approach to enterprise portals and their relationship to knowledge management. Providing a clear and novel overview, Firestone tackles a wide range of topics ranging from functional EIP applications, estimating costs and benefits of EIPs, variations in EIP technical architecture, the role of intelligent agents, the nature of knowledge management, portal product/solution segmentation, portal product case studies, to the future of the EIP space.
Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise
If you are responsible for the management of an intelligence enterprise operation and its timely and accurate delivery of reliable intelligence to key decision-makers, this book is must reading. It is the first easy-to-understand, system-level book that specifically applies knowledge management principles, practices and technologies to the intelligence domain. The book describes the essential principles of intelligence, from collection, processing and analysis, to dissemination for both national intelligence and business applications. This unique resource provides a balanced treatment of the organizational and architectural components of knowledge management, offering a clear understanding of the system infrastructure, tools and technologies necessary to implement the intelligence enterprise.
Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
The term "knowledge media," was defined by its coiner "as an information network with semi-automated services for the generation, distribution, and consumption of knowledge." These 14 contributions, presented by Grutter (U. of St. Gallen, Switzerland), attempt to answer the question of how recent trends towards knowledge media will change the way things are done in healthcare. Articles cover a history of the development of knowledge media, the use of classification models for the coding of diagnoses or indexing of medical subjects, a semantically advanced query language for medical knowledge and decision support, the lack of sophisticated security measures in computerized healthcare applications, the use of context- dependent access control to support distributed clinical trials, the acquisition and appraisal of current relevant clinical evidence, and the coding of medical information in electronic form.
Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management
In 'Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management,' Firestone and McElroy, the architects of the New Knowledge Management (TNKM) provide an in-depth analysis of the most important issues in the field of Knowledge Management.
Essentials of Knowledge Management
Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in knowledge management.
Knowledge Management: Processes and Technologies
A compact guide to knowledge management, this book makes the subject accessible without oversimplifying it. Organizational issues like strategy and culture are discussed in the context of typical knowledge management processes. The focus is always on pointing out all the issues that need to be taken into account in order to make knowledge management a success. The book then goes on to explore the role of information technology as an enabler of knowledge management relating various technologies to the knowledge management processes, showing the reader what can, and what cannot, be achieved through technology. Throughout the book, references to lessons learned from past projects underline the arguments. Managers will find this book a valuable guide for implementing their own initiatives, while researchers and system designers will find plenty of ideas for future work.
Mapping Strategic Knowledge
This book outlines a number of different tools for mapping strategic knowledge, and thus making knowledge more accessible. Each section of the book provides a table which charts the chapters' main contents, key findings and implications for knowledge management. An annotated bibliography is provided at the end of the book as a resource for readers who may wish to become more familiar with relevant and existing literature in this area. Mapping Strategic Knowledge is relevant to those interested in knowledge management, primarily academics and consultants in the area of strategic management, but also academics in the area of organization theory.
Content Management: A Guide for Your Journey to Knowledge Management Best Practices
As one of the titles in the popular Passport to Success series from the American Productivity & Quality Center, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of content management. Based on research of leading organizations--and supported by examples of best practices--this book will guide readers through their own endeavors in managing content. In addition to practical content management initiatives, this guidebook details creating a business case, system planning and implementation, maintenance, information technology, and the lifecycles of content.
Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
Massive data sets pose a great challenge to many cross- disciplinary fields, including statistics. The high dimensionality and different data types and structures have now outstripped the capabilities of traditional statistical, graphical, and data visualization tools. Extracting useful information from such large data sets calls for novel approaches that meld concepts, tools, and techniques from diverse areas, such as computer science, statistics, artificial intelligence, and financial engineering. Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery brings together a stellar panel of experts to discuss and disseminate recent developments in data analysis techniques for data mining and knowledge extraction. This carefully edited collection provides a practical, multidisciplinary perspective on using statistical techniques in areas such as market segmentation, customer profiling, image and speech analysis, and fraud detection.
Strategic Intelligence
The usefulness of strategic intelligence goes beyond military settings, as it applies to improving the strategic decision-making process of any organization. This volume demonstrates how executives can best use internal and external information toward making better decisions. Divided into two major parts, the book first discusses the convergence of knowledge management (KM), business intelligence (BI) and competitive intelligence (CI) into what the author defines as strategic intelligence. The second part of the book describes case studies written recognized experts in the fields of KM, BI, and CI. The case studies include strategic scenarios at Motorola, AARP and Northrop Grumman.
What They Didn't Tell You About Knowledge Management
