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Assessment Strategies for Knowledge Organizations
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Assessment Strategies for Knowledge Organizations

Dean Testa|Johel Brown-Grant|Denise Bedford
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9781838676100
29 November 2019
£45.99
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9781838676070
29 November 2019
£33.99
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9781838676094
29 November 2019
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Assessment models and methods are taught in business schools, routinely published, conducted at all organizational levels and widely understood. Yet as organizations transform from an industrial to knowledge-based economy, assessments are rarely adapted to the new environment. Simply applying existing assessment models and methods to knowledge does not address the challenge. Knowledge assets, knowledge transactions and knowledge capabilities have unique properties and behaviors that may render traditional methods as unreliable or invalid.  

Expert authors Dean Testa, Johel Brown-Grant and Denise Bedford draw from their practical and theoretical experience in designing assessments for knowledge organizations, from observing successes and failures in a variety of organizations. Synthesizing their experience, their discussions here help knowledge management professionals gain a deeper understanding of maturity models and determine how best to create an assessment strategy for their organization.  

Offering an enhanced understanding of how to engage organisations in assessments, describing maturity factors and offering tools to communicate the results of these maturity assessments, this is an unmissable book for knowledge management professionals and researchers.

Part I: Assessment Fundamentals 1. Assessment for Organizations  2. Assessment as a Management Tool  3. Assessment Models and Methods  Part II: Knowledge Management Assessments - Moving Theory to Practice   4. Assessment Models and Methods for Knowledge Organizations  5. Assessing Knowledge Management Capabilities  6. Assessing Knowledge Capital Assets 7. Assessing Knowledge Capacity of the Business  Part III: Knowledge Management Assessments - Taking Action  8. Designing a Knowledge Assessment Strategy  9. Communicating Assessment Results  Part IV: Sustaining Knowledge Management Assessments  10. Getting Ready for Governance - Sustaining an Assessment Strategy  11. Assessment Cultures

    Dean Testa has more than 30 years' experience at a Fortune 250 company. Beginning his career as a mechanical engineer, he shifted to his true calling in 2010: knowledge management.
    Johel Brown-Grant is a knowledge management professional with extensive experience in enterprise learning, change management and business storytelling. A former Fulbright scholar, he holds graduate degrees in Communication and information and knowledge strategy. 
    Denise Bedford, PhD, is faculty at Georgetown University, a Visiting Scholar at University of Coventry, and Distinguished Practitioner, U.S. Department of State.