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Critical Capabilities and Competencies for Knowledge Organizations
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Critical Capabilities and Competencies for Knowledge Organizations

Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro|Denise Bedford|Margo Thomas|Susan Wakabayashi
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9781789737707
01 November 2019
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Failed knowledge management projects have one element in common: they fail to focus on the organization's core business functions and instead choose functions that are easy or might produce 'low-hanging fruit'. As a result, often even successful knowledge management projects add little value to the organization as they fail to address the pain points of the heart of the business. 

So how can knowledge management professionals position themselves for greatest success? In this practical guide, expert authors Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Denise Bedford, Margo Thomas, and Susan Wakabayashi demonstrate how professionals can map knowledge resources to support business critical capabilities, and increase the impact of knowledge management projects. They also explain how to avoid investing in resources with low value, and how to develop strategies and action plans for different types of resources.  

Providing practical guidance for professionals, and including mini-case studies of successes and failures, this is an essential book for any knowledge management professional, researcher or student.

Part I: The New World of Work and Workers 1. The Changing Landscape of Work  2. Building Knowledge Capacity into Organizations  3. Fundamentals of Knowledge Capital  4. From Knowledge Capacity to Knowledge Capabilities  Part II: Managing Organizational Capabilities  5. Knowledge Capabilities - Roles, Responsibilities, Placement  6. Revisiting Competence and Competencies  7. Competence, Proficiency and Performance  Part III: Managing Individual Capabilities  8. Human Capital Competence and Proficiency Models  9. Structural Capital Competence and Proficiency Models  10. Relational Capital Competence and Proficiency Models  Part IV: Aligning Strategies - Business, Knowledge and Human Resources   11. Strategic Alignment - Business, Knowledge and Human Resource Management  12. Implications for Human Resource Management Roles and Responsibilities   Appendix A. Pulling it all Together

    Alexeis Garcia-Perez is an Associate Professor at Coventry University Business School (UK) and a Visiting Research Scholar at Georgetown University (USA). 
    Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro is a full professor at the Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). He also serves as Associate Editor and Regional Editorial for several flagship journals including Knowledge and Process Management and Journal of Knowledge Management.  
    Denise Bedford is faculty at Georgetown University, a Visiting Scholar at University of Coventry, and Distinguished Practitioner, U.S. Department of State. 
    Margo Thomas is the Founder and President of the Women's Economic Imperative, while also holding fellowships at Chatham House and the Global Solutions Initiative, and is a former World Bank senior official.
    Susan Wakabayashi is a client service leader with 20 years' experience helping organizations align strategies with tactical plans and solve operational challenges, including fortune 100 companies, start-ups, non-profits, multi-laterals, government agencies and associations.