Knowledge Management as a Strategic Asset

An Integrated, Historical Approach

Jon-Arild Johannessen

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Since it was established as a discipline in 1991, knowledge management has contributed significantly to our understanding of how firms can achieve competitive advantage. To build a foundation for competitive advantage, however, a company must first consider knowledge management as a strategic asset. It must truly grasp how knowledge management can be utilized to build the future of the company.

Here Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges. Through a series of case studies, Johannessen delves into the relations between knowledge management, organizational learning, innovation, and internal training in order to show how they can help firms gain sustainable competitive advantage. Using systemic thinking, a new way of looking at knowledge management, Johannessen focuses on how organizations can use their data to think about how to create their own futures rather than simply to adapt to what others have created—how they can go beyond red ocean and even blue ocean theories in order to create their own oceans of possibility.

For the new perspective it offers on the biggest contemporary strategic challenges in business, Knowledge Management as a Strategic Asset is essential reading for managers, researchers, and anyone interested in the cutting edge of strategic thinking.

FOREWORD CHAPTER 1. A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 2. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION: ASPECT OF A THEORY CHAPTER 3. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL TRAINING CHAPTER 4. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CHAPTER 5. EPILOGUE

This book examines knowledge management as a strategic asset in terms of innovation, internal training, and organizational learning, and argues that social mechanisms among individuals and companies initiate and sustain processes related to innovation in organizations. It discusses the background and historical aspects of knowledge management and a conceptual model that examines processes and social mechanisms promoting innovation in organizations; the connection between norms specific to the company, the knowledge bases of the company, and innovation; the role of knowledge and competence in creating sustainable competitive advantages, the need for a strategic approach to competence development, the role of training in meeting the strategic competence priorities of companies, and a model for delivering training in the workplace; and the relationship between organizational learning and knowledge management.
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Jon-Arild Johannessen is a Professor (full) at Kristiania University College and Nord University, Norway, where he specializes in knowledge management and innovation.