book summary:
Knowledge management is a process that helps organizations to identify, select, organize and disseminate important knowledge and skills that are considered a kind of strategic intellectual capital and organizational memory and that do not normally exist in an organized manner and bring it to its place of use. In this way, they become a learning organization. Surveys show that in the absence of a specific strategy and strategic planning for knowledge management, organizations will not achieve the desired result despite spending on this issue. In this regard, the present book examines the concepts, models and applications of strategic management of organizational knowledge in the form of seven chapters and presents several case studies.
The audience of this book is managers, specialists and consultants in the field of organizational knowledge management, and this book can be used as a teaching resource for professors and graduate students in the fields where strategic knowledge management is taught.
book introduction:
This book discusses the strategic management of organizational knowledge in the form of seven chapters. In the first chapter, an attempt has been made to discuss the philosophical foundations of knowledge management, including the foundations of epistemology, the foundations of ontology, and the foundations of anthropology, and to explain the main dimensions of each of these foundations at the general level of science. After familiarizing with the topics of this chapter, the readers of the book will have the ability to adapt and evaluate the theories and models of strategic management of organizational knowledge that are discussed in the next chapters of the book with the philosophical foundations of knowledge management from the perspective of Islam, and in addition to the possibility of generating knowledge Bumi provides the context of applying the topics in the local conditions of Iranian Islamic organizations.
In the second chapter, some of the different categories available for knowledge management strategies have been investigated. Human-oriented and system-oriented strategies have been described as a frequent category and their characteristics and effects on different dimensions of the organization have been examined. Also, the centralized and decentralized strategies of knowledge management have been explained, and then the dynamic strategy of knowledge management, its origin, its characteristics and its difference with previous approaches have been introduced.
In the third chapter of the book, an attempt has been made to introduce the frameworks, models and methodologies related to the knowledge management strategy and explain how to use each of the models in different organizations according to the conditions of each organization. In the fourth chapter, different patterns of knowledge strategy in organizations are presented and how to identify and utilize the organization's knowledge resources is explained. In the fifth chapter, an attempt has been made to describe how to plan strategically and develop a strategic knowledge management document in organizations and companies, and develop a knowledge management strategy map in order to show the link with business strategy.
In the sixth chapter of the book, an attempt has been made to explain how to implement the knowledge management strategy. Therefore, based on the experiences of the authors of the book, the challenges and considerations of implementing the strategic plan of knowledge management in different fields have been introduced. Then, how to structure the four capabilities of knowledge management, including people, processes, technologies, and governance, has been explained. In the seventh and final chapter, an attempt has been made to draw a comprehensive knowledge in the strategic evaluation of knowledge management by explaining the strategy map and its aspects in the organization. Also, the use of balanced scorecard in evaluating knowledge management performance with new social responsibility approaches has been discussed. In the end, an attempt has been made to explain the barriers to strategy implementation in organizations and how to face them based on existing experiences.
The audience of this book includes managers, specialists and consultants in the field of knowledge management, as well as those interested in this topic who want to follow the relevant topics at a more advanced level. This book can also be used as a textbook for graduate students in fields where knowledge management is taught, especially information technology management fields at the master's and PhD level, as well as other fields where this topic is The format of related courses are taught in them, such as all trends in management, industrial engineering, information technology engineering, information science, and epistemology.
In the end, we request all managers, professors, students and educated researchers to send their corrective and supplementary opinions regarding the contents of this book to the authors via e-mail ckm@ihu.ac.ir.
Dr. Ruholah Tolaei (Professor of Imam Hossein University, peace be upon him)
Dr. Amina Khadivar (Professor of Al-Zahra University (may God bless him and grant him peace)
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