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The Age of Social Transformation by Peter Drucker
Essay, 33 pages.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/ecbig/soctrans.htm
The underlying theme of this essay is knowledge
management. In typical Drucker style the essay explores the
development of knowledge from an historical perspective, integrates
this into what is happening in the present and relates this to future
trends. The essay does not deal with the world of business alone.
It is far reaching as it explores the wider social milieu and
provides insights into some of the key factors that face national and
local communities at this time. A must read for those who wish to be
challenged about the many social transformations that we are facing
as we enter the twenty first century.
Prophet
sharing with Peter Drucker
Essay, 9 pages
www.redherring.com.industries/2001/0126/ind-mag-91-drucker012601.html
The essay provides some brief insights into a
number of areas, employee pay incentives, the health care system and
how anti globalisation protestors continue to use Victorian era Marxist
arguments to underpin their objections to the globalisation
phenomenon. This is an insightful read.
Knowledge
Management – Peter Drucker’s Chronicle of the Shift to Knowledge Work
A two page overview of key knowledge management
principles
Home.att.net/~nickols/chronicle.htm
This two page overview provides some key note
quotes from Drucker’s books beginning with The Practice of
Management published in 1954 to Management Challenges for the
21st Century that was written in 1999 – a brief but
thought provoking read.
Survey:
The Near Future (Part 1 and Part 11), Tools and Resources for
Financial Executives
Two major articles.
Part 1: www.cfo.com/Article?article=5641
Part 11: www.cfo.com/printarticle/0,5317,5642|,00
There are two
articles in this set, The Near Future (Part 1), The Next Society
and The Near Future (Part 11), Will the Corporation Survive?
As is typical of Drucker these two articles present a range of ideas
and insights that cannot be described in a paragraph. The key
message for financial and accounting executives is that the present
operational practices and accounting standards of corporate
governance are obsolete. Accounting standards reside in an
industrial era perception of financial accountability in which the
corporation was seen as seen separate from the changing environments
in which it operated. These standards are no longer viable. New
accounting standards require businesses to manage the new capital:
the knowledge of persons within businesses and the persons in the
environments in which they operate. New accounting standards that
relate to changes in knowledge management thinking in changing
business environments are required – a must read.
Knowledge
Management for Organizational White-Waters: An Ecological Framework
A six page essay by Yogesh Malhotra who manages
the Brint web page. This site is recognized as the preeminent
knowledge management page on the web.
Why Knowledge Management Systems Fail? Enablers
and Constraints of Knowledge Management in Human Enterprises.
A 20 page article by Yogesh Malhotra ph.D
www.brint.org/WhyKMSFail.htm
Malhotra initially notes in this article that the
normal view of knowledge processes and intelligence in organisations
is that: 1) unconventional means of knowledge/intelligence
development have greater risks than conventional means, 2) the impact
of human knowledge and technology inputs can be predicted, 3) high
tech inputs are better than low tech inputs for organizational
knowledge development 4) human inputs are inferior to technology, 5
knowledge inputs are more important that execution strategy. He then
debunks each of these myths of knowledge management.
Knowledge
Management, Knowledge Organizations & Knowledge Workers: A View
from the Front Lines
An interview with Yogesh Malhotra from Brint.com
(Knowledge Management Website)
www.brint.com/interview/maeil.htm
This interview is concerned with developing
insights into the relationship between technology and human behavior
in knowledge management. The basic idea that is discussed in the
interview is that the development of knowledge in a business requires
the interlinking of technical data and information systems with human
behavior. In the ‘old’ world of business there was a disconnection
between people and the technology of information. The ‘new’ world of
business requires that this be mended.
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