Increasingly, it appears that for many of us and our companies, our core competence focuses around knowing certain things and being able to use this knowledge better than others. Especially with all the publicity about outsourcing and offshoring to developing countries that have many smart, educated people willing to perform skilled tasks at much lower wages. The authors are therefore correct in asserting that many companies are fundamentally knowledge-based, or at least they should be. It is for the latter companies that the book may prove more useful. That is, you think your company should move in this direction, but, for whatever reason, that has not successfully happened. In this case, you may want to at least consider this book. It can be applied to a company in any field. There is no restriction to an Information Technology context. Creating Knowledge Based Organizations Brings Together High Quality Concepts And Techniques Closely Related To Organizational Learning, Knowledge Workers, Intellectual Capital, And Knowledge Management. It Includes The Methodologies, Systems And Approaches That Are Needed To Create And Manage Knowledge Based Organizations.--jacket. Section I: Knowledge Based Organization -- An Overview Of Knowledge Management / Jatinder N.d. Gupta ... [et Al.] -- Information Technology Assessment For Knowledge Management / Sushil K. Sharma -- Section Ii: Evolving Electronic Markets -- Intelligent Enterprise Integration: Emarketplace Model / Hamada H. Ghenniwa ... [et Al.] -- Financial Markets In The Internet Age / Ross A. Lumley -- Ability Of The Actor Network Theory (ant) To Model And Interpret An Electronic Market / Murat Baygeldi, Steve Smithson -- An Explanatory Approach To The Asp Industry Evolution Where It Services Move From P-service To E-service / Dohoon Kim -- Section Iii: Knowledge Management -- Management Of Knowldge In New Product Development In Portuguese Higher Education / Maria Manuel Mendes ... [et Al.] -- An Interactive System For The Collection And Utilization Of Both Tacit And Explicit Knowledge / Karen Neville, Philip Powell -- Inducing Enterprise Knowledge Flows / Mark Nissen -- Developing And Maintaining Knowledge Management Systems For Dynamic, Complex Domains / Lisa J. Burnell ... [et Al.] -- Virtual Communities As Role Models For Organizational Knowledge Management / Bonnie Rubenstein Montano -- Section Iv: Learning Organizations -- Learning Maturity: Incorporating Technological Influences In Individual And Organizational Learning Theory / Gary F. Templeton -- An Investigation To An Enabling Role Of Knowledge Management Between Learning Organization And Organizational Learning / Juin-cherng Lu, Chia-wen Tsai -- Section V: Future Organizations -- 21st Century Organizations And The Basis For Achieving Optimal Cross-functional Integration In New Product Development / J. Daniel Sherman -- Fractal Approach To Managing Intelligent Enterpises / Kwangyeol Ryu, Mooyoung Jung. [edited By] Jatinder N.d. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Annotation Though organizations store huge volumes of data in their computerized systems and data warehouses, the process of converting this data into organizational knowledge still remains somewhat of a mystery to the broader business community. Creating Knowledge Based Organizations brings together high quality concepts and techniques closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital, and knowledge management. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches that are needed to create and manage knowledge based organizations Annotation Creating Knowledge Based Organizations brings together high quality concepts closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital, virtual teams and will include the methodologies, systems and approaches needed to create and manager knowledge-based organizations of the 21st Century This text brings together high-quality concepts closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital and virtual teams. It includes the methodologies, systems and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge-based organizations in the 21st century This text brings together essays on organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital and virtual teams. It includes the methodologies, systems and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge-based organizations in the 21st century. One of the key factors that distinguishes the intelligent business enterprise of the 21st century is the emphasis on knowledge and information.