The Knowledge Entrepreneur: How Your Business Can Create, Manage and Profit from Intellectual Capital

The Knowledge Entrepreneur: How Your Business Can Create, Manage and Profit from Intellectual Capital

by Colin Coulson - Thomas (Author)

Synopsis

In many companies knowledge management has focused almost exclusively upon the packaging of existing knowledge. This book is designed to help readers boost revenues and profit by significantly improving the performance of existing activities and also creating new offerings that generate additional income. It shows how practical knowledge-based job-support tools can transform work group productivity, and reveals the enormous scope for addressing contemporary problems such as information overload with imaginative responses.Additional information includes: a list of possible commercial ventures; detailed checklists that can be used for identifying and analysing opportunities for knowledge entrepreneurship; and exercises for assessing entrepreneurial potential and scoping possible products and services. The free CD-ROM packaged with the book gives examples of particular knowledge-based job support tools that have dramatically improved desired results in crucial areas such as winning more business.

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Format: CD-ROM
Pages: 240
Edition: Har/Cdr
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
Published: 03 Oct 2003

ISBN 10: 0749439467
ISBN 13: 9780749439460
Book Overview: In many companies, knowledge management has focused almost exclusively upon the packaging of existing knowledge. Knowledge Entepenear is designed to help readers boost revenues and profit by significantly improving the performance of existing activities and also creating new offerings that generate income.

Author Bio
Colin Coulson-Thomas was educated at the London School of Economics and at the universities of Aston, Chicago and Southern California. He is Professor of Competitiveness at Luton Business School, Luton University and the National Centre for Competitiveness. He is also Visiting Professor at the Management Development Institute in Delhi. He holds a portfolio of directorships and is Chairman of Adaptation Ltd, ASK Europe plc, Cotoco Ltd and Policy Publications. A counsellor on business development and corporate direction, transformation and learning, he has helped over 50 boards to improve board and corporate performance. Colin is also Chairman of the judges for the e-Business Innovations Awards. He is the author or co-author of over 30 books and reports.