Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Marc Notes: Includes bibl. ref. & index; Avail. in Paper. Publisher Marketing: Strategic Knowledge Management Technology applies the knowledge-based view of the firm, which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies stages of growth model for knowledge management technology, where firms develop from the person-to-tools strategy, via the person-to-person strategy and the person-to-documents strategy, to the person-to-systems strategy. The case of law firms is extensively explored. IS/IT strategy for knowledge management is developed within the framework of the Y model. Contributor Bio:  Gottschalk, Petter Dr Geoff Dean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice Studies in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He specialises in police investigative thinking and knowledge management, forensic and investigative psychology, criminal/offender profiling, justice andhuman rights, terrorism and security. He is registered as an international expert with EUROPOL at the Knowledge Management Centre, The Hague in the Netherlands and consults widely with various police services, institutes, and universities in Asia, Europe and North America. Dr. Dean is the programmanager and teaching coordinator for a joint corporate program on 'International Policing' as a major course component for the Bachelor of Justice Degree for the Singapore Police Force. He is also a former police trainer. Dr Petter Gottschalk is professor of knowledge management at the NorwegianSchool of Management in Oslo, Norway. He specialises in knowledge work, management of knowledge workers, management of police investigations, leadership roles, knowledge strategies, value configurations, resource-based strategy and knowledge management systems. He is teaching at Nanyang Universityin Singapore, Fudan University in Shanghai and Arab Academy in Egypt. Prior to this, Dr. Gottschalk had several executive positions in business and public administration.