Organizational Learning: How Companies and Institutions Manage and Apply Knowledge

by Jerry L. Wellman

To survive in any economic climate, organizations must manage what they know and adapt this knowledge to rapidly changing environments. Organizational Learning demonstrates that companies can reap greater awards in productivity, speed, and profitability by developing the four categories of information management: a company's "Culture" that institutionalizes knowledge; the "Old Pros" with organizational knowledge born of experience; "Archives" that serves as the institution's internal repository for knowledge; and the "Processes" that impose prior learning and discipline on new generations of employees. Drawing on decades of first-hand experience, Jerry Wellman lays an important foundation for those interested in the ways that information is captured and utilized.

215 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2009

Reviews

[Carlin Doeksen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read the Closing. Reference the rest.

I appreciate most the comparison between the four constructs of organizational knowledge and four regions of the human brain (chapter 2). This is a very interesting way of looking at "how organizations remember what they know."