The Inquiring Organization

Author : Chun Wei Choo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782032
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquiring Organization written by Chun Wei Choo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Inquiring Organization, Chun Wei Choo examines how an organization's knowledge-acquisition and information-seeking leads to the construction of beliefs and the formations of epistemic practices

Author : Catherine Kikoski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313059217
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquiring Organization written by Catherine Kikoski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the context and tools to create knowledge via a proven process of inquiry, questions, and conversation. It introduces the theoretical background to explain why, as well as the practical hands-on skills and processes to demonstrate how, to surface tacit knowledge—that which we know but which we have not yet made explicit in conversation, e.g., background, education, and experience—and create new knowledge in collaboration with colleagues. In the information economy, knowledge is an asset and a currency. The creation of new knowledge, therefore, enhances an organization's position in the marketplace. How do we create new knowledge? We don't do it by learning what is already known. The learning organization is already passé. Instead, we do it by inquirinq, which is a method of bringing tacit knowledge to the forefront of awareneness. The inquiring organization surfaces tacit knowledge, which is what its employees bring to the table—their background, education, experience, character, and judgment—and transforms that knowledge into new, explicit knowledge that can be transferred from one employee to another through conversation. That is true knowledge creation, and this book provides the tools, skills, techniques, and processes for executives and professionals in any field to accomplish this task in today's fluid environment.

Author : Charles West Churchman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design Of Inquiring Systems written by Charles West Churchman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Forrest Courtney
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 159140309X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inquiring Organizations written by James Forrest Courtney and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment. While self-adaptive is an appropriate adjective for inquiring systems, they are critically different from self-adapting systems as they have evolved in the fields of computer science or artificial intelligence. Inquiring systems draw on epistemology to guide knowledge creation and organizational learning. As such, we can for the first time ever, begin to entertain the notion of support for "wise" decision-making. Readers of Inquiring Organizations: Moving from Knowledge Management to Wisdom will gain an appreciation for the role that epistemology can play in the design of the next generation of knowledge management systems: systems that focus on supporting wise decision-making processes.

Author : Catherine Kikoski
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9781567204902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquiring Organization written by Catherine Kikoski and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the context and tools to create knowledge via a proven process of inquiry, questions, and conversation. It introduces the theoretical background to explain why, as well as the practical hands-on skills and processes to demonstrate how, to surface tacit knowledge—that which we know but which we have not yet made explicit in conversation, e.g., background, education, and experience—and create new knowledge in collaboration with colleagues. In the information economy, knowledge is an asset and a currency. The creation of new knowledge, therefore, enhances an organization's position in the marketplace. How do we create new knowledge? We don't do it by learning what is already known. The learning organization is already passé. Instead, we do it by inquirinq, which is a method of bringing tacit knowledge to the forefront of awareneness. The inquiring organization surfaces tacit knowledge, which is what its employees bring to the table—their background, education, experience, character, and judgment—and transforms that knowledge into new, explicit knowledge that can be transferred from one employee to another through conversation. That is true knowledge creation, and this book provides the tools, skills, techniques, and processes for executives and professionals in any field to accomplish this task in today's fluid environment.

Author : William R. Torbert
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157675264X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action Inquiry written by William R. Torbert and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: oAction inquiryo is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general. Bill Torbert and Associates lead you through more and more sophisticated oaction-logicso-strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it-until you are able to practice action inquiry continually. Speaking to everyone from new managers to CEOs to world leaders, real-life stories of leadership and organizational transformations show how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability.

Author : Chun Wei Choo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowing Organization written by Chun Wei Choo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links the areas of organizational behaviour and information management. This book brings together research in organizational theory and information science in a general framework for understanding how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities.

Author : Schwartz, David
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591405742
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management written by Schwartz, David and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This encyclopedia is a research reference work documenting the past, present, and possible future directions of knowledge management"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Edgar H. Schein
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609949838
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humble Inquiry written by Edgar H. Schein and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people—especially those who report to us—we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes, to develop agility and flexibility, we need to practice Humble Inquiry. Ed Schein defines Humble Inquiry as “the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.” In this seminal work, Schein contrasts Humble Inquiry with other kinds of inquiry, shows the benefits Humble Inquiry provides in many different settings, and offers advice on overcoming the cultural, organizational, and psychological barriers that keep us from practicing it.

Author : Chun Wei Choo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401594058
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Web Work written by Chun Wei Choo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together three great motifs of the network society: the seeking and using of information by individuals and groups; the creation and application of knowledge in organizations; and the fundamental transformation of these activities as they are enacted on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Of the three, the study of how individuals and groups seek information probably has the longest history, beginning with the early "information needs and uses" studies soon after the Second World War. The study of organizations as knowledge-based social systems is much more recent, and really gained momentum only within the last decade or so. The study of the World Wide Web as information and communication media is younger still, but has generated tremendous excitement, partly because it has the potential to reconfigure the ways in which people seek information and use knowledge, and partly because it offers new methods of analyzing and measuring how in fact such information and knowledge work gets done. As research endeavors, these streams overlap and share conceptual constructs, perspectives, and methods of analysis. Although these overlaps and shared concerns are sometimes apparent in the published research, there have been few attempts to connect these ideas explicitly and identify cross-disciplinary themes. This book is an attempt to fill this void. The three authors of this book possess contrasting backgrounds and thus adopt complementary vantage points to observe information seeking and knowledge work.