A "neo-industrial" economy is emerging, where the use of projects and temporary organisations are increasingly used in industry. It examines this phenomenon and develops a new theory of the "project-intensive economy

IBM has gone from a company with 60 billion in unprofitable revenue to a profitable 85 billion enterprise. IBM Global Services draws most of its revenue from helping businesses to do successfully what IBM has done: transform themselves. This book describes the practices that allowed IBM to...

`Philippe Baumard has observed that strategic success seems to lie more in top managers' ability to use tacit knowledge than in their gaining or updating explicit knowledge' - William H Starbuck, New York University. `This important new book effectively illustrates how, in conditions of...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A theoretical framework of individual learning -- 3 The hallways of learning* -- 4 The organizational learning cycle -- 5 A theoretical framework for organizational learning -- 6 Infrastructure for organizational learning* -- 7...

The intellectual assets of a corporation can be leveraged to create a knowledge organization and this book details the forces of change which companies must respond to, and describes the techniques used to restructure organizations