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1. Introduction
2. Talk overview
3. Changing environment of business
4. Innovation and the knowledge economy
5. What is innovation?
6. Linear view of innovation
7. Shifting view of innovation
8. Alternative view of innovation: enterprise system
9. Understanding knowledge
10. Explicit, implicit and tacit knowledge
11. Managing knowledge for innovation (1)
12. Communities of practice at Rio Tinto
13. Managing knowledge for innovation (2)
14. Applying understanding innovation & knowledge
15. Innovation challenges
16. Knowledge integration (1)
17. Knowledge integration - distributed
18. Knowledge integration - ambiguity
19. Knowledge integration - contested
20. Knowledge integration (2)
21. Different levels of knowledge integration
22. Example: Cataract project
23. Knowledge boundaries overcome
24. Transfer of new 'best practice'
25. Conclusions

Topics Covered

• Knowledge and Innovation
• Changing context of work
• The knowledge economy and knowledge-intensive work
• Understanding innovation
• Traditional linear view to interactive or networked view of innovation
• Understanding knowledge
• Explicit vs. tacit knowledge
• Exploitation and exploration
• Characteristics of knowledge as distributed, ambiguous and contested
• Managing knowledge for innovation
• Knowledge management systems and communities of practice

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Series:

• Strategic Issues in Information Technology

Categories:

• Technology & Operations

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Publication History

• Published on March 13, 2011