Managing knowledge assets, creativity and innovation

• Main Author: Leonard, A. Dorthy.
• Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2011.
• Subjects: Technological innovations > Management.; Technology transfer.; Knowledge management.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book pulls together for the first time, works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A. Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the award-winning article on Core Capabi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Managing technology and new product development
• 2. Core capabilities and core rigidities : a paradox in managing new product development / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 3. How to integrate work and deepen expertise / Dorothy A. Leonard ... [et al.]
• 4. Importing and absorbing technological knowledge from outside of the firm / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 5. Alliance clusters in multimedia : safety net or entanglement? / Benjamin Gomes-Cassares and Dorothy A. Leonard
• 6. Using mentoring and storytelling to transfer knowledge in the workplace / Walter C. Swap ... [et al.]
• 7. Deep smarts / Dorothy A. Leonard and Walter Swap
• 8. Building deep smarts through experience / Dorothy A. Leonard and Walter Swap
• 9. Expertise / Dorothy A. Leonard and Walter Swap
• 10. Experts as negative opinion leaders in the diffusion of a technological innovation / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 11. Creative abrasion / Dorothy A. Leonard and Walter Swap
• 12. Putting your company's whole brain to work / Dorothy A. Leonard and Susan Straus
• 13. The role of tacit knowledge in group innovation / Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper
• 14. Virtual teams : using communications technology to manage geographically dispersed development groups / Dorothy A. Leonard ... [et al.]
• 15. Market research in product development / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 16. Spark innovation through empathic design / Dorothy A. Leonard and Jeffery Rayport
• 17. Designing the psychological environment / Dorothy A. Leonard and Walter Swap
• 18. The diffusion and implementation of innovations
• 19. Implementation as mutual adaptation of technology and organization / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 20. Implementing new production technologies : exercises in corporate learning / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 21. Managerial influence in the implementation of a new technology / Dorothy A. Leonard and Isabelle Deschamps
• 22. Developer-user interaction and user satisfaction in internal technology transfer / Dorothy A. Leonard and Deepak K. Sinha
• 23. Diffusing innovations when the users are not the choosers : the case of dentists / Dorothy A. Leonard
• 24. Innovation as a knowledge generation and transfer process / Dorothy A. Leonard.