Kai Romhardt

Managing Knowledge is an extensive and eminently readable overview of the most important ideas, tools and current applications of knowledge management. The authors rely on an innovative 'building block' approach and provide a detailed description of the most important knowledge processes in organizations. "We are experiencing a paradigm shift from an industrial age to a service/knowledge age. We are all looking for new answers that will give meaning and purpose to our efforts, and make sense of knowledge processes. This book is an excellent tool: it is easy to read and contains practical examples which help us to deal with the issues. I enjoyed reading it." Heinz Fischer, Vice-President (Personnel), Deutsche Bank "Knowledge of customer needs, markets, patents, products and processes is a key strategic resource in today's business world. The use of this resource, particularly in larger companies, is becoming a matter of survival in highly competitive and innovation-driven markets. The practical approach to knowledge management offered by Gilbert Probst, Steffen Raub and Kai Romhardt should prove an extremely useful tool." Heinrich v. Pierer, President and CEO, Siemens AG "In this book Professor Pobst and his colleagues show in a great way how to systematize and work on increasing the efficiency of strategic knowledge management." Leif Edvinsson, Director, Intellectual Capital, Skandia "Knowledge will dominate our entire 21st century social environment. Organizations will rapidly divide into those that know and those that don't. Leaders of tomorrow must make better use than they have done in the past of what knowledge their employees hold. This book will show you how." Bob Bishop, Chairman, Silicon Graphics World Trade Corporation

There is no such thing as "Buddhist Capitalism," but pithy German business analyst Kai Romhardt, the founder of the International Network for Mindful Business, argues that a no-nonsense Zen approach to our economic realities can transform everything. Is real, lasting satisfaction possible within our current financial system? If you're skeptical, business analyst and Zen practitioner Kai Romhardt proposes a minimalist, awareness-based strategy that totally reconfigures our core economic relationships: work, consumption, and money. Too often, we think of the economy as something outside of us, as beyond the scope of our individual choices. We're unhappy with how things are going, with unthinking growth that polarizes our world and condenses wealth at the top, but we don't know what to do. Romhardt argues that individuals who wield a sharp Buddhist mindset can, in fact, create change through personal decisions: when we can see in to society, and in to our constructs, we become empowered to choose deeply real and purposeful lives.

Die Wissensumwelt von Unternehmen wird dynamischer, Produkte und Prozesse werden wissensintensiver. Umso wichtiger ist der effiziente unternehmensinterne Umgang mit Wissen. Dieses Standardwerk zum Thema Wissensmanagement - nun bereits in der 7., überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage - bietet einen Überblick über Methoden und Konzepte und schildert an Fallbeispielen aus namhaften Unternehmen, wie der sinnvolle und innovative Einsatz von Wissen den Vorsprung von Spitzenunternehmen sichert. Die Autoren vermitteln das praktische Rüstzeug, mit dem sich betriebliches Wissen systematisieren, pflegen, verteilen und effizient nutzen lässt. Die 7. Auflage bietet viele aktuelle Zahlen, neue Fallbeispiele und diskutiert die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse.

Kai Romhardt präsentiert zentrale Instrumente des Wissensmanagements und überprüft ihre Wirkungsspektren anhand ausgewählter Unternehmen. Der Autor modelliert Interventionsquadranten des Wissensmanagements und weist über diese einen kontext- und situationssensitiven Weg der Intervention in organisatorisches Wissen. Grundlage ist das vom Autor wesentlich mitentwickelte und bereits breit rezipierte Modell der Bausteine des Wissensmanagements.