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Knowledge Worker: an employee who deals in information, ideas, and expertise. Knowledge workers are products of the so-called information age, in which the emphasis is on creativity...; Knowledge Worker definition on BNET »

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Image Gallery: "Who's Your City": Richard Florida maps out the biggest megaregions, multi-city economic centers, and concentrations of workers based on personality type in these maps from his latest book, "Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life." by BNET Editorial; Tags: Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Richard Florida, Books, Creative Class, City, Knowledge Worker; Image galleries 2008-03-24
Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession: In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book “Who’s Your City?” matters to workers during a recession and how a business's location affects not only the talent pool, but also its ability to innovate. ...; Tags: Florida, NorCal, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Paul Kaihla, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Richard Florida, Books, Creative Class, City, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions, Recession, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics; Articles 2008-03-20
Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions: These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...; Tags: Richard Florida, Chicago, Boston, biotechnology, talent, commercial real estate, finance, America, New York, job, supply chain, transportation, logistics, venture capital, banking, manufacturing, brand, performance, computer, network; Articles 2008-03-19
Who's Your City?: What Is a Megaregion?: Forget the best cities to work in. Richard Florida envisions a world in which megaregions -- composed of several cities -- represent a new and powerful economic unit. Adapted from Florida's new book Who's Your City? Today, megaregions range in size from 10...; Tags: City, Population, Globalization, Workforce Management, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Richard Florida, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Books, Creative Class, Knowledge Worker, Urban Communities, Economic Conditions; Articles 2008-03-19
Economists Urge Managers to 'Pack Them In': Does where you sit in the office affect anything besides what gossip you hear? The always interesting Marginal Revolution blog, points today to a report that suggests in fact it does. According to the NY Times, the economists looked at Google's in-house prediction market. to try to find common...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Jessica Stillman, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2008-01-07

Leading Clever People: The Idea in Brief ...; Tags: Strategy, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, knowledge, talent, environment; Articles 2007-11-07
Rising Above the Crowd: How Top-Performing Knowledge Workers Distinguish Themselves: Few organizations know how to maximize knowledge worker performance to achieve optimum business results, however. Most executives focus exclusively on attracting and retaining talented individuals; few bother to ask how they can best support and enhance the performance of the knowledge workers they already employ. To determine how organizations can...; Tags: Performance management, Accenture Ltd., knowledge worker, performance; White papers 2005-05-01
The Impact Of Mobile And Wireless Technology On Knowledge Workers: Organisations continue to be disappointed at the difference that ICT has made to knowledge worker productivity. This paper reports an exploratory study of the extent to which emerging mobile and wireless ICT can support the mobile nature of the knowledge worker's job, including the impact that these technologies can have...; Tags: Mobile, Knowledge Worker, Wireless Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing; White papers 2005-04-27
Knowledge Work and New Organisational Forms: The New HRM Challenge: This paper carefully considers the impact of external pressures (client demands and influences) and internal pressures (employment mode of core knowledge workers, employee expectations, knowledge ownership) on the management of knowledge workers. This done by paying attention to the nature of the network within which the firm operates and considering...; Tags: Strategy, knowledge worker, knowledge, HRM, Human Resources, network; White papers 2005-02-07
Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity And Organisational Knowledge: Improving the productivity of knowledge workers is one of the most important challenges for companies that face the transition from the industrial economy to an economy based on information and knowledge. This paper briefly explores the failure of traditional knowledge management to address the problem of knowledge worker productivity and...; Tags: Knowledge Worker, Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-07-05
Quantifying and Fostering Organizational Effectiveness: While measuring knowledge worker productivity and how it contributes to an organization's overall effectiveness is difficult, it is not impossible. The rewards of doing so are twofold. Measurement allows for management, which can help an organization guide and direct its valuable human capital toward the goals it has identified. In...; Tags: Herman Miller Inc., knowledge worker, human capital; White papers 2004-04-19
Putting It All Together Again: From the executive summary: ‘Knowledge work is hard to measure. Although, not all knowledge workers are alike, there is no standard classification or segmentation scheme for them. There are many productivity tools for knowledge workers, but they do not connect well with each other. The organizational support for knowledge work...; Tags: International Data Group, knowledge worker, knowledge, Human Resources; White papers 2003-10-01
Knowledge Work Is Hard: Article talks about knowledge worker’s productivity. As to measure, no body bother about it, there are many productivity tools for knowledge worker, but they do not connect well with each other. This paper gives the description of s; Tags: International Data Group, knowledge worker, knowledge; White papers 2003-10-01
Increasing The Firm's Strategic IQ: In industries where change is constant and revolutionary, key managers and knowledge workers need to learn to think more and more like a CEO and to be included in a dynamic strategic planning process. By increasing the strategic IQ of these knowledge workers, the firm can respond more rapidly than...; Tags: Strategy, Pepperdine University, knowledge worker, Strategic Planning, industry; White papers 2003-01-01
Creative Knowledge Environments in the Innovation System: The aim of the research project reported in this paper is to increase the understanding for factors that are crucial for creative working processes and innovative results in knowledge organizations. Its objective is to make a contribution to the construction of a model, which describes how to increase creativity with...; Tags: Strategy, knowledge worker, knowledge, team; White papers 2002-02-01
The Conductor-less Orchestra: Tapping into the unique skills of knowledge workers requires leaders to adopt new ways of thinking and to apply new models of organization to the workplace. An experts views are your structures should be very loose and very flexible: less hierarchy, more opportunity for people to play many different roles....; Tags: knowledge worker, workplace, leader, team, industry; White papers 2001-07-01
Proving We're Productive: Article focuses on a statement : “After years of talk about technology improving the productivity of knowledge workers, recent evidence suggests that it's true.” What has been difficult, however, is measuring the impact of IT on business performance. Until very recently, claims regarding the value of technology have been long...; Tags: Strategy, Line56 Media, knowledge worker, economist, knowledge, competitive advantage, decision-making, Intranet, accounting, collaboration, worker, tool, information technology; White papers 2000-07-01

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To Boost Productivity of Knowledge Workers: The paper focuses on the need to improve knowledge-worker productivity. The upstream oil and gas industry, and more specifically the domain of prospect generation, appraisal, and field development, remain under constant pressure to improve performance measures and knowledge-worker productivity. Given declining average field sizes, decreasing well productivities, escalating depletion rates,...; Tags: appraisal, industry, performance; White papers 2003-11-01
Thoughts On Empowerment: Modern business era is rightfully known as the ‘knowledge-age.’ Today’s professional is knowledge professional. He/she knows the art of leveraging the power of information to his/her advantage. The knowledge professional works best in an environment that is empowerment-driven. Such environment allows the professional to make decisions regarding work with minimum...; Tags: worker, knowledge, environment; White papers 2003-01-01
What Do You Know?: The knowledge worker and the knowledge environment today require synergy and collaboration more than ever before. It is immeasurable, intangible and yet clearly invaluable. The collective knowledge that is the sum of what every employee in a company knows, and what other information that company has accumulated over the years,...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, knowledge, collaboration; White papers 2001-03-01