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- 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 and innovation rather than on...
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- Richard Florida: Who's Your City
- Considering your next big career move? In exclusive excerpts from his new book – "Who's Your City?" – Richard Florida explains why that decision should be all about location, location, location.Three crucial economic ingredients – talent, innovation, and creativity – are not distributed evenly across today's global...
- Articles 2008-03-25
- 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
- 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. ...
- 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? ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Leading Clever People
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- Articles 2007-11-07
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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...
- White papers 2004-07-05
- 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...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- 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...
- White papers 2004-04-19
- 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...
- White papers 2005-02-07
- 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...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- 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...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- 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...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- 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....
- White papers 2001-07-01
- How to Win Offshoring Knowledge Workers: Booz
- Offshoring began with making things, such as T-shirts or laptops. Now, thinking jobs are going over seas, too. Since 2000, the number of offshored providers of intellectual services has doubled, according to a Booz & Co. study. India now accounts for half of all offshore knowledge services,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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- Basex Names The 'Knowledge Worker' Its Person-of-the-Year; Microsoft, Xerox and Factiva Join In Honoring The Knowledge Worker
- NEW YORK -- Basex, a leading research and consulting firm and the authority on the productivity of knowledge workers and how information technology impacts them, announced its Person-of-the-Year for 2004 - the 'Knowledge Worker.'
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Ten Guiding Principles For Knowledge Management In e-Government
- Knowledge management, popularly known by its acronym KM, as is known nowadays, is only few years old and is a distinct contribution of the private sector where the concept of knowledge as a "Competitive advantage of the firm" and "Knowledge capital" hold the sway. It is only that Knowledge Management...
- White papers 2007-01-11
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