Knowledge management and risk strategies

"This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifespan will have profound impact on companies' employment policies, and employees' strategies for gaining knowledge." "How to manage knowledge selection, including personnel management, will be the key to survival for companies, when corporate competency shifts from stable business contacts to the quality of their offers, and when the value of knowledge, which is the foundation of products and services, is becoming more and more short-lived. Work-sharing and human resource derivatives are thus proposed as new concepts in order to deal with knowledge selection risk."--BOOK JACKET.

Prologue: The Era of Knowledge Selection	p. v
About the Authors	p. xi
Part 1 The End of Knowledge Stock and the Emerging Knowledge Selection Risk	p. 1
Chapter 1 The Shift in the Definition of "Knowledge"	p. 3
1.1 The Range of "Knowledge"	p. 3
1.2 The Basic Nature of "Knowledge"	p. 7
Chapter 2 The Cost of Knowledge Transfer and the Motives Behind Knowledge Inheritance	p. 9
2.1 Knowledge Transfer System	p. 9
2.2 Two Costs of Knowledge Transfer Systems	p. 11
2.3 Examples of Knowledge Transfer Cost	p. 12
2.4 Objectives of Knowledge Transfer	p. 18
Chapter 3 Knowledge Transfer Selection	p. 21
3.1 Conditions of Knowledge Inheritance	p. 21
3.2 Occurrence of Knowledge Selection Opportunities	p. 23
3.3 Examples of Knowledge Selection in Corporations	p. 32
3.4 Emerging Knowledge Selection Risk	p. 35
3.5 The Acceleration of the Shortening of Knowledge Life by the Evolution of IT Technologies	p. 37
Chapter 4 The Impact of Knowledge Selection	p. 47
4.1 The Effect of Knowledge Selection on Organizations	p. 47
4.2 The Conditions of the Lifetime Employment System	p. 50
4.3 New Behavior Pattern	p. 56
Part 2 How to Manage Knowledge Selection Risk	p. 59
Chapter 1 Tasks of Knowledge Selection Society	p. 61
Chapter 2 Visualization of Knowledge Demand	p. 65
2.1 The Current Situation	p. 65
2.2 Solutions (Supply Chain Management for Knowledge)	p. 65
Chapter 3 Matching of Knowledge Supply and Demand	p. 73
3.1 The Current Situation	p. 73
3.2 Solutions (Personnel Supply Derivative Business)	p. 73
Chapter 4 Securing the Time Cost of Knowledge Transfer	p. 79
4.1 The Current Situation	p. 79
4.2 Solutions	p. 79
Chapter 5 Improving the Efficiency of Knowledge Transfer Systems	p. 91
5.1 The Current Situation	p. 91
5.2 Solutions	p. 91
Chapter 6 The Framework of Knowledge Selection Society	p. 97
Epilogue: Summary	p. 99
Appendix Positioning Analysis of Vendors Based on Customer Satisfaction Survey of "Application Related Service" Industry	p. 101
Bibliography	p. 109
Index	p. 115

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