Knowledge Management Library

This is a directory of publicly available articles and materials, many of which can be downloaded.

If you are a manager, consultant, student, teacher and you want a good picture of the
state of the art of the most strategic issue in organizations today - read this book.
Verna Allee's book presents a broad picture of knowledge in organizations including
both theoretical and practical perspectives. Based on a very wide literature and
experience she walks the reader through many issues of this new organizational field.

- Edna Pasher

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Feature essay

The Knowledge Evolution

True Wealth and How Do We Create It?

Evolving Business Forms for the Knowledge Economy

Published papers and articles by Verna Allee

Additional brief articles

Interviews and articles about Verna

Book chapter

Assessment instrument

Video clip

Colleague contribution

Verna's complete CV is here.

Feature: Essay by Verna Allee: Letter to a Young(er) Consultant

The Knowledge Evolution:
Expanding 
Organizational Intelligence

Published in 1997, the book continues to be a best seller.

 
(link to Amazon.com)

Verna says in the Forward for the
Korean version:

"I wish to express my deepest appreciate to Dr. Yong-Koo Kim of the Mirae Management Institute in Seoul for his vision and dedication in making this translation and publication possible. It has also been my very special delight to work with Dr. Sang-Sool Kwon whose careful attention to the nuances of this work and thoughtful correspondence has led to many insightful discussions. I feel most fortunate for the opportunity to work with such a gifted and
patient colleague."

The Korean edition of the book is available through Mirae Management Institute Korea, miraemgt@chol.com.

True Wealth and How Do We Create It?

Published in 2003 by Indigo Press in India.

Edited by Verna Allee and Dinesh Chandra, copyedited
by Fran Kelly, with contributions by many, including
His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

View the Contents and
Excerpts of this beautiful hardcover book here.

Evolving Business Forms for the Knowledge Economy

Chapter

Handbook of Knowledge Management
Ed. Clyde W. Holsapple 2002,  Springer-Verlag 

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Published papers and articles by Verna Allee

A World Without Jobs, published in Inside Knowledge, January 18, 2006.

Thought Leader: SNA, published in Inside Knowledge, January 14, 2005.

Put it to the board: Verna Allee, published in Inside Knowledge, January 27, 2004.

The Technology Myth in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
Lead article, Guest Editor, Cutter IT Journal, March 2002 issue. www.cutter.com

e-Learning is Not Knowledge Management / Linezine, August 2000.

Knowledge Networks & Communities of Practice
Originally published OD Practitioner, Fall-Winter 2000.

A Delightful Dozen Principles of Knowledge Management 
Popular excerpt from The Knowledge Evolution.

Knowledge Complexity Framework© Article - Informative excerpt from The Knowledge Evolution. 

Knowledge Complexity Framework© Diagram - Diagram from The Knowledge Evolution. 

Knowledge Complexity Framework© Easy Reference Chart - From The Knowledge Evolution. 

Knowledge Archetype in Theoretical Constructs - From The Knowledge Evolution. 

Knowledge Complexity - Special Relativity Theory of Time, Knowledge and Action
From The Knowledge Evolution. 

New Tools for a New Economy 
From Perspectives on Business and Global Change, Vol. 13, No. 4, December 1999, World Business Academy. 

Knowledge or Learning?
Published in Leverage, March 1999.

The Art and Practice of Being a Revolutionary
From Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 3, Number 2, 1999.

Additional brief articles

The Knowledge Economy - A little context for why we focus on knowledge and intangibles.

Knowledge as a Resource - Why knowledge doesn't work like other types of assets.

Knowledge Value Drivers - Learn about Knowledge Value Opportunities.

Leading Knowledge Management - About learning about KM.

Interviews and articles about Verna

KnowledgeWorks: KM maxims, published in Inside Knowledge, March 28, 2006.
Article by Jerry Ash with plenty of input by Verna.
Rules to live by, maybe...
"Verna Allee recently moderated a STAR Series Dialogue for the Association of Knowledgework (AOK)..."

The dark side, by Jerry Ash, published in Inside Knowledge, March 6, 2006.
The story of a KM champion inside a company. He asked a network of KM professionals from around the world for their advice. They included Robert Buckman, Debra Amidon, and Verna.

Alex Bennet Interviews Verna Allee
Excerpts from an interview conducted in the summer of 2004 by Alex Bennet, who was interviewing thought leaders in KM for her dissertation thesis in the Ph.D. program at Fielding University.

Mihaly Nagy Interviews Verna Allee
in preparation for the Stamford Global 2-day leadership workshop, in Budapest, March 1-2,2004.

Interview: Verna Allee, published in Inside Knowledge, April 30, 2004.
Sandra Higgison speaks to Verna Allee about KM’s pitfalls and successes

Your Say: KM on Trial, Knowledge Management, December 16, 2003, Vol 7 Issue 4, from interviews by Sandra Higgison with
Verna, and Ross Dawson, Tom Knight, Frank Miller, HubertSaint-Onge, Dave Snowden, and Tom Wilson.

David Skyrme Interviews Verna Allee, December 2003
David also has a very informative website at skyrme,com.

The Knowledge: Verna Allee - August 28, 2003
Cover article - Knowledge Management, from an interview by Simon Lelic.  
Pictured: Cover article The Knowledge

Verna Allee on Rethinking KM with Steve Barth
Bottom Line KM, Knowledge Management Magazine, July 2001 issue
Pictured: Cover interview Bottom Line KM with Steve Barth

Book Chapter

Mapping Business Critical Knowledge (Die Darstellung von Unternehmenswissen)

Practical Manual of Knowledge Management Ed. Matthias Bellmann, Helmut Krcmar and Tom Sommerlatte, 2002.
Simposion Publishing-Verlag, Dusseldorf. (English and German editions)

Wissensmanagement
Hrsg.: M. Bellmann, H. Krcmar, T. Sommerlatte, Hardcover, 864 Seiten inkl. eBook auf CD-ROM ISBN 3-933814-97-9 Erscheinungsjahr: 2002

Open window for more information - in German.

Assessment instrument

Knowledge Links™ Survey and Interpretation of Results

Video clip

Three Levels of Innovation - Presentation from Verna's keynote at KM Europe 2003. (2 minutes, in Windows Media Player)

Colleague contribution

Knowledge Complexity Diagram by David Meggitt

This intriguing diagram is based on Verna's
Complexity Framework.

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