Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation

By Dorothy Leonard-Barton

Book Overview

Focuses on the knowledge-creating activities that managers control: developing problem-solving skills; experimenting to build for the future; and integrating information across internal project and functional boundaries. This work explains managers what constitutes a core capability, and which non-strategic capabilities can be outsourced.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875848591
• ISBN13: 9780875848594
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Well written book on knowledge creation

Professor Barton has written an extremely readable book on a very imporotant topic, knowledge creation. Now a days, knowledge has become a buzz word in alomost every sphere of economic activities. But what does it mean? What does it take to create knowldege? This book addresses such questions. Barton has done important research on the subject and has produced the book with some new concepts that are extremely important in management. Her idea of "core rigidity" is indeed something every senior executive should think about.

A very worthwhile read.

This book would serve both seasoned knowledge practioners and those new to the field equally well. The writing is clear and crisp, and the content is well organized. I highly recommend this book for anyone charged with implementing knowledge strategies or at all interested in the topic.