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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours The #1 practical knowledge management implementation guide--now completely updated! Incremental, results-driven techniques that build on existing knowledge and infrastructure Covers planning, design, development, deployment, and management Powerful new solutions for measuring the ROI of KM platforms In "The Knowledge Management Toolkit, Second Edition," leading consultant Amrit Tiwana walks step by step through the development of a state-of-the-art enterprise Knowledge Management Platform. Thoroughly revised to reflect today's latest tools, technologies, and best practices, this hands-on guide offers a complete roadmap for building KM systems incrementally?with each step delivering new business value, and seamlessly building on the work that preceded it. Utilizing practical checklists and diagrams, Dr. Tiwana introduces today's best techniques for planning, design, development, deployment, and management, demonstrating exactly how to: Identify the knowledge most crucial to your business Align business strategy and knowledge management Leverage existing infrastructure Transition from managing data to knowledge Focus on process, and on tacit?not just explicit?knowledge Architect a future-proof, adaptable KM platform Build and deploy KM systems using the proven Results Driven Incrementalism (RDI) methodology Implement leadership and reward structures that make KM work Rigorously calculate ROI on KM systems Among this edition's many new features: a thoroughly rewritten chapter on strategy; powerful new "real-options" methods for assessing ROI; in-depth discussions ofknowledge platforms and digital peer-to-peer networks; many new case studies; and much more. CD-ROM INCLUDED The accompanying CD-ROM contains Tiwana's interactive, unrestricted KM Toolkit, plus an extensive bibliographic database of recent KM research, a complete working Web-based KM system, bonus appendices, and reusable copies of all of the book's figures. Features Summary This text/CD-ROM package offers a practical implementation guide for IT professionals who wish to standardise and strategise knowledge management. Author Amrit Tiwana Publisher Prentice Hall Release date 20020228 Pages 383 ISBN 0-13-009224-X ISBN 13 978-0-13-009224-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Water resources stored by dams and reservoirs play an essential role in water resource management, hydropower and flood control. Where there is an extensive network of dam infrastructures, dams have made a major contribution to economic and social development, providing considerable storage capacity per capita. However, dams and reservoirs may also have an important social and environmental impact, and should be studied within the framework of integrated water resource management and sustainable development. Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century presents the latest research on the role played by dams and reservoirs in 21st century societies, in developed, emergent and developing countries. It analyses the viability of dams and suggests alternative solutions from a holistic perspective, considering the technical, economic, social and environmental aspects. Other issues covered include the social acceptability of dams, public involvement and dam awareness. The book covers subjects ranging from dam engineering, through the benefits and drawbacks of dams, to their social and environmental impact, and contains numerous case studies of the constructive contributions that reservoirs have made to water development and management. The book is a valuable resource for professional and dam engineers, water managers, governmental organizations and commercial enterprises responsible for dam development and management. Features Summary Presents the role played by dams and reservoirs, not only in developed countries but also in emergent and developing countries. This book analyses the viability of dams and alternative solutions from a holistic perspective... Author Luis Berga (Editor), J.M. Buil (Editor), E. Bofill (Editor), J.C. De Cea (Editor), J.A. Garcia Perez (Editor), G. Manueco (Editor), J. Polimon (Editor), A. Soriano (Editor), J. Yague (Editor) Publisher Crc Press Release date 20060525 Pages 1394 ISBN 0-415-40423-1 ISBN 13 978-0-415-40423-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now completed. Alongside this, the offshore survey completed as part of the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund has increased understanding of early prehistoric coastal change, while other researchers have extended back the time scale for a human presence in England to at least 900,000 years. From a wider Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management perspective, there has been increased participation by English Heritage in Defra and Environment Agency initiatives. It is now time to review what has been achieved and learnt from the RCZAS and other recent coastal historic environment studies. The book will include an introduction to the coastal historic environment, a consideration of long-term coastal change, an outline of survey, recording and characterisation methodology, a national review of the coastal historic environment and a separate discussion of regional significance, a set of research priorities for the future, and a final section considering how England s coastal heritage should be managed in the future. The fact that climate change will impact significantly, and mostly adversely, on the coastal historic environment, gives a special urgency to this new publication." Features Summary A review of coastal heritage including an introduction to the coastal historic environment, a consideration of long-term coastal change and a set of research priorities for the future. Author Peter Murphy Publisher Historic England Release date 20140417 Pages 184 ISBN 1-84802-107-0 ISBN 13 978-1-84802-107-5