Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy: The Ken Awakening, published by Butterworth-Heinemann (May 1997), is one of a trilogy of key publications.
This book is intended for managers who have practiced the best of quality and reengineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations with systematic knowledge creation and application. As a verb, ken means to know or recognize. As a noun, it means perception or understanding. Ken is the unifying term that brings together the variety of perspectives that comprise the "community of knowledge practice."
This simple, but comprehensive book provides a scope of the evolution of the knowledge movement, the core principles of modern management, an assessment to gauge the enterprise innovation competence and focus on customer innovation and a vision for the future. It is designed from small entrepreneurial forms as well as large scale enterprises. Selected for Business Literacy 2000, a companion Study Guide can be used in groups, such as management teams and/or for classroom instruction.
The Ken Awakening is also available in Chinese. Spanish, Portuguese, German and French versions have already been commissioned.
Publisher: Routledge