Back to Category M&A

Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race

Using Your Company's Knowledge Assets to Get Ahead of the Competition

by Michael J. English and William H. Baker Jr.

		Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN: 9780071457941 No. pages: 304 Category: Human Resources

In this summary you will learn

Why knowledge transfer matters
How to practice knowledge transfer
What benefits knowledge transfer confers

Why you should read Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race

This book is full of insight, if you can penetrate its academic heft. Michael J. English and William H. Baker Jr. clearly have thought long and deeply about knowledge management and the practice of knowledge transfer. They’ve done their research, they define their terms in depth and they provide abundant examples. As a reference text, this book is superior. However, despite the authors’ overarching metaphor of the “knowledge transfer race,” the book is so dense it is easy to imagine executives shelving it as an authoritative sourcebook, but implementing suggestions from less informed but more accessible authors. More than once, English and Baker slow down to answer all objections and define their terms until their momentum grinds to a halt. Other attempts to serve the reader stall similarly. For example, their attempt to help readers classify best practices results in a 14-page outline. Yes, each point in the outline indicates a potentially valuable action, but getAbstract – while regarding this book with respect and admiration – fears few readers will make it through such exhaustive explanations, and recommends it primarily as a serious reference work that will reward your efforts to penetrate it.

About the Authors

Michael J. English, co-author of Benchmarking for Best Practices, is a partner in a consulting practice. Recently retired from Raytheon, William H. Baker Jr. is vice president for programs at the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Southwest Region.

Rating (what is this?)

Overall		(7)
Applicability		(7)
Innovation		(7)
Style		(4)

Level of Expertise (what is this?)

Level

(3)

Buy the Book

Click here to buy the book "Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race". If you wish to purchase 20 or more copies of the same title (not the summary, but the "real" book), please contact us at bulkorders@getAbstract.com. Make sure you include the title of the book and your phone number.

getAbstract makes it easy for you to access the summary of Winning the Knowledge Transfer Race any time or any place. Once registered, you can choose from a variety of download formats: PDF for your computer, BlackBerry, iPhone, Kindle, PDA or other handheld devices. You can even obtain the audio version of many of our summaries.
Subscribe today to gain access to this summary as well as many other compelling titles!