Newswise — Babson Executive Education - a top-ranked provider of executive education programs - has developed a new program, Managing in the Knowledge Age, to help managers and professionals leverage their most critical resource - knowledge - in work, in business practices, and in products and services.
"Success in today's highly competitive business world is really about 'mind over matter,' says Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College, who will co-direct this new open enrollment program on April 9-13, 2006, in the award-winning Babson Executive Conference Center in Wellesley, MA.
Davenport is a recognized authority on knowledge management, knowledge worker productivity, and organizational learning. He has authored or coauthored more than a hundred articles and ten books, including pioneering books on knowledge management -- Working Knowledge, The Attention Economy, and the highly-acclaimed Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers.
According to Davenport, "Whether a business sells software, sneakers, or services, the trend is the same: physical assets - once the only source of competitive wealth and power - have given way to intangible and intellectual assets in driving competitive success."
Managing in the Knowledge Age offers access to the leading thinkers on the subject of knowledge and organizational learning as well as interaction with those innovators who have had success in using knowledge and learning to make their organizations more efficient and effective.
Through a blend of case studies, faculty presentations, practitioner-led sessions, executive coaching, and group discussion, participants will:
Gain a better understanding of the global knowledge economy; Develop or refine a knowledge strategy; Leverage social networks in their organizations; Define the processes necessary for successful execution of knowledge-intensive projects; Improve knowledge worker productivity; Measure the relative cost of knowledge transactions; Understand and employ critical knowledge and learning activities; Define roles and responsibilities; Learn how to develop and foster communities of practice.
A distinctive component of Managing in the Knowledge Age is the strategic knowledge project, or "live case study" - the epitome of action-based learning. Participants will define a knowledge management project that is either underway or in discussion at their organizations. The project will be revisited throughout the program and participants will have the opportunity to discuss it with faculty through periodic coaching sessions.
For information or to apply visit http://www.babson.edu/bee/knowledge.
Faculty Directors
Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College; Director of Research, Babson Executive Education; Co-Executive Director, Working Knowledge Research Center, Babson Executive Education
- Recognized authority on knowledge management, knowledge worker productivity, and organizational learning - Wrote or coauthored ten books, including pioneering books on knowledge management - Working Knowledge, The Attention Economy, and Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers
- Author of What's the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking, named one of the three best books of the Spring 2003 season by Fortune - Author of hundreds of articles and columns for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Financial Times, Information Week, and CIO
- Named a top 25 consultant in the world by Consulting magazine (2003) and one of the five top strategy and technology analysts in the world by Optimize magazine (2005)
- An Accenture Fellow; former professor at Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and University of Texas at Austin; former director of research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index
More about Tom Davenport can be found at www.tomdavenport.com.
Larry Prusak, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Babson Executive Education; Co-Executive Director, Working Knowledge Research Center, Babson Executive Education
- Recognized expert in helping organizations leverage and optimize their information and knowledge resources
- Coauthored pioneering books on working knowledge with Tom Davenport, including Working Knowledge and award-winning What's the Big Idea: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking
- Coauthor with Don Cohen of In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work, listed as one of the 2001 Best Business Books by Harvard Business School Press
- Founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management, a global consortium, and former Principal and Founder of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation
- Named one of the most admired knowledge leaders in the world by Work Frontiers International (2000)
More information on Larry Prusak can be found at www.laurenceprusak.com.
Other faculty will include Dorothy Leonard, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita at Harvard Business School. Leonard wrote the seminal book on knowledge creation, Wellsprings of Knowledge, and initiated and served as faculty chair for the "Leveraging Knowledge for the 21st Century" executive program at HBS. Leonard's major research interests and consulting expertise relate to managing knowledge for innovation and stimulating creativity in group settings.
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Babson Executive Education is ranked among the leading providers worldwide of custom executive programs for companies by both BusinessWeek and The Financial Times. Babson Executive Education fosters the spirit of innovation: the drive to identify new opportunities and bring them to commercial realization. It shows large corporations how to be agile, efficient, and effective under adverse conditions and during periods of growth. For more information on Babson Executive Education and custom solutions, open programs, and research centers, visit the website: http://www.babson.edu/bee.
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Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit http://www.babson.edu.
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