Thinking for a Living, Thomas H Davenport
Thinking for a Living, Thomas H Davenport
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Thinking for a Living
How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers

Author: Thomas H Davenport

Narrator: Thomas H Davenport

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/08/2011


Synopsis

Maximize Your Most Critical Asset.
THE GUIDE NO MANAGER CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT!

Knowledge workers are the innovators, designers and marketers of your company's products and services. They are the highly paid strategists, executives, and IT specialists whose ideas and expertise fuel your success. But are they delivering their best performance?

Leading knowledge-management and process-innovation expert Thomas Davenport shows you how to:

Identify your company's most crucial category of knowledge worker;

Choose appropriate interventions and performance measures;

Use computers to mediate and structure knowledge work;

Select the most effective technology;

Understand the value of social networks and facilitate their use; and

Structure the physical environment to maximize productivity.
Thomas Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is the director of research for Babson Executive Education, an Accenture Fellow, and the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know.

About Thomas H Davenport

Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics/big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School and School of Public Health, and MIT Sloan School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alexandra on October 19, 2017

Some interesting nuggets on how the best knowledge workers are those with the network that complements their skillset, who bounce ideas in the early stages. Also interesting that it used to be that managers were the supposed smartest workers in the era before knowledge work became as widespread as i......more

Goodreads review by Chris on November 28, 2020

I listened to the audio book and it is okay. I recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Jon on February 22, 2025

As a manager and leader of design, I am always on the lookout to understand the disciple better, so I can lead and facilitate designers better. This book was mentioned explores the importance of finding appropriate ways of managing knowledge work. Most of our management goals and principles are base......more

Goodreads review by Libra1bk on October 09, 2018

I tried reading this book several times and although the references to other sources were solid the information was too broad throughout - including case studies with current statistics on this subject would have been interesting to read about.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on June 21, 2020

Was okay......more