"So what’s it in for me? Am I really going to get my money’s worth? Is it really value-adding?"
Sound familiar? Well, these questions naturally come to life every time we are faced with decisions like investing in a new strategy, program, process or project. It’s always going to be about cost-benefit analysis. How much money am I going to be sinking in to this investment and how much return or value am I going to get out of it?
Well, these questions hold true also for KM initiatives. Now that we are faced with increasingly difficult economic times, are initiatives such as KM programs and practices truly worth the effort as well as the investment? Or can we just keep on doing what we used to do and still survive in the competitive arena that we find ourselves in?
Top management always want a clear understanding of the ’bottom line’ benefits of knowledge management before they invest in such initiatives. So, let’s take some time to look at the benefits of these KM initiatives.
The concept of the KM Benefits Tree, which was developed by David...
"So what’s it in for me? Am I really going to get my money’s worth? Is it really value-adding?"
Sound familiar? Well, these questions naturally come to life every time we are faced with decisions like investing in a new strategy, program, process or project. It’s always going to be about cost-benefit analysis. How much money am I going to be sinking in to this investment and how much return or value am I going to get out of it?
Well, these questions hold true also for KM initiatives. Now that we are faced with increasingly difficult economic times, are initiatives such as KM programs and practices truly worth the effort as well as the investment? Or can we just keep on doing what we used to do and still survive in the competitive arena that we find ourselves in?
Top management always want a clear understanding of the ’bottom line’ benefits of knowledge management before they invest in such initiatives. So, let’s take some time to look at the benefits of these KM initiatives.
The concept of the KM Benefits Tree, which was developed by David...
1-Roberto Hernández Sampieri, Carlos Fernández Collado, Pilar Baptista Lucio (2006),Metodología de la Investigación, 4ta edición, McGraw-Hill Interamericana, Mexico.
El texto es de gran valor para todo aquel que desea conocer cómo se realiza una investigación social. Es un texto revisado por más de 400 profesores de Latinoamérica que dictan cursos sobre el tema en distintas universidades del continente. Este libro ha sido un èxito en muchos países y en Puerto Rico. Consta de 11 capítulos muy bien explicados, ilustrados y con excelentes ejemplos. Está estructurado para que el estudiante graduado pueda usarlo como guía para la redacción de una investigación social. Contiene temas sobre los enfoques metodológicos, los distintos tipos de investigación, los diseños y tècnicas de investigación social, la prueba de hipótesis, la recolección de datos y muchos temas de interès en la investigación social. Con un diseño moderno y ameno, el contenido ha sido revisado y actualizado, conservando el enfoque de ejemplos multidisciplinarios que lo caracterizan desde ediciones anteriores, a la vez que incluye recursos adicionales como fotografías, glosario al margen y mapas conceptuales al inicio de capítulo, y secciones revisadas: fuentes sugeridas, apéndices con búsquedas en Internet, resúmenes y ejercicios. Además, para... [More]
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"So what’s it in for me? Am I really going to get my money’s worth? Is it really value-adding?"