Book Review: What's The Big Idea?

  Knowledge Management   Lessons Learned  

So you've read every book you can find on knowledge management, been to a dozen seminars, gotten your MBA with a KM certificate, and you still can't sell your bosses on backing a major KM initiative.

Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak's new book, What's The Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking (Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 1-57851-931-4), provides a detailed analysis of "the secrets of successful idea practitioners"--including the idea of knowledge management--and may be just what you need to help get things off the ground.

Change management, re-engineering, value analysis, process modeling, balanced scorecards, six sigma, learning organizations, relationship management, core competencies, cultural realignment, data mining and, of course the brightest comet to flash across our corporate solar systems recently, e-commerce--these are just a few of the "big ideas" that have come, and to some extent gone, over the last 20 years (Appendix A lists over 140 different ideas for your consideration).

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