Mapping workflows and managing knowledge: capturing formal and tacit knowledge to improve performance

List of figures -- List of tables -- How to use this book -- Introduction -- Objectives of this book -- 1. Knowing what we know -- 2. Systems, processes, organizations, and workflows -- 3. Workflow mapping fundamentals -- 4. WFMA data collection and analysis -- 5. WFMA and knowledge management -- 6....

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1. Verfasser: Kmetz, John L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) Business Expert Press 2012
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Operations and supply chain management collection
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Zusammenfassung:List of figures -- List of tables -- How to use this book -- Introduction -- Objectives of this book -- 1. Knowing what we know -- 2. Systems, processes, organizations, and workflows -- 3. Workflow mapping fundamentals -- 4. WFMA data collection and analysis -- 5. WFMA and knowledge management -- 6. WFMA and dynamic modeling -- Appendix 1. A brief summary of the NAVAIR study -- Appendix 2. A partial list of process mapping software -- Notes -- References -- About the author -- Index
This is a book that does what the title says, and is different from most business process mapping information in three key ways. First, it lets users capture all the knowledge that goes into a workflow in any kind of organization, including the most difficult kind of all, the tacit knowledge people bring to the job and carry in their heads. Second, it is simple, powerful, flexible, and easy to learn. Third, it does not require installing, learning, and applying a complicated program (sometimes requiring reorganization to support the software rather than the software supporting the organization). It was developed by the author in a fifteen-year long program of studying, analyzing, and improving avionics maintenance processes for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force, and then applied to organizations of all kinds ever since, for more than two decades. It has been taught and applied by the author and others in many short courses. It works
Beschreibung:Part of: 2012 digital library
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource (xviii, 220 p.)
ISBN:9781606494554