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The e-Knowledge Industry is at a formative stage in
its development. Pervasive and powerful forces described in the
table below are driving the emergence of e-knowledge in theory and
practice. Yet even leading-edge innovators and organizations are
taking fundamentally incremental steps in vision and practice. It’s
time for practitioners and policy makers to make a jump shift in
vision.
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These potential forces provide the basis for raising
expectations, elevating perspectives and mobilizing energies for
the e-Knowledge Industry and for transforming the ability of organizations
and individuals to create, manage, repurpose, combine and experience
knowledge.
This book aims to support and articulate the need
for this transformation. We endeavor to explain the meaning of these
developments in terms that are clearly understandable to policy
makers, organizational leaders and managers, and educators and learning/training
professionals in all settings. We illustrate how this transformation
will touch virtually every learning and knowledge management enterprise.
The focus is on understanding the implications of these developments
for the various contexts — technical, process, standards, cultural,
and political — where there is interplay of knowledge management
and learning. Moreover, the focus is also on both insight and concrete
advice on how to accelerate individual and organizational readiness
for e-knowledge. Put simply, Transforming e-Knowledge aims
to be a manifesto for the emerging e-Knowledge Industry.
The table on the following two pages summarizes the
topics and ideas that follow. Scan them now and revisit them as
you proceed through the book.
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