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1. Mary Adams

   • Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization with Michael Oleksak

2. Verna Allee

   • The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence

   • The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks

   • Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration with Oliver Schwabe

3. Debra Amidon

   • The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage

   • Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy: The Ken Awakening

4. Patti Anklam

   • Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World

5. Jerry Ash

   • Next Generation Knowledge Management with Stephen Denning, Michel Pommier and Lesley Shneier; Carl Frappaolo; Leif Edvinsson; Debra Amidon; Ash Sooknanan; Richard Cross; David Skyrme; Karl-Erik Sveiby; Charles M. Savage; Dave Snowden; Hubert Saint-Onge with Debra Wallace; and Carol Kinsey Goman

   • Next Generation Knowledge Management, Volume 2 with Dave Snowden, Steve Barth, Robert H. Buckman, David Gurteen, Patti Anklam, Carl Frappaolo, Jerry Ash, Megan Santosus, Verna Allee, Nancy Dixon, Rob Lebow, and Nick Milton

   • Next Generation Knowledge Management, Volume 3 with Stan Garfield, Raj Datta, Arthur Shelley, Tom Barfield, Gary Cullen, Melissie Rumizen, Scott W. Shaffar, Doug Madgic, and Michael Behounek

6. Stephanie Barnes

   • Designing a Successful KM Strategy: A Guide for the Knowledge Management Professional with NIck Milton

7. Irma Becerra

   • Knowledge Management: Systems and Processes with Rajiv Sabherwal

8. Hind Benbya

   • Knowledge Management: Systems Implementation: Lessons from the Silicon Valley

9. Alex and David Bennet

   • The Course of Knowledge: A 21st Century Theory with Joyce Avedisian

10. Helen Blunden

    • Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams: A manager’s guide to communication, collaboration and coordination with Microsoft Teams with Paul Woods, Benjamin Elias, and Darrell Webster

    • Gourmet Teamwork (with Microsoft Teams and the rest of Microsoft 365): Recipes to inspire engagement, improve business processes, and make hybrid work sustainable with Paul Woods, Aditi Gupta, John Tropea, Jeff Bell, and Jenni McNamara

11. Max Boisot

    • Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy

    • Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions, and Cultures

12. Nick Bontis

    • Models of Intellectual Capital

13. Stowe Boyd

    • The Way of Knowledge: Managing the Unmanageable

14. Mark Britz and James Tyer

    • Social by Design: How to create and scale a collaborative company

15. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

    • The Social Life of Information

16. Johel Brown-Grant

    • Knowledge Management and the Practice of Storytelling: The Competencies and Skills Needed for a Successful Implementation

17. Robert Buckman

    • Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization

18. Tony Byrne

    • The Right Way to Select Technology: Get the Real Story on Finding the Best Fit

19. Shawn Callahan

    • Putting Stories to Work

20. Danièle Chauvel

    • Knowledge Horizons: The Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management with Charles Despres

21. Chun Wei Choo

    • The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge (edited with Nick Bontis) with Max Boisot, C. K. Prahalad, Georg von Krogh, Anne Marie Knott, Ikujiro Nonaka, Kazuo Ichijo, Dorothy Leonard, Amy Edmondson, et al.

    • The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information To Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions

22. Chris Collison

    • Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations with Geoff Parcell

    • The KM Cookbook: Stories and Strategies for Organisations Exploring Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 with Paul Corney and Patricia Eng

23. Curtis Conley

    • Collaborative Knowledge Networks with Stephen Dale, David Galipeau, Javier Martinez, Rooven Pakkiri, Daanish Khan, and Josh Liu

24. Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham

    • The New Social Learning: Connect. Collaborate. Work. 2nd Edition

25. Paul Corney and Patricia Eng

    • Navigating the Minefield: A Practical KM Companion

    • The KM Cookbook: Stories and Strategies for Organisations Exploring Knowledge Management Standard ISO30401 with Chris Collision

26. Rob Cross

    • Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being

27. Kimiz Dalkir

    • Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice

28. Thomas Davenport

    • Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know with Laurence Prusak

    • Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers

29. Ross Dawson

    • Implementing Enterprise 2.0: A Practical Guide To Creating Business Value Inside Organizations with Web Technologies

    • Thriving on Overload: The 5 Powers for Success in a World of Exponential Information

30. David DeLong

    • Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce

31. Stephen Denning

    • The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

    • The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

32. Nancy Dixon

    • Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know

    • CompanyCommand: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession with Nate Allen, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner and Steve Schweitzer

    • Establishing a Successful Knowledge-Driven Culture with Alice MacGillivray, Helen Clegg, Cheryl Cooper, Rob Koene, Rupert Lescott, Felicity McNish, David W J Millar, Nick Milton, Rosemary Nunn, Madanmohan Rao, Alexander Schauer, Susan Stewart, Jon Thorne, Mirelle Walker, and Darryl Wing

33. Peter Drucker

    • Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management with Ikujiro Nonaka, David Garvin, Dorothy Leonard, John Seely Brown, et al.

34. Seth Earley

    • The AI-Powered Enterprise: Harness the Power of Ontologies to Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Profitable

35. Amy Edmondson

    • Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

36. Leif Edvinsson

    • Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower with MIchael S. Malone

37. Carl Frappaolo

    • Knowledge Management

38. Roger Forsgren

    • Lean Knowledge Management: How NASA Implemented a Practical KM Program

39. Heidi Gardner

    • Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos

    • Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work with Ivan A. Matviak

40. Stan Garfield

    • Implementing a Successful KM Program

    • Proven Practices for Promoting a Knowledge Management Program

    • Handbook of Community Management: A Guide to Leading Communities of Practice

    • The Five Cs of KM

    • Gaining buy-in for KM with Nick Milton and Tom Young, Bill Kaplan, Ian Fry, Keith Power, Michel J. Boustani, Gavin Ireland, Ana Neves, Simon Yelsky, and Paul McDowall

    • Knowledge Management Matters with John and JoAnn Girard, Stephanie Barnes, Shawn Callahan, Paul Corney, Nancy Dixon, Anthony Rhem, Arthur Shelley, Douglas Weidner, and Ron Young

    • Measuring the ROI of Knowledge Management 2nd edition with Andrew Gent, David Griffiths, James Gunn, Tim Hawley, John Hovell, James Loft, Hélène Russell, and Dave Snowden

    • Successful Knowledge Leadership: Principles and Practice with Alison Jones, Athanasios Karagrounas, Nico Keppens, Tushar Kulkarni, Alice MacGillivray, Margaret McNaull, Angelo Mohanan, Katrina Pugh, Euan Semple, Arthur Shelley, David Smith, Dave Snowden, Bill Stockton, Emily Timmins, Glynys Thomas, and Alison Zartarian

41. John and JoAnn Girard

    • A Leader's Guide to Knowledge Management Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance

    • Knowledge Management Matters with Stephanie Barnes, Shawn Callahan, Paul Corney, Nancy Dixon, Stan Garfield, Anthony Rhem, Arthur Shelley, Douglas Weidner, and Ron Young

42. Annie Green, Michael Stankosky, and Linda Vandergriff

    • In Search of Knowledge Management: Pursuing Primary Principles (editors) with Vincent Ribière

43. Bhojaraju Gunjal

    • Managing Knowledge and Scholarly Assets in Academic Libraries

44. John Hagel

    • The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison

    • The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success

45. Susan Hanley

    • Esssential SharePoint 2013: Practical Guidance for Meaningful Business Results with Scott Jamison and Chris Bortlik

46. Morten Hansen

    • Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results

47. Heather Hedden

    • The Accidental Taxonomist, Third Edition

48. Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble

    • Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice (editors) with Brook Manville, Wesley C. Vestal and Kimberly Lopez, Bronwyn Stuckey and John D. Smith, Laurence Lock Lee and Mark Neff, Shawn Callahan, Nancy White, et al.

49. Ed Hoffman, Matthew Kohut, and Laurence Prusak

    • The Smart Mission: NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects 

50. Clyde Holsapple

    • Handbook on Knowledge Management 1: Knowledge Matters (editor) with Alex and David Bennet, Leif Edvinsson, Murray Jennex, Jay Liebowitz, Carla O'Dell and C. Jackson Grayson, et al.

    • Handbook of Knowledge Management: Knowledge 2: Knowledge Directions (editor) with Eric Tsui, Carla O'Dell and Cindy Hubert, Adriaan Jooste and Karl Wiig, Debra Amidon, Susan Hanley, Alex and David Bennet, Dar Wolford and Stan Kwiecien, Verna Allee, David Skyrme, et al.

51. John Hovell

    • Conversational Leadership: Expanding and Combining Knowledge Services, Knowledge Management, Organization Development, and Diversity and Inclusion

52. Murray Jennex

    • Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (6-volume set)

53. Chris Jones

    • The DNA of Collaboration: Unlocking the Potential of 21st Century Teams

54. Bill Kaplan

    • Losing your minds: Capturing, Retaining and Leveraging Organisational Knowledge

55. Gary A. Klein

    • Snapshots of the Mind

56. Michael E. D. Koenig and T. Kanti Srikantaiah

    • Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't (editors) with Tom Short, Cindy Hubert and Carla O'Dell, Timothy Powell, Alex Bennet, Reed Stuedemann, Steve Barth, David Bennet, et al. - Table of Contents

57. Patrick Lambe

    • Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness

    • The Knowledge Manager's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embedding Effective Knowledge Management in your Organization with Nick Milton

    • Principles of Knowledge Auditing: Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation 

58. Frank Leistner

    • Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work

    • Connecting Organizational Silos: Taking Knowledge Flow Management to the Next Level with Social Media

59. Dorothy Leonard

    • Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom with Walter Swap

    • Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts with Walter Swap and Gavin Barton

    • Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation

    • Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity And Innovation

60. John Lewis

    • The Explanation Age: Inspiring Visualizations of the New Learning Organization

    • Story Thinking: Transforming Organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

61. Charlene Li

    • Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies with Josh Bernoff

62. Jay Liebowitz

    • Bursting the Big Data Bubble: The Case for Intuition-Based Decision Making (editor) with Lesley Shneier and Linda Hummel

63. Jessica Lipnack

    • Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology with Jeffrey Stamps

    • The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century with Jeffrey Stamps

    • The Networking Book: People Connecting with People with Jeffrey Stamps

    • The TeamNet Factor: Bringing the Power of Boundary Crossing into the Heart of Your business with Jeffrey Stamps

64. Lisa Maria Martin

    • Everyday Information Architecture

65. Andrew McAfee

    • Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges

66. Richard Millington

    • Buzzing Communities: How to Build Bigger, Better, and More Active Online Communities

    • The Indispensable Community: Why Some Brand Communities Thrive When Others Perish

    • Build Your Community: Turn your connections into a powerful online community

67. Nick Milton

    • The Lessons Learned Handbook: Practical Approaches to Learning from Experience

    • Knowledge Management for Teams and Projects

    • Knowledge Management for Sales and Marketing: A Practitioner’s Guide with Tom Young

    • Performance Through Learning: Knowledge Management in Practice with Carol Gorelick and Kurt April

    • Designing a Successful KM Strategy: A Guide for the Knowledge Management Professional with Stephanie Barnes

    • The Knowledge Manager's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embedding Effective Knowledge Management in your Organization with Patrick Lambe

    • A Guide to Global Best Practice and Standards in KM with Ron Young, Hank Malik, Patrick DiDomenico, Dave Snowden, et al.

68. Peter Morville

    • Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond 

    • Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become

    • Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

    • Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything

    • Amazon.com: Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals

69. Ikujiro Nonaka

    • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation with Hirotaka Takeuchi

    • The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation with Hirotaka Takeuchi

    • Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm with Ryoko Toyama and Toru Hirata

    • Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation with Georg von Krogh and Kazuo Ichijo

    • Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation - edited with Toshihiro Nishiguchi

70. Carla O'Dell

    • If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice with C Jackson Grayson

    • The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business with Cindy Hubert

71. Edna Pasher and Tuvya Ronen

    • The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management: A Strategic Plan to Leverage Your Company's Intellectual Capital

72. Alex Pentland

    • Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

73. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton

    • The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action

74. Tim Powell

    • The Knowledge Value Chain® Handbook

    • The Value of Knowledge: The Economics of Enterprise Knowledge and Intelligence

75. Gilbert Probst, Steffen Raub, and Kai Romhardt

    • Managing Knowledge: Building Blocks for Success

76. Laurence Prusak

    • Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know with Thomas Davenport

    • California Management Review, Volume 40, Number 3, Spring, 1998 with Ikujiro Nonaka, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Dorothy Leonard, Georg von Krogh, Carla O'Dell and C. Jackson Grayson, Thomas Davenport, Leif Edvinsson, et al. - Table of Contents - Chapters

77. Katrina Pugh

    • Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam

    • Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results (editor) with T.J. Elliott; Jorge Trevino et al.; Herman D’Hooge and Debra Lavell; Madelyn Blair; Erica Hansen; V. Mary Abraham; Sheryl Skifstad; Karla Phlypo; Robert Bogue; Susan Scrupski, Catherine Shinners, and Joachim Stroh; Jean Pagani; John Hovell; Sheen S. Levine, Trish Gorman, and Michael J. Prietula; Jeff Carr; Alma Dakaj; Lauren Perkins and Janine Buis; Venu Vasuvedan; Ralph Poole; and Roberto Evaristo

78. Madanmohan Rao

    • Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques: Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions

    • Leading With Knowledge: Knowledge Management Practices in Global Infotech Companies

79. Daniel Rasmus

    • Management by Design: Applying Design Principles to the Work Experience

80. Jürgen Renn

    • The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

81. Anthony J. Rhem

    • Knowledge Management in Practice

    • Knowledge Management in Law Firms with Porcia Newell et al.

82. James Robertson

    • Essential Intranets: Inspiring Sites That Deliver Business Value

    • Designing Intranets Creating Sites That Work

    • What Every Intranet Team Should Know

83. Melissie Rumizen

    • Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management

84. Hubert Saint-Onge and Debra Wallace

    • Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage

85. Shawn Santos

    • How Companies Succeed in Social Business: Case Studies and Lessons from Adobe, Cisco, Unisys, and 18 More Brands (editor) with Gloria Burke, et al.

86. Euan Semple

    • Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do: A Manager's Guide to the Social Web

87. Arthur Shelley

    • The Organizational Zoo: A Survival Guide to Work Place Behavior

    • KNOWledge SUCCESSion: Sustained Performance and Capability Growth Through Strategic Knowledge Projects

    • Becoming Adaptable: Creative facilitation to develop yourself and transform cultures

88. George Siemens

    • Knowing Knowledge

89. David Skyrme

    • Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works with Peter Senge, David DeLong, Bill Ives and Cindy Gordon, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, Dorothy Leonard, Karl-Erik Sveiby, Nick Bontis, Laurence Lock Lee, et al.

90. Dave Snowden

    • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World with others

91. Guy St. Clair

    • The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist with Barrie Levy Schessler

92. John Stepper

    • Working Out Loud: For a Better Career and Life

93. Thomas A. Stewart

    • Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations

    • The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization

94. Karl Erik Sveiby

    • The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets

95. Amrit Tiwana

    • The Knowledge Management Toolkit: Orchestrating IT, Strategy, and Knowledge Platforms (2nd Edition)

96. Charles Tryon

    • Managing Organizational Knowledge: 3rd Generation Knowledge Management and Beyond

97. Gordon Vala-Webb

    • Building Smarter Organizations: How to Lead Your Zombie Organization Back to Life

98. Georg von Krogh

    • Putting Knowledge Networks into Action: Methodology, Development, Maintenance edited with Andreas Seufert, Andrea Back, and Ellen Enkel

99. Zach Wahl and Joseph Hilger

    • Making Knowledge Management Clickable: Knowledge Management Systems Strategy, Design, and Implementation

100. David Weinberger

     • The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual with Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, and Doc Searls

     • Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web

     • Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

     • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

     • Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

101. Etienne Wenger-Trayner

     • Learning to Make a Difference: Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces with Beverly Wenger-Trayner

     • Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

     • Cultivating Communities of Practice with Richard McDermott and William M. Snyder

     • Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities with Nancy White and John D. Smith

102. Nancy White

     • Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities with Etienne Wenger-Trayner and John D. Smith

103. Karl Wiig

     • Knowledge Management Foundations: Thinking About Thinking - How People and Organizations Represent, Create and Use Knowledge

     • Knowledge Management: The Central Focus for Intelligent-Acting Organizations

     • Knowledge Management Methods: Practical Approaches to Managing Knowledge

     • People-Focused Knowledge Management: How Effective Decision Making Leads to Corporate Success

104. Ron Young

     • Knowledge Asset Management: Beyond the Process-centred and Product-centred Approaches with Gregoris Mentzas, Dimitris Apostolou, and Andreas Abecker