Over the past decade, knowledge and learning have emerged as the keys to economic success and as a focus for thinking about organizational effectiveness and innovation. An overwhelming majority of large organizations now engage in a wide range of knowledge and learning activities and nearly all have programs and personnel explicitly dedicated to these tasks. The volume is targeted at those new to knowledge and learning, and is filled with practical examples and focuses on the most critical issues, featuring seminal contributions from leading authorities including: * Thomas Davenport, * Dorothy Leonard, * John Seely Brown, * Sidney Winter, * W. Chan Kim, * Peter Druckard. The book is organized around the three key steps in managing knowledge: development, retention, and transfer. These sections are preceded by a section creating the strategic context for knowledge and followed by a section on the social dimensions that are often overlooked. Finally, the book looks to the future of knowledge and learning. This Reader is an accessible way for executives and students taking advanced Management Studies and executive courses to learn from the latest examples on this topic.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2019, held in Avila, Spain, in June 2019. The 19 regular and 14 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key applications areas, including: Agronomy and Internet of Things, coordination and structure, finance and energy, function and autonomy, humans and societies, reasoning and optimization, traffic and routing.

Over the past decade, knowledge and learning have emerged as the keys to economic success and as a focus for thinking about organizational effectiveness and innovation. An overwhelming majority of large organizations now engage in a wide range of knowledge and learning activities and nearly all have programs and personnel explicitly dedicated to these tasks. The volume is targeted at those new to knowledge and learning, and is filled with practical examples and focuses on the most critical issues, featuring seminal contributions from leading authorities including: * Thomas Davenport, * Dorothy Leonard, * John Seely Brown, * Sidney Winter, * W. Chan Kim, * Peter Druckard. The book is organized around the three key steps in managing knowledge: development, retention, and transfer. These sections are preceded by a section creating the strategic context for knowledge and followed by a section on the social dimensions that are often overlooked. Finally, the book looks to the future of knowledge and learning. This Reader is an accessible way for executives and students taking advanced Management Studies and executive courses to learn from the latest examples on this topic.

The books that have been written about "Lean Enterprise" would constitute an imposing library by themselves, but, a few very important aspects seem to have gone unexplored, and are "conspicuous by their absence" once the "journey towards Lean" has begun. To fill these gaps, Eric Matson is writing the "Schmidt-Creek Paddler's Guidebook Series" which will address these issues, and the first, "ASWO " or "Ah, Shucks, We're Out " examines the often naughty question of how to plan and manage inventories (of all sorts) in a "Lean-Enterprise" environment.