Ronald Maier

A baffling message scrawled in lipstick on a mutitated prostitute frustrates Detective Pete Swisher. Complicating matters Chief of Detectives, Tom Hardesty, keeps a roll of bills found in the victim's clothes. Both have been skimming drug money, but Swisher balks at robbing stiffs. Matters come to a head when the same message is found on another mutilated prostitute and CIA officer, Bill Williams gets concerned when his daughter, Judith, is innocently involved with her brilliant math professor. Treading forbidden civilian territory Bill unravels the truth about her teacher but is turned aside as just another kook. An angry father plans his own revenge and refuses to help. Swisher turns to Williams despite Hardesty's warning to stay away from the CIA rat. Then they discover Judith is in imminent danger.

Sonny's Mother

Thomas Hädrich

René Peinl

Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to design and implement such an environment. It develops the vision of a modular, yet highly integrated enterprise knowledge infrastructure and presents an idealized architecture replete with current technologies and systems. The most important streams of technological development that are covered in the book are communication, collaboration, document and content management, e-learning, enterprise portals, business process management, information life cycle management, information retrieval and visualization, knowledge management, mobile computing, application and network infrastructure, Semantic Web and social software. It includes learning goals, exercises and case examples that help the reader to easily understand and practice the concepts.

Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures

Klaus North

Oliver Haas

This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies. It analyzes how the disruptive power of digitization is becoming a major challenge for knowledge-based value creation worldwide, and subsequently examines the changes in how we manage information and knowledge, communicate, collaborate, learn and decide within and across organizations. The book highlights the opportunities provided by disruptive renewal, while also stressing the need for knowledge workers and organizations to transform governance, leadership and work organization. Emerging new business models and digitally enabled co-creation are presented as drivers that can help establish new ways of managing knowledge. In turn, a number of carefully selected and interpreted case studies provide a link to practice in organizations.

New Findings and Practical Cases

Knowledge Management in Digital Change

Theo Hug

Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit Dynamiken und Transformationsprozessen an den Schnittstellen medialer, sozialer und organisationaler Entwicklungen. Die Beitr ge zielen auf die Erkundung inter- und transdisziplin rer Diskursfelder. Sie thematisieren kontempor re und zukunftsweisende Formen der Visualisierung und kollaborativen Nutzung von Wissensr umen.

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