BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Knowledge Worker
- an employee who deals in information, ideas, and expertise. Knowledge workers are products of the so-called information age, in which the emphasis is on creativity and innovation rather than on maintaining the status quo. According to Peter Drucker, in the new economy every employee is becoming a knowledge worker.
Wiktionary Definition for: Knowledge Worker
- someone who works with information or data
Additional Resources
- Knowledge Work Is Hard
- Article talks about knowledge worker’s productivity. As to measure, no body bother about it, there are many productivity tools for knowledge worker, but they do not connect well with each other. This paper gives the description of s
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity And Organisational Knowledge
- Improving the productivity of knowledge workers is one of the most important challenges for companies that face the transition from the industrial economy to an economy based on information and knowledge. This paper briefly explores the failure of traditional knowledge management to address the problem of knowledge worker productivity and...
- White papers 2004-07-05
- To Boost Productivity of Knowledge Workers
- The paper focuses on the need to improve knowledge-worker productivity. The upstream oil and gas industry, and more specifically the domain of prospect generation, appraisal, and field development, remain under constant pressure to improve performance measures and knowledge-worker productivity. Given declining average field sizes, decreasing well productivities, escalating depletion rates,...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Thoughts On Empowerment
- Modern business era is rightfully known as the ‘knowledge-age.’ Today’s professional is knowledge professional. He/she knows the art of leveraging the power of information to his/her advantage. The knowledge professional works best in an environment that is empowerment-driven. Such environment allows the professional to make decisions regarding work with minimum...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Putting It All Together Again
- From the executive summary: ‘Knowledge work is hard to measure. Although, not all knowledge workers are alike, there is no standard classification or segmentation scheme for them. There are many productivity tools for knowledge workers, but they do not connect well with each other. The organizational support for knowledge work...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- What Do You Know?
- The knowledge worker and the knowledge environment today require synergy and collaboration more than ever before. It is immeasurable, intangible and yet clearly invaluable. The collective knowledge that is the sum of what every employee in a company knows, and what other information that company has accumulated over the years,...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Ten Guiding Principles For Knowledge Management In e-Government
- Knowledge management, popularly known by its acronym KM, as is known nowadays, is only few years old and is a distinct contribution of the private sector where the concept of knowledge as a "Competitive advantage of the firm" and "Knowledge capital" hold the sway. It is only that Knowledge Management...
- White papers 2007-01-11
- Knowledge Content and Worker Participation in Environmental Management at Mummy
- This paper looks at, within the context of lean production, how and in what ways employees participate in environmental improvements. The paper uses data from an automobile plant well known for its participative work structures, New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI), to look more closely at the dynamics of worker participation...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Why You Need a Personal Knowledge-Management Strategy
- The goal of knowledge work is to create the unique deliverable appropriate to a particular customer and context, not to reproduce the same deliverable one created the last time. Knowledge management is about making it easier to create that deliverable by taking better advantage of what has been done before....
- White papers 2005-05-24
- The Impact Of Mobile And Wireless Technology On Knowledge Workers
- Organisations continue to be disappointed at the difference that ICT has made to knowledge worker productivity. This paper reports an exploratory study of the extent to which emerging mobile and wireless ICT can support the mobile nature of the knowledge worker's job, including the impact that these technologies can have...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Marketing Articles on Positioning: What is an InfoGuru Anyway?
- An InfoGuru is a business person with valuable information who leverages what they know to expand his/her success while making a contribution. So an InfoGuru isn't someone who has a lot of knowledge and information, who simply sells that information. That person would be classified as an "Expert." Nor is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Knowledge Worker Interview Questionnaire
- Articles 2007-02-05
- Big Offices Are Better
- It is ubiquitous to beat up on Information Technology (IT) organization. Yet, when it comes to knowledge worker productivity and effectiveness, some practices employed in IT are considered valuable in enhancing knowledge work. IT organizations are among the only knowledge work institutions to measure productivity and processes, work collaboratively across...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Rising Above the Crowd: How Top-Performing Knowledge Workers Distinguish Themselves
- Few organizations know how to maximize knowledge worker performance to achieve optimum business results, however. Most executives focus exclusively on attracting and retaining talented individuals; few bother to ask how they can best support and enhance the performance of the knowledge workers they already employ. To determine how organizations can...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Appendix D: Computing a Retires-Worker Benefit
- This paper provides instructions and a worksheet for computing a retired-worker benefit. The worksheet can be used for persons born in 1928 through 1941-that is, those who attained age 62 in 2003 or earlier and were under age 75 at the end of 2003. The worksheet assumes that the worker...
- White papers
- Appendix D: Computing a Retired-Worker Benefit
- This paper provides instructions and a worksheet for computing a retired-worker benefit. The worksheet can be used for persons born in 1929 through 1942-that is, those who attained age 62 in 2004 or earlier and were under age 75 at the end of 2004. The worksheet assumes that the worker...
- White papers
- Towards Information Visualization in Cooperative, Evolutionary Knowledge Spaces
- Contemporary knowledge management activities in an enterprise suffer from the discrepancy between the global benefit for the organization and the personal benefit for the individual knowledge worker. To ameliorate this divergence an evolutionary approach was investigated which automatically integrates the structures of individual knowledge workspaces into comprehensive organizational knowledge structures....
- White papers 2003-07-02
- Knowledge Harvesting Translates Implicit Knowledge to Assets
- Knowledge Management typically focuses on tacit and explicit knowledge, which can be found in someone’s head or in printed materials. A third form of knowledge—implicit knowledge—refers to the middle ground of knowledge that can be captured and written down once people explore the full depth of a vital process. “Knowledge...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Quantifying and Fostering Organizational Effectiveness
- While measuring knowledge worker productivity and how it contributes to an organization's overall effectiveness is difficult, it is not impossible. The rewards of doing so are twofold. Measurement allows for management, which can help an organization guide and direct its valuable human capital toward the goals it has identified. In...
- White papers 2004-04-19
- Knowledge Worker Interview Questionnaire
- It takes on average of seven hours to research, develop, and format a questionnaire to elicit specific information from a job candidate. By using this MyWorkTools.com product, which comes as an easily adaptable Microsoft Word document, you will save approximately 6 hours. This tool includes questions on the candidate's professional...
- Download resources 2005-08-02
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