Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing

Taylor & Francis

Intends to provide a broader case for action for knowledge management. This book offers a comprehensive view of the impact that the knowledge revolution on our 21st Century society. It explains the cause and effect relationship between the global knowledge-based economy and knowledge management. > It is said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a time honored cautionary statement that has suddenly acquired a new urgency. A little knowledge is dangerous, because as a force for dramatic change, knowledge today is revolutionary. More is known and being learned everyday than was ever known or learned before. As a direct result, the pace of change-and that means change in the sense of everything from business to economics, science, medicine, and politics-is beginning to accelerate much more rapidly than ever before in mankind's history.The purpose of this book then is twofold. First it is to provide a broader case for action for knowledge management-to explain what it is;