Resources - Book review - If you've got it, swap it! A ceaseless flow of case studies blunts the edge of this insightful and amusing study of how organisations can share knowledge, according to David Tebbutt.(Making Knowledge Visible)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

If you are involved in the exchange of knowledge in organisations, this book could be just up your street. In it, author Liz Orna describes the means by which we exchange knowledge as information products - or, slightly confusingly, IP. In my more sleepy moments - and there were several with this book- I had to be reminded that IP was not a reference to intellectual property or Internet Protocol.

The writing style is academic, but the book's layout and structure is more accessible. It consists largely of case studies, interspersed with advice from the author and clear, although somewhat portentously presented, illustrations.

As a profoundly impatient person, I wanted the case studies separated from the general flow of the book so I could hammer through the theory and refer to the case studies for enlightenment when I got stuck or needed a change of pace.

Even though the case ...