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American author and consultant
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Arnold Kransdorff is a British author, business historian and publisher who was the first to identify and directly address the phenomenon of corporate amnesia in the early 1980s, soon after the flexible labour market started to make a significant impact on job tenure and related productivity growth. He specialises in the Knowledge Management (KM) discipline of knowledge transfer of Organisational Memory (OM) to successive generations of replacements.  

His first book on the subject, Corporate Amnesia, was short-listed for the UK’s Management Book of the Year in 1999 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corporate-Amnesia-Keeping-know-how-Know-how/dp/0750639490) and was selected as one of 800 titles worldwide to launch the Microsoft Reader eBooks program in 2000. In 2006 Corporate DNA, was published, followed by  Knowledge Management: The Death of Wisdom for the US market (https://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/knowledge-management-the-death-of-wisdom-why-our-companies-have-lost-it-and-how-they-can-get-it-back/) in 2012. A DIY toolkit for companies - Learning how to do Knowledge Transfer (http://www.mrcorporateamnesia.com/) – was published in 2020.

In 2023 he was asked to suggest ways in which the UK’s academic business historians could overhaul their contribution to business education (https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgbOrVZ9M0-DgWiOA79rTGFvH4mG?e=020NhV).  

A former financial analyst and industrial commentator for the Financial Times in London, he has won several national and international awards, among them Industrial Feature Writer of the Year (1981) and an Award of Excellence (1997) from Anbar Management Intelligence, the world’s leading guide in management journal literature. He has assisted in the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce’s (RSA) Inquiry on Tomorrow’s Company, the Economic and Social Research Council–commissioned study on Management Research, the Confederation of British Industry’s deliberations on Flexible Labour Markets, and the Washington, D.C.–based Corporate Leadership Council’s study on New Tools for Managing Workforce Stability.

References

  1. ‘Corporate Amnesia: Keeping know-how in the company’, Butterworth Heinemann ISBN 0-7506-3949-0 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corporate-Amnesia-Keeping-know-how-Know-how/dp/0750639490)
  2. Corporate Amnesia book website
  3. 'Corporate DNA: Using Organizational Memory to improve poor decision-making', Gower Publishing ISBN 0-566-08681-6 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corporate-DNA-Organizational-Improve-Decision-Making/dp/0566086816


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