Executive Knowledge Management: How Leaders Turn Data into Decisions in the Age of AI is a practical strategic guide for executives and senior leaders who need their organizations to make better decisions, learn faster, and turn knowledge into measurable results. Rather than treating Knowledge Management as a technology initiative, document repository, or back-office function, Cory Lee Cannon presents KM as a management discipline directly connected to decision quality, execution, resilience, innovation, organizational continuity, and performance.
The book examines the full journey from data and information to knowledge, decisions, action, and results. It explores why organizations often struggle to act on what they already know, how knowledge must flow across organizational levels and functions, and what executives must do to establish effective governance, sponsorship, accountability, culture, incentives, and resources. Particular attention is given to artificial intelligence and the need for trusted, authoritative, contextualized, and governed organizational knowledge as a foundation for responsible AI-enabled decision-making.
Designed for application rather than theory alone, the book provides executives with practical models, vignettes, checklists, assessment tools, reflection questions, and an action agenda for building sustainable Knowledge Management capability. It ultimately challenges leaders to close the gap between what their organizations know and what they are actually able to do—creating organizations that learn more effectively, make stronger decisions, adapt faster, and act with greater coherence and confidence.