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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

This month the ASQ is asking Influential Voices to discuss methods to aid in sharing knowledge. Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. My career has been largely shaped by the pursuit of better ways to communicate.

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Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

Harvard Business Review

They left when their job wasn’t enjoyable, their strengths weren’t being used, and they weren’t growing in their careers. They found their work enjoyable 31% more often, used their strengths 33% more often, and expressed 37% more confidence that they were gaining the skills and experiences they need to develop their careers.

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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

For example, IBM got a court to enjoin a former IBM executive from taking a job at Apple; the executive had managed semiconductor and server engineering at IBM and IBM argued that he would inevitably disclose trade secrets in his new job managing iPod and iPhone engineering.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Given the China site’s historical emphasis on high quality software development, incorporating regular input from customers was seen as contrary to good engineering practice so developers didn’t adopt the approach. In India, workers yearned for regular promotions as tangible indicators of their career growth.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine. If we accepted all such requests, we would end up with 30 “chiefs of staff” or “operations leads.” Exceed client expectations.

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Can’t Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead

Harvard Business Review

Never allow the organization to over-engineer the innovation process. Although an entirely logical response, given that success advances a career and failure kills it, innovation organizers strive to unveil the truth about what really happened — something Pixar , for one, does.