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Strategy, Culture, Knowledge Management, Firm Performance: How Are They Linked?

Strategy Driven

Therefore, corporate strategy is an essential requirement of learning culture by which knowledge is shared among people. Further, executives have found that corporate culture impacts knowledge management. Knowledge is shared and synthesized with an aim to providing higher quality products and services.

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Deming on Management: Appreciation for a System

Deming Institute

This is the fourth post in our “Deming on Management” series. This series provides resources for those interested in learning more about particular topics related to W. Edwards Deming’s ideas on management. Previous series posts provided resources on the PDSA cycle, psychology and the red bead experiment.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, Drucker had been anticipating this monumental leap – to an age when people would generate value with their minds more than with their muscle – since at least 1959, when in Landmarks of Tomorrow he first described the rise of “knowledge work.” Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised.

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Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

Harvard Business Review

Especially for today’s knowledge-based work, much of what we need to know we learn from others’ experiences, through what’s called vicarious learning. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively. As a manager for Bain & Co.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Second, large organizations are incremental. Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. All of these were timely, and a few genuinely helpful, but none of them rendered organizations fundamentally more adaptable, innovative, or engaging.