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Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management?

Harvard Business Review

In our simplified format, knowledge assets map along two dimensions. The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. Over time, much of this tacit knowledge can be made more codified, and therefore more easily shared and understood by others. Figure 1: Map A.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. It consists of five key actions. Embracing positive indifference.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question. “We

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. ” Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

Especially given the fragmentation of the ”splinternet,” dramatized by the development of a distinct internet ecology in China, this is currently a matter of much concern. But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.