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

Strategy Driven

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment. In fact, the key function of knowledge management is to help executives use it for employee development.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Paralleling Jim March’s classic analysis of “exploration vs. exploitation,” short term crowds out long term here as well. Sometimes circumstances make it easy to walk away from old technology and established routines.