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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Develop and foster agile learners – Much has been written about the importance of being open to new thinking and adaptable to the changing environment, and Osborne believes that leaders need to cultivate such a mindset in employees if a learning culture is to be developed.

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Is Business Travel Key To Economic Growth?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers hypothesize that the transfer of tacit knowledge and know how is crucial to economic growth, and business travel plays a key part in that process of repetition, imitation, and feedback. A permanent shutdown of this channel would probably imply a double-digit loss in global GDP,” the researchers explain.

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How Employee Networks Can Support Sustainability Initiatives

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation comes from people in different units who have knowledge that is new to you. A number of staff from The Nature Conservancy’s North American team were surveyed, with each employee also quizzed to understand the professional development they and their colleagues received. ” Viral sustainability.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Stop Obsessing Over Intellectual Property Rights

Harvard Business Review

Since knowledge assets do not each exist in isolation from one another, a powerful strategic opportunity lies in binding your tacit knowledge assets to your structured knowledge. Your ownership of the resulting unique knowledge network generates the rent.

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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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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

Last Monday, the Management Innovation Exchange announced the winners of the first MBA M-Prize, which I wrote about some months ago. Both Roth and Tandon had worked as management consultants before seeking their MBAs, and they understand that tacit knowledge is critical for professional service companies.