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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. About the Author.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. In recreating your organization, the way you manage knowledge is crucial. Knowledge retention. [4]. ”, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. Knowledge management Mergers & acquisitions Collaboration Healthcare' But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

Excessive use of post-employment restrictions or overly aggressive trade secret litigation against former employees amounts to giving the legal department too much control over human resources policy. The result may be less innovation and a depletion of human capital. Government Knowledge management Talent management'

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. Another ripe area for innovation is knowledge management and the impact of social media. In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Soft-wiring relies on more informal, organic, voluntary, temporary, or one-off instruments, such as an ad-hoc multi-dimensional task force, an annual corporate planning cycle, an advisory council, a central coordination function, or a company-wide knowledge management system. For example, the U.S.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

Why would any organization set up a system that discourages experts from sharing their business-critical knowledge? Obviously, no leader deliberately set out to do such a thing. Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay.