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

Strategy Driven

Executives can enhance knowledge sharing by providing access to knowledge, and stimulate new ideas and knowledge generation, transfer an individual’s knowledge to other members and departments, and improve knowledge capturing, storing, and accumulating, aiming at achieving organizational goals.

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The Need For New Leadership In This COVID-Era

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A new paper from INSEAD highlights how leaders have approached these challenges, and outlines the unique leadership qualities required to deal with wicked problems effectively. In this sense, it’s extremely similar to the PDCA cycle so beloved of lean practitioners, or indeed that of the knowledge management community more generally.

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Research Reveals The Kind Of Work Environment To Encourage Older Workers To Stick Around

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It emerged that those with such high-quality work environments were most likely to delay their retirement. ” Brain drain. . “Jobs like that may be especially appealing to those with less education and who don’t have managerial experience because they may feel the need to keep high-quality jobs more than others.”

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Baldrige Performance Excellence and Using Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines

Each year, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence is presented to a small handful of organizations who have proven themselves worthy by being consistently superior on seven criteria for overall performance excellence. Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management. Strategic Planning.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

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Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The first-generation of the learning organization reached its nadir with the continuous improvement movement launched by W.

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When Good Blooms from Gloom

Michael Lee Stallard

Thanks for your high-quality posts. While these practices may or may not make you economically wealthier, they will most certainly bring you a wealth of even greater value. 2 Comments so far Jack Dean on August 14th, 2010 That was great, Mike. You should add step #5 … go back to step #1. Good suggestion to add step #5!

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5 Steps To Encourage Data Sharing In Scientific Research

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Data sharing among scientific researchers is a crucial aspect of innovation as it helps to spread awareness not only of successes but also failures. Encouraging the practice of data sharing is not always easy however, not least because the citation process tends to encourage researchers to think about themselves first of all.