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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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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

This counterintuitive strategy is more than good PR — although that too — say several IP experts. In fact, it reflects a keen understanding of both innovation and talent. Access to the patents doesn’t ensure that a competitor can execute on an equally innovative product. Innovation Tech industry Technology'

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Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management?

Harvard Business Review

Is your company investing in expensive knowledge management systems that are useless for making big, strategy decisions? The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. To codifying tacit knowledge? To accessing complementary knowledge from outside?

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Executive Education Is Ripe for Online Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Codifiable knowledge — that which can be captured electronically without losing its meaning — can be stored on the web and shared with many, without the original author (professor) being involved in the sharing (teaching). We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past. Become a remarkable capability innovator, designing and developing your own practices that give you prowess no one else matches.

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