Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

This view of learning was the key driver of “knowledge management systems” that came into vogue in the 1990’s. We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.”

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge Efficiency Directory 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Is your company investing in expensive knowledge management systems that are useless for making big, strategy decisions? The problem is that most current knowledge management efforts merely inventory the company's knowledge, without parsing out the knowledge that is strategically relevant.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Tacit Knowledge Management Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

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.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge McKinsey Core Competence Document 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

How To 72

How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Last Monday, the Management Innovation Exchange announced the winners of the first MBA M-Prize, which I wrote about some months ago. From 114 entries (or hacks) that offered proposals for correcting flaws in current management practice, the judges initially narrowed down the field to seven finalists.

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Proposal Brainstorming Technology 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program. Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Intellectual Capital 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, to fully appreciate the forces at work in executive education, we need to complement this view with another body of theory from knowledge management. Education is basically that — knowledge sharing. We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing. Nitin Nohria, Tom Tierney (then-CEO of Bain & Co.)

Education 8

Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. Technology platforms here and there sprout up to help them do it better, but even those platforms become commodities if engagement-driven efforts are not handled and managed expertly, in an always-on way.

Advertising 15

Advertising Tacit Knowledge Media Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy. As the company grows, its management skills need to evolve. Ensure knowledge capture and transfer. Break away from the past.

CEO 8

CEO Tacit Knowledge Chief Technology Officer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. It consists of five key actions. Embracing positive indifference.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. My experience suggests that outposts fail for a variety of reasons. Propagate intelligence and insights.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

For example, to build capacities for managing stress, watch a series of TED Talks that inspire and educate on successful strategies for stress reduction. Propose a self-managed instructional course for your team or work group, and share responsibility for designing and leading the various elements of the course.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? This is the key insight smart managers really seek.

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Chinese managers and owners in Chinese-owned businesses play by the same rules. But when a Chinese manager joins a foreign-owned firm, she will have to learn to play by new rules, because her career and salary now depend on foreign supervisors based in faraway places such as New York or London and who come to China no more than twice a year.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Resistance Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Through countless hours of collaboration with the same coworkers and teams, veteran employees gain tacit knowledge that allows them to predict how colleagues will behave and anticipate how they will respond to everyday situations. Managers can help employees find ways to do more of what they’re good at.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Long-term Call Center Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. For another, Prime had embedded a great deal of "tacit knowledge" into some of the components — knowledge that was more "know why" than pure know-how. Yes, the Blue Sky managers said. One person wasn't smiling.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? This is the key insight smart managers really seek.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Trends Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Intuition is a potent source of information, and research has demonstrated that among experts, tacit knowledge and gut instinct lead to rapid and effective decision-making. So while fear is a natural state for an entrepreneur, the ability to anticipate and manage it is a vital skill.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Those processes are then adopted across all sites.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Those processes are then adopted across all sites.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Both steps require tacit knowledge. Creating printable files involves two steps: creating a three-dimensional volume model that can be printed, and “slicing” that volume model in the best possible way to avoid material wastage and prevent printing errors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Tacit Knowledge Contract Manufacturing Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. The contretemps over this appointment brings to mind three classic management issues, and research about them that is too often ignored.

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

Additionally, high levels of turnover in an organization’s top management team are very likely to make the organization as a whole perform substantially worse. Trust and understanding can only build over time. The dysfunctions of the White House staff have been apparent during the first 15 months of the Trump presidency.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Tacit Knowledge Learning-by-Doing Talent Management 8