Know the Enemies of Your Business

Human Barriers to
Knowledge Sharing and Transfer

▪ Knowledge transfer is often a case of who you know versus what you know.

▪ Sharing your best thinking, data, information, understanding, and opinion with others diminishes your personal competitive advantage.

▪ Use of other people's knowledge is often resisted, in particular the 'not-invented-here syndrome' is difficult to brake down.

▪ Improving by synthesizing new ideas continuously while purging yesterday's conventional wisdom is difficult due to resistance to change.

16 Ways to Prevent Commercialization of University R&D Results

Inner Enemies of Business

Enemies of Innovation

Coherence

Coherence is a key for the organizational integration. It fosters better teamwork and creates means and willingness to cross organizational boundaries, to work as a team. Coherence facilitates knowledge-sharing, which in turn enhances corporation's overall capabilities... More

High LQ Culture

Knowledge Communities

Holistic Innovation

T-shaped Master of Systemic Innovation

How To Manage Tacit Knowledge

Managing tacit knowledge is a significant challenge in the business world – and it requires more than mere awareness of barriers. Mechanisms by which collective tacit knowledge is created and tapped include brainstorming, gamification, loose-tight leadership, and knowledge communities... More

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge as Competitive Advantage

Knowledge-based Enterprise

Organizational IQ

"Reward people for contributing to a full flow of knowledge." ~ Bill Gates, Microsoft

"Reward and celebrate new ideas to encourage others to want contribute as well." ~ Jack Welch, GE

"Inspire advocates. Mental diversity is very important – you need individuals who celebrate different viewpoints."  
~ Tom Kelley, IDEO