Chapter 21

Build a Knowledge Management System

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

—Steve Jobs

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Business Dictionary.com defines knowledge management as strategies and processes designed to identify, capture, structure, value, leverage, and share an organization’s intellectual assets to enhance its performance and competitiveness. John Girard & JoAnn Girard describe knowledge management as the creation, transfer, and exchange of organizational knowledge to achieve a (competitive) advantage.

Knowledge can be articulated explicitly or manifested implicitly. ...

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