Learning Through Knowledge Management

 

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Process approaches for managementof knowledge and learning

Present-day corporations have become enamoured with processled organization design. It is easy to see why. In the modern day there is general acceptance that the idea of a functional department handing over to another functional department is not the way to organize for work. For instance, gone are the days when the product designer's work was over with the delivery of a set of drawings for the manufacturing managers to make. The ‘handover’ practice of yesteryear recalls situations in which manufacturing personnel would be, quite justifiably, appalled at being asked to produce to a design that gave no consideration to the manufacturing process, product quantities, tooling, etc. ...