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What is an intranet? The definitive explanation

ThoughtFarmer

It’s a website, communications channel, knowledge management tool, culture tool, and collaboration platform. It helps people work better by combining the best features of wikis, blogs, document and content management systems. was popularized in 2004, it represented a huge shift in the way digital information was managed.

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Most Important Developments for 1/22

GetFive

Just the act of talking with people can reassure them that you care about how well the team is functioning. Since 2004, Google engineers get to spend 20% of their time pursuing projects of their own creation. Well it has been a journey, so let me give you some perspective. And this experiment has produced incredible results.

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What is Organizational Learning (And Why is it Important?)

Zenefits

When an individual worker learns new skills or ideas , productivity and performance generally improve. Well, organizational learning is the organization’s process of gaining knowledge related to its function and using that knowledge to adapt to a changing environment and increase efficiency. Transfer the knowledge.

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4 Great Ways to Conduct Peer Assists: Transferring Knowledge Effectively

Conversation Matters

Peer Assists are specifically designed to transfer tacit knowledge, so in all of the examples it is primarily tacit knowledge is being transferred, that is, knowledge that is drawn from the Assisters’ own wealth of experience in similar situations. The group decides they need to develop criteria for drilling the Barden well.

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Part II “We Know More Than We Can Say: How to Use Tacit Knowledge

Conversation Matters

Rob Cross and Lee Sproull conducted a study in 2004 that looked at the benefits that accrued to people who had a conversation with a colleague about a relatively ambiguous issue each was facing. These seekers were project managers in a large consulting firm. By the end of the study in 2002 the death rate had fallen to 2.1