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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Knowledge Management and Learning

 

Seeding Knowledge Solutions Before, During, and After [April 2010]

By Olivier Serrat

http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/seeding-knowledge-solutions-before-during-after.pdf

[full-text, 8 pages]

 

See Addition "Knowledge Solutions" at

http://www.adb.org/Knowledge-Management/whatsold.asp

 

[excerpt]

The Age of Competence

 

Competence is the state or quality of being adequately or well qualified to deliver a specific task, action, or function successfully. It is also a specific range of knowledge, skills, or behaviors utilized to improve performance.

 

Today, sustainable competitive advantage derives from strenuous efforts to identify, cultivate, and exploit an organization’s core competencies, the tangible fruits of which are composite packages of products and services that anticipate and meet demand. (Yesteryear, instead of strengthening the roots of competitiveness, the accent was placed on business units. Innately, given their defining characteristics, business units under-invest in core competencies, incarcerate resources, and bind innovation—when they do not stifle it.)

 

Core competencies are integrated and harmonized abilities that provide potential access to markets; create and deliver value to audiences, clients, and partners there; and are difficult for competitors to imitate. They depend on relentless design of strategic architecture, deployment of competence carriers, and commitment to collaborate across silos. They are the product of collective learning.

 

AND MUCH MORE....

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