The
Workshop is now open for online and in-class
Teaching and Learning, Business/Management
and Research Curriculum and Learning Contents
Subscriptions, available to International Business
Schools, Universities, Management Development
and Training Centres and their Students and
Staff throughout the world.
Knowledge
Transfer in
the fields of Organizational
development and organizational
learning, is the practical problem
of getting a packet of knowledge from
one part of the organization to another
(or all other) parts of the organization.
It is considered to be more than just
a communications problem.
If it were merely that, then a memorandum,
an e-mail or
a meeting would accomplish the knowledge
transfer. Knowledge transfer is more
complex because (1) knowledge resides
in organizational members, tools, tasks,
and their subnetworks (Argote & Ingram
2000) and (2) much knowledge in organizations
is tacit or hard to articulate (Nonaka & Takeuchi
1995).
Argote & Ingram
(1999) define knowledge transfer as "the
process through which one unit (e.g.,
group, department, or division) is
affected by the experience of another" (p
151). They further point out the transfer
of organizational knowledge (i.e.,
routine or best practices) can be observed
through changes in the knowledge or
performance of recipient units. The
transfer of organizational knowledge,
such as best practices, can be quite
difficult to achieve (Szulanski
1996).
Three
related concepts are "knowledge utilization," "research
utilization" and "implementation," which
were described by Greenhalgh et al,
2004) in the context of health sciences.
Building
on the original 'Strategios' strategy
and research site which was created in
the mid 1990s for the use of business and
management students, teachers and all other
members of the scholarly community on the
Internet and still continues
being maintained by Finntrack.
Finntrack
and its consultancy partners, British
Consultancy Ltd and British
Consultancy Charitable Trust, today offer business,
management and IT curriculum, learning contents, staff
training programmes and free learner support units
together with online and in-class teaching services.
The fully
customised, module specific teaching and
learning resources include comprehensive
learning contents and learner support units
which are available to all recognized business
schools, colleges, universities, training
centres, corporations and public sector organisations
throughout the world from the 'learning centres'
listed on the Online
Campus page and below:
Our
work in instructional technology has been
identified as having high potential as
a web-based teaching and learning resource
and recently been peer reviewed and published
in MERLOT (Multimedia
Educational Resources for Learning and
Online Teaching). The MERLOT project
is an international initiative enabling
faculty to integrate technology into higher
education.
MERLOT
is supported by 27 systems and institutions
of higher education as well as the National
Science Foundation. MERLOT is
also endorsed by Educational
Learning Initiative (ELI) of EDUCAUSE.
Over 150 faculty members from these institutions
have been performing the peer review of
instructional technology, modeled after
the peer review process for research and
scholarship.
Finntrack,
British
Consultancy and British
Consultancy Charitable Trust are jointly responsible
for the institutional and organisational marketing
of all Finntrack's business, management and IT related
curriculum and learning contents, the BLC
and BCCT advisory and consultancy services together
with the marketing
activities for all existing
and future programme and course/module specific teaching
plans. outlines.
In
keeping with the ethos of the Internet, Finntrack
respects the copyrights of owners of the
site links or material used on www.finntrack.com
and www.finntrack.com/strategios and expects
the users of their domains to respect their
own and all third party intellectual rights
when using any material from these sites.The
ordinal known author or designer of the material
used on www.finntrack.com and www.finntrack.com/strategios
can be obtained by clicking on the relevant
hypertext or image.
