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Productivity of knowledge - an area needing improvement
The Haufe-Group identified striking deficits in a 2014 study on the productivity of knowledge in corporations.
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51% of the managers participating in the study said "No" to the sentence "We use knowledge productively.".
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90% see yet a connection between innovation/competitiveness and knowledge productivity.
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57%, however, admit that one would not know, how to use knowledge productively within the corporation.
On the individual level the situation is specifically highlighted.
27% of the managers asked quote, that they do not have access to the right information for their job.
The reasons are seen in the following...
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71% say that though the knowledge is available within the company, one would not know where, however.
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Also 71% deem the search for the available knowledge as far too complicated.
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In 65% of the cases, there are useful storage processes missing.
And how does it work nevertheless?
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65% ask their colleagues.
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In 84% of the companies knowledge is transferred by senior colleagues to the juniors.
In short: Knowledge productivity is an area needing improvement within corporations.