0 this paper investigates headquarters' value-adding role in knowledge transfer. transfer performance is considered in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness, and a model that includes headquarters' distribution of decision-making rights, resource allocation, and direct intervention is tested on 141 innovation transfer projects.
0The findings indicate that headquarters have both positive and negative influences on the efficiency and effectiveness of transfer processes. There is thus a need to consider the inherent trade-offs in the choices made in promoting knowledge transfer.
Knowledge about cyclic influences and their interdependencies supports the prediction of future changes in manufacturing systems and is thus highly valuable for manufacturing planning. Based on system dynamics and former research regarding cycle management, a dynamic cycle network is developed. This enables quantitative analysis and comprehension of cycles within the network, helping to understand future behavior of cyclic influences in manufacturing and to anticipate their potential effects. The results contribute to the development of a planning framework for continuous production planning by further elaborating the innovative concept of cycle management in manufacturing.
The innovation process of Product Service Systems (PSS) is affected by a vast number of internal and external influences. Especially the management of timely or structurally repeating influences, so called cycles, shows a great potential for improving the innovation process. Thereby two types of cycles can be differentiated. Firstly, internal cycles during the innovation process itself going from engineering change cycles, to manufacturing resource cycles or even team building processes. Secondly, the external, environmental cycles that have an impact on the innovation process, i.e. government-and customer-related demands and dependencies. A lot of these dependencies, most likely external ones, contain uncertainties, that have to be handled for successful innovation of PSS.To cope with these struggles, methods and tools have to be developed, to allow analysis and forecast of the cycles in the innovation process. Especially the high degree of cross-linking between the different cycles indicates the need of integrated modeling and analysis. An interdisciplinary cycle network of 30 relevant cycles and external influences as well as 51 interconnections so far, was set up in a System Dynamics environment. Though not all influences can be determined yet, the created causal loop diagram can already serve as a framework for analyzing the innovation process of PSSs and support deeper understanding of the interdisciplinary interdependencies.
An aging workforce presents a serious threat to the stability and continuity of an organization as that workforce takes with it into retirement years of experience, insight, and knowledge. As a result, organizations are faced with the challenge of how to mitigate the loss of intellectual capital during the process of transferring knowledge to the remaining workforce in order to maximize the chances of continued organizational success. This paper offers a practical method of application for intra-organizational professional development that seeks to mitigate lost knowledge by introducing a process referred to as Accelerated Experiential Exposure, as well as an epistemological frame from which it is presented, referred to as Replicative Indwelling.
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