Challenges
What complicates knowledge transfer? There are many factors, including:
- The inability to recognize & articulate "compiled" or highly intuitive competencies—tacit knowledge idea
- Geography or distance
- Limitations of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
- Lack of a shared/superordinate social identity
- Language
- Areas of expertise
- Internal conflicts (for example, professional territoriality)
- Generational differences
- Union-management relations
- Incentives
- The use of visual representations to transfer knowledge (Knowledge visualization)
- Problems with sharing beliefs, assumptions, heuristics and cultural norms.
- Previous exposure or experience with something.
- Misconceptions
- Faulty information
- Organizational culture non-conducive to knowledge sharing (the "Knowledge is power" culture)
- Motivational issues
- Lack of trust
- Capability
Everett Rogers pioneered diffusion of innovations theory, presenting a research-based model for how and why individuals and social networks adopt new ideas, practices and products. In anthropology, the concept of diffusion also explores the spread of ideas among cultures.
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