Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In the Organizational development area of organizational learning, a practical problem is that of knowledge transfer, how to get some packet of knowledge, that exists in one part of the organization, into another (or all other) parts of the organization. It's more than just a communications problem. If it were merely that, then a memo, an e-mail or a meeting would accomplish the knowledge transfer. Table of contents 1 Challenges 2 Process 3 Links 4 Also see Challenges What complicates knowledge transfer? There are many factors, including: geography language areas of expertise internal conflicts (e.g., professional territoriality) generational differences union-management relations incentives Process identifying the key knowledge holders within the organization motivating them to share designing a sharing mechanism to facilitate the transfer executing the transfer plan measuring to ensure the transfer applying the knowledge transferred Links http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/Willpope.pdf Also see Knowledge Management instructional theory This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.