How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
The problem of knowing what your co-workers know
LAST MONTH Odysseus became the first American spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon in more than 50 years. The mission, a collaboration between NASA and a private firm called Intuitive Machines, can be counted a partial success: the craft did send back images even though its landing did not go to plan. Things might have gone better still if it had not been so long since NASA last visited the Moon. Experience usually makes things go more smoothly.
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Business March 9th 2024
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- More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good
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- How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
- Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
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