USING THE SWOT APPROACH FOR THE CODIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN THE SHOUDER FAUCETS CORPORATION
Abstract
Nowadays knowledge is considered as one of the most crucial corporate resources whose proper management and exploitation can provide any corporation with a sustainable competitive advantage. In order to gain confidence regarding the successful implementation of knowledge management in a corporation, the first thing to consider would be selecting and evaluating suitable knowledge management strategies that have been established on proper frameworks and consider for various corporate factors and criterions. Identification of the former factors can help organizations with the designing, planning and implementation of knowledge management. Selecting a suitable knowledge management strategy requires the identification and analysis of several corporate factors. The present paper was an attempt to codify the knowledge management strategies of the Shouder Faucets Corporation with the help of managers and experts of the company. In addition the present paper develops an effective framework for the Shouder faucets Corporation in its pursuit of evaluation and selection of a proper knowledge.
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