The expense of failed knowledge transfer

Microsoft's Rod Caron has posted an interesting article on building online communities "to facilitate Knowledge Transfer". It includes the great quotes: "shipping the knowledge is just as important as shipping the product", "a product without knowledge is support waiting to happen" and "It's very much a case of 'pay now, or pay more later' when it comes to product and technology knowledge transfer."

Link to article "Community Facilitates Knowledge Transfer" http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2007/03/27/1970039.aspx

Link to article "Facilitate Knowledge Transfer in Online Communities"

http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2007/03/22/facilitate-knowledge-transfer-in-online-communities.aspx

As we posted earlier in the week, Cherryleaf is involved in setting up a European Community-funded project aimed at improving small and medium sized enterprise involvement in Life Science projects.

Creating online social networks

Cherryleaf is involved, through our sister company, in a European Community funded project starting in Q2 2007. It aims to improve small and medium sized enterprise involvement in Life Science projects.

It introduces a new concept of online networking that supports the location, fast connection and effective discussion between distant parties, living in different time zones, speaking different languages and representing different cultures. It will function as a social network of people who know (and trust) other people, exactly as it is in real life.