Organizations in the Knowledge Era

"Knowledge is the new basis for competitiveness in the post-capitalist society?

Peter Drucker

...? Is of great importance to the common people be given the opportunity to experience consciously and intelligently the efforts and results of scientific research. It is sufficient that each result is obtained and applied by specialists in the field. Restrict the core of knowledge to a small group off the philosophical spirit of a people and leads to spiritual poverty? ...

Albert Einstein

We are in an era where knowledge is really the determining factor in all those activities that require skills, abilities, actions, strategies that lead organizations to play a decisive role in scenarios in which they operate and where their human resource management are fully identified with the techniques in this tool that demands the knowledge society.

We know that a company is actually a community of people organized to produce something, its production capacity usually depends on what you know and the knowledge they have acquired in their routines and production gear. The tangible assets of a company have limited value unless people know what to do with them.

It is therefore not surprising when he says, that the great change it is making the transition from industrial society paradigm to the paradigm of knowledge society., Which demand new administrative tools, effective, guaranteed results beneficial to the organization .

In this regard, wikilearning tells us that it has a strong presence, the generation of added value through knowledge, it is innovation and improvement of products and services company that comes from the intelligence and creativity of people.

Is added to the respect that there is a growing conviction that knowing about knowledge is essential for business success these days and possibly for their survival. Even before there was talk of "core competencies?, The" organizations?, The "strategic planning?, Good managers valued the experience and know-how of its employees - that is knowledge. However, only recently, is being realized that it takes more than a random method and even involuntarily to manage knowledge if you want to succeed in today's economy and tomorrow.

Companies should not overlook the new management topics that administrative science has generated as a result of competitive activities in the current scenario in which globalization has affected determinant requiring companies to submit, offer quality products that meet consumer needs .

Wikilearning gives us also the disappointment of the fashions, theories, nostrums and silver bullets has led companies to look for something more basic, something irreducible and vital to the performance, productivity and innovation. As a result, the executive community has realized that what an organization and its employees know the basis of the functioning of the organization

It requires knowing how to properly use the human capital owned by the company, be vigilant, attentive to the knowledge needed to ensure effective performance, productive.

In this age of knowledge, very important to give way to innovation, to make this manifest and producing new ideas, actions that benefit the company and all its actors.

M. Martiarena tell us about it, we forget that the application of innovation is a necessity for all strata of society and should be aimed at improving social and economic conditions of the population. The fact that there are models in which innovation is closely linked to the generation of economic wealth is a narrow view of the concept.

In society there are different actors, in addition to the state and the companies that are the driving forces of creation and absorption of knowledge by society as a whole and incorporating innovation in its management, its processes and products. Examples include NGOs, private research institutions, groups of socially-based enterprises, among others. I will call them.

The ability of a country's technological change and efficiency to compete globally in products and services do not depend simply on R & D capacity that the country has. It depends on the existence of a culture of innovation in its population, particularly in the levels of discussion and the way in which resources are managed and organized, both at the state, as in business and OSs. The creation of innovation systems can allow a social group with limited resources make rapid progress through an appropriate mix of domestic and imported technology with the generation, adaptation and local improvements.

Essentially the idea of ​​system of innovation (SI) believes that the ability to be developed by the whole society to take ownership of knowledge is more than the sum of the activities of different sectors, it is the result of the synergy that comes from interactions the different actors.

All in all a SI is considered important because of its distribution power, this is the system's ability to select and distribute existing knowledge to their recombination.

Finally, keep in mind the statement by José Enebral, there is no doubt that we live in the information society and knowledge, the so-called emerging knowledge economy and innovation, continuous learning is inexcusable, that the innovation is to be a permanent requirement that skilled workers are a solid asset for business, the idea of ​​learning organization is based on collective learning and knowledge management ... But to determine the relationship between managers and workers, we preach leader-follower models increasingly complex, as if the new Knowledge Worker profile fit into the idea of ​​a follower, as if the rising star in the new economy was the leadership instead of knowledge.

In large and medium enterprises continue to refer to as human resources employees, associates, subordinates or indirectly, as followers of other individuals whom we call leaders. There may have been, and there is still some basis for doing so, but the cultural changes and the emerging economy people seem to demand the spotlight, the dimension, which may have been stolen in the past. New profiles and more professional managers and workers seem to open space in the century, and perhaps we should reconsider and in some cases the very language used, if not-and if it does not sound revolutionary or heretical, the life itself of some of the many models leaders-followers that are offered. What is the rising value in the emerging economy?.

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