Diagnosing and remedying knowledge gap between enterprises

Abstract

In the era of knowledge to win, this article introduces two "knowledge distance" concepts, and analyses its adaptabilities to diagnose knowledge gap. Based on such analysis, this paper sets up a general and clear path model on making up for knowledge gap. In final, by virtue of some cases, the paper sums up such three basic security mechanisms to make up knowledge gap as: knowledge learning, knowledge innovating and knowledge sharing. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.