Assessing your company's knowledge management style

The growing intensity and dynamism of competition has forced firms to focus their long term strategies on resources and capabilities rather than served markets. Intellectual capital has emerged as one of the firm's critical resources, and the ability to build and exploit intellectual capital its most strategically significant capability. Any attempt to exploit intellectual capital for competitive advantage must be based on a sound understanding of an organization's current approach to acquiring, sharing and utilizing knowledge. In this article the authors explore the key dimensions of organizational knowledge and develop a framework which distinguishes different knowledge profiles. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.