From an external consultant who seemed to have no real knowledge of the field.

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Mobility, strong analytics (both internal and external) and a wide gamut of add-on knowledge-driven applications can really enhance the social media experience for your consumers.

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In many knowledge work companies, 30% of the workforces is external to the company itself and that number is growing, Grainger says.

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Late last year Intel published, The Future of Knowledge Work, a whitepaper resulting from extensive internal and external research and a Future of the Workplace Summit held in Haifa, Israel.

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One is external to the state: the global economy has become a much more knowledge-intensive place, with even the oil business turning into a high-tech industry, so Texas needs more and better universities and schools.

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But it is helpful knowledge because it enables Mophie to design a series of iPhone 5 (external) charging accessories that will be ready in time for the new handset.

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Instead this can be handled by external specialists, as firms embrace business process innovation to create more efficient organisations that can retain and manage their knowledge effectively.

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