During the next decade, knowledge management lived a modest life, supporting IT professionals wanting to sweep up all that data and store it, and management consultants trying to help companies turn complex processes into competitive advantage.
At this point in time, businesses in most industries need to face the fact that expanding the network infrastructure responsible for hosting computing processes is critical in a competitive marketplace.
Core business processes, and those that enable competitive differentiation, rise to the top of the list.
Whereas in previous decades these traits gave clusters advantages over the big industrial sprawl of competing western economies, these days the processes are too inefficient to be competitive in all but the highest-value segments.
This re-use is critical in that it retains the competitive advantage of existing company processes, and prevents duplication.
Only a small share of federal money is currently allocated through competitive, evidence-based selection processes focused on measurable results.
Orion's competitive edge stems from certain innovative business processes that are available to a network of independent agents via a password-protected extranet, according to Buffington.
As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.
Like those industries, new entrants will embrace those forces to reset the competitive landscape, leapfrogging current technology offerings and processes to create new models that solve for the business problems of tomorrow.
All professors experience the vagaries of school administrations, competitive or antipathetic colleagues, the inexplicable thought processes of grant committees, the threat of a career permanently derailed by strangers, and the occasional helicopter parent and self-entitled student.
If we are to remain competitive we need to maintain innovation in technical equipment and processes and continue the history of innovation that has characterized areas such as Silicon Valley.
With automation technology, organizations can accelerate processes whilst freeing up resources to invest in real innovation, elevating work to focus on remaining competitive and fostering prosperity.
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