Knowledge transfer: an overview of the models and technologies

The article analyzes the models and technologies of knowledge transfer, developed in the research of organizational processes at the enterprise. The practical necessity in the methods, allowing to reveal those components of knowledge, which determine the specificity and know-how of the enterprise, is shown. Proposed tools developed under the paradigm of perceived quality. Its application is aimed at identifying and transferring the knowledge of a specialist that determines his individual experience of performing specific practical activities. The process of identifying and transferring experience is interpreted as the “designing” of its perceived quality. The result of the designing is a technological tool that allows the reproduction and presentation of the most important components of the experience so as to form the corresponding perceived quality in other subject

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