| Abstract [eng] |
There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies, that is, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this movement has fragmented into a number of related fields with subtle differences in focus: knowledge management — concerned with how organisations identify, share and exploit their internal competencies, in particular the knowledge of individuals; organizational learning — on the relationship between individual and organizational knowledge and how organisations acquire new competencies; strategic management — how competencies can be assessed, and how these contribute to performance; and innovation management — on how such competencies are translated into new processes, products and services. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how knowledge management fosters the development of organization’s strategic competencies. In order to reach the purpose of the paper, tasks are raised as follows: - To identify the relationships between the knowledge management, strategic competencies, innovation management and organizational learning. - To discuss the conception of competency and arising problems of its determination, to analyze the main organizational competency models; - To identify the factors that influence the development of organizational competencies and to design competency development opportunities under the base of knowledge management; - With the help of research taken at one of organizations, to identify the strategic competencies and its development potential in that organization. This paper consists of three sections. The first two are sacred to literature analysis and the third one describes the research which was carried out in “Storebrand Livsforsikring”. |
