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Knowledge Management Services

Topics

 

Readings:

HBS: Knowledge Management at Ernst & Young. Reprint M-291.

HBR, Mar-Apr 99: Hansen, Morten T., Nohria, Nitin and Tierney, Thomas.: What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge. Reprint 99206.

California Management Review, Winter 1999. Sarvary, Miklos. Knowledge Management and Competition in the Consulting Industry. pp. 95-107.

Background on the Case

    The case reviews the E&Y's efforts to build a firm-wide Knowledge Management (KM) system describing its current structure.  It also looks at what competing consulting firms are doing.  

The Question Set for this case:

1. Is Knowledge Management a sustainable trend or just a fad?

2. How should a KM be evaluated?

3. Does the current KM fit E&Y's needs now and for the near future?

4. How is KM impacting the consulting industry?  

5. How can KM help E&Y achieve sustainable competitive advantage, or can it?

 


           

 


Last Updated by Norma Sutcliffe on 10/27/99 .