C.N. Parkinson, the management scholar famous for his “Parkinson’s Law,” said, “A consultant’s work is like that of a honeybee. - Parkinson
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Pollen (knowledge) found in one company (flower) is carried to other flowers (companies) to produce fruit (value).
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Knowledge liquidity creates value. Fluidization of illiquid things basically creates value. This is one of the concrete examples.
The concept of “information stickiness” (Eric von Hippel)
- The solution to the dilemma I wrote about in The Dilemma of Knowledge Use and Acquisition is similar to this one.
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