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How to Improve Employee Productivity with Knowledge

Employee productivity is the key to competence growth and improved competitive advantage. Increasing individual productivity in the era of creative and abstract tasks is a hurdle for many businesses. One of the ways to overcome it is to use knowledge management for productivity.

Knowledge tightly interacts with productivity and helps decision-makers to measure performance across departments. A simple example is data visualization used for many purposes. But knowledge use is one of many components of knowledge management.

To keep work flawless and productive, managers must consider how knowledge is discovered, stored, organized, and distributed. Some ways to make knowledge work for productivity include:

  • Establishing a knowledge-sharing culture;
  • Introducing knowledge management software;
  • Assigning key experts and process owners;
  • Prioritizing productive information types.

With adequately managed knowledge, employees will use resources and working hours effectively, leading to timely delivery and higher quality of produced work. Read about ways to increase employee productivity in detail in our new article How to Improve Employee Productivity with Knowledge.

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