Chapter 8Working with Consultants
Professional Services – Professional Servants!
So far in this book we have reviewed the importance of knowledge as the basis of the modern economy, looked at the subject of intellectual property rights, at the need for organizations from time to time to buy knowledge as one of a number of knowledge acquisition strategies, and at some of the practicalities of transferring knowledge from external sources into our own organization. The remainder of the book looks at the specifics of buying knowledge from three distinct knowledge sources: consultant organizations, contract research organizations and finally, universities. In point of fact each of these can be thought of as 'consultants' in the broadest sense and ...
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