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What are the four specific types of business challenges to global business systems? Which one do you think will be easiest to solve? Why?
 
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How can knowledge be gathered from the personal and undocumented expertise of professionals within a firm? List at least four ways to gather and disseminate such knowledge.
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Standards: Different EDI, e-mail, telecommunications standards.
 Reliability: Phone networks are not uniformly reliable.
 Speed: Different data transfer speeds; many are slower than United States speeds.
 Personnel: Shortages of skilled consultants.
Answers will vary, but an example answer is: The easiest challenge to solve is that of standards because of the growth of universal, Internet-based standards, Web services, and component-based programming.

Answer to Question 2

The expertise and experience of firm employees can be gathered by documenting their experience through documenting best practices and frequently asked questions. You can also develop a referral system by providing a way for employees to find a company expert for the solution they are looking for. Other tools you can use include best-practices documents, FAQs, collaboration tools, wikis, and blogs for helping gather and disseminate tacit knowledge.





 

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