Roundtable

Knowledge partnerships March, 2000

Highlights of a roundtable discussion hosted by Mitre Corporation on March 21, 2000

A knowledge partnership is a knowledge-intensive collaboration or joint venture among internal corporate functions or between a company and an external organization. Leveraging and sharing knowledge (as opposed to simply buying and selling) is a key component of the relationship. Partnerships, alliances, and joint ventures have existed for many years, but new technologies and business models make it faster and easier for partnership participants to share knowledge and even co-create new knowledge-based products and services.

In this roundtable, participants shared common problems and solutions on three topics:

• barriers to knowledge partnering -- what are they, how to overcome them;

• "knowledge facilitation" -- what is it, why it's needed, how it's done;

• collaboration tools -- what's available, how they are being used.

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