5 types of knowledge transfer

• Serial knowledge : the knowledge that a team has gained from doing one task in one setting is transferred to the next time that does the task in a different setting
• Near transfer  : explicit knowledge a team has gained from doing a frequent and repeated task is reuse by other teams doing very similar work.
• Far transfer : tacit knowledge that a team has gained from doing a non-routine task is made available to other teams doing similar work in another part of the organization.
• Strategic transfer : the collective knowledge of the organization is needed to accomplish a strategic task that occurs infrequently but which is critical to the organization.
• Expert transfer : a team facing a technical question beyond the scope of its own knowledge seeks the expertise of others in the organization.

Knowledge management in organization

• Corporate memory : an explicit, disembodied, persistent representation of knowledge and information in an organization.
• Corporate knowledge management : the process which allows to locate and make visible the corporate knowledge, be able to keep it, access it and actualize it, know how to diffuse it and better use it, put it in synergy and valorize it.