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Improving Competitiveness Aligning Knowledge and Talent Management with Strategic Goals

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Abstract

In recent years, knowledge management has attracted the attention of the software engineering community. The ability of a software development organization to manage the knowledge that resides in its employees provides it the opportunity to improve its productivity, up to the point of obtaining a sustainable competitive advantage over other organizations. However, achieving a successful implementation of a knowledge management initiative is not trivial. Sometimes when a knowledge management initiative is addressed in a software engineering organization the main error that is committed is to focus most of the efforts in defining a technological solution ignoring human aspects of great importance as talent. This paper proposes a framework intended to allow software engineering organizations to develop and implement knowledge and talent management strategies in a comprehensive and systematic way in order to help these organizations to achieve their business goals. The framework proposed by authors is illustrated using a real case study where it was used in a software development organization to improve work-teams’ productivity.

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    Arturo Mora-Soto, Cuauhtemoc Lemus-Olalde & Carlos A. Carballo

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  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Coimbra, Portugal

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Mora-Soto, A., Lemus-Olalde, C., Carballo, C.A. (2017). Improving Competitiveness Aligning Knowledge and Talent Management with Strategic Goals. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., San Feliu, T., Peña, A. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48523-2_15

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