This text seeks to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation management. It examines how an organization identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies and translates these into new processes, products and services.

The business and academic communities pay much interest to the concept of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities; that is, how organizations define and differentiate themselves. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation management -- specifically, how an organization identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services.