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[ID#] 45 [Author(s)] Dr Amit Mitra; Ms Mildred Brown [Abstract] Increasing uncertainties with regard to differentiated competitive advantages related to geographic locations along with rising costs of skilled labour has meant that managers are expected to maximise output out of diminishing resources. Simultaneous to a rise in location related uncertainties, there has been a change in the type of resources that managers have traditionally been accustomed to depend upon. A significant proportion of current resources have become intangible, present in the skills and knowledge of the workforce. Skill and knowledge intensive sectors like the electronics manufacturing industry have also been affected by the pervasive shift in resources. In the recent past, the electronics manufacturing industries have generally flourished. Competitive advantages that have contributed to progress of the electronics-manufacturing sector have been by virtue of inter alia, reducing lead times in production, shortening product life cycles and expanding product ranges. It is now clear that these advances have a connection to flexibility and adaptability of existing knowledge systems. With large production facilities, organisations are increasingly reliant on formal knowledge systems. The present paper, firstly, tries to evaluate the context developing knowledge systems. The second objective of the paper is to relate to such knowledge system development through obtained evidence within a particular electronics-components manufacturing company. For the purposes of the present paper, the company shall be referred to as Lexmarc. [Title] 
Knowledge Systems for Dynamic Environments: Case within Manufacturing Industry.
UKAIS 2003: Abstracts
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