How many of the real assets of your acquisition organization walk out the door every evening? Strong, performance-oriented organizations place a premium on people, and the institutional knowledge capital they carry around in their heads.

Establishing and employing effective processes and infrastructure to facilitate capture, transfer and use of institutional knowledge flattens learning curves, accelerates operations, increases productivity and improves quality to enable organizational performance at levels that will sustain long-term success. Knowledge management (KM) tools - both on-line and operating practices -- are essential ingredients in building and maintaining a world-class acquisition workforce because they can delineate the path to improving business practices, developing personnel, identifying innovation, and ensuring your agency has the resources to achieve its mission. Your team's experience is critical, and so is the ability to capture and reuse that experience.

There's a lot of knowledge out there -- so how much of it is really relevant to your agency mission? Aligning your workforce strategies to the overall agency mission lays the foundation for tapping into a variety of knowledge sources to create an organization that shares information, uses lessons learned, creates effective processes and policies, and enhances the ability of every team member to contribute to their full potential. Just as important, developing the learning capacity of the organization strengthens the ability of individual members to discern relevance and apply the right knowledge to future situations... and that creates an acquisition workforce with limitless potential.