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March 2023 Issue of Design007 Magazine Available Now
March 8, 2023 | I-Connect007Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
Tribal knowledge is present in every organization, no matter what size. It isn’t always a bad thing, but there’s a lot of inaccurate tribal knowledge floating around out there. How do we distinguish between documented and undocumented facts?
In the March issue of Design007 Magazine, our expert contributors will provide readers with the tools and methodologies needed to identify tribal knowledge, as well as when to question such information, and how to document and transform it into a process.
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