Knowledge Acquisition

One of the distinctive discovery strategies is being able to take time to acquire both general and specific knowledge concerning your product and or services, the environmnet you are operating in both at a micro level and macro level.

It is basically being able to percieve and interpret business information. This will mean that as a business owner you take deliberate action steps to collect information about your customers; finding a way to collect all demographic information, collating them and presenting them in a format that will help to make the decisions that will drive business growth.

The same process should then be repeated in the areas of products, finance, research and products. An important aspect to add is the development of human resources. Being able to combine and interprete this information is the true beginning of a workable opportunity and will help you as the business owner find a good fit between the context in which you operate in and the strategy the business owner and his team ought to employ.

The above steps and processes need certain skills that need developing. These skills are:

1. Being able to intuitively percieve and interprete knowledge

2. Being able to structure and process cognitive information

How to develop these knowledge structures is left to the owner since he or she knows the inner workings of the specific business. This is always the better thing to do. In a fast paced and dynamic environment business consultants can be invited to guide in the developing of these knowledge structures and setting up systems that ensure they remain standing to aid in this very crucial aspect of growth readiness in any business organization