Abstract
Smart-Sourcing is typically knowledge-intensive and collaborative. Success is not possible without tactics for effective knowledge-exchange throughout the life-cycle of a contract. It involves bringing teams across organizations (vendors, clients, sub-contractors, service providers, suppliers etc) together in order to acquire, share and co-create knowledge. Knowledge exchange across boundaries is not new. The works of Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni (973-1048AD), a Persian polymath scholar who made significant contributions in diverse fields of study, were examined using frameworks of knowledge assets and knowledge flows. The knowledge flows of knowledge assets were studied using Boisot’s I-space model and the knowledge transfer to and from Al-Biruni was studied using Gupta and Govindarajan’s knowledge transfer framework. The factors that have contributed to the tremendous achievements in scholarship by the genius of Al-Biruni were found to be the possession of multiple intelligences, a balance of wisdom with an ability to positively influence his environment and a strong value system within which he operated. His methodology also provides several lessons that can be learned and applied for knowledge diffusion. The research also suggests that possessing multiple intelligences and a balance in wisdom enables the people involved in multi-national, cross-cultural and cross-lingual knowledge transfer to be able to give better form and structure to knowledge enabling easier and better knowledge diffusion.
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