The Role of Knowledge Management Process in the Valorization of the Knowledge Within an Algerian Society / Case of the Center for Technological Studies and Services of the Building Materials Industry, by Abbreviation CETIM, Subsidiaries of the GICA group

Abstract

This article deals with one of the managerial devices necessary for the valorization of the knowledge available to a company in order to create a strategic advantage. Through a qualitative research by single case study, our primary objective was to verify the existence and functioning of knowledge management process for the valorization of knowledge within the Center for Studies and Technology Services of the Building Materials Industry. (CETIM) Subsidiary of the Groupe Industriel des Ciments d'Algérie (GICA), then to demonstrate how it allows the transfer of knowledge from the CETIM to the subsidiaries of the same Group and consequently, obtaining a strategic advantage from knowledge transferred. Through the analysis of data collected, since the period from 2020 to 2022, in the field from two (02) methods of investigation (observation and interviews), the results showed that in addition to the managerial devices included in the literature review and set out in the conceptual framework, other operational mechanisms involved in the valorization of knowledge have been identified in the field.