Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines

Competitive advantage is sought by many executives, for instance, Grant concentrates on knowledge application, and argues that firms are entities that must apply the knowledge that their employee’s possess in order to enhance competitive advantage. An example of this is when Jamie Diamond left Citigroup to head up J.P. Morgan in the 2013, he was paid 20 million dollars to not take any people with him to J. P. Morgan for three years. Thus, knowledge creation and application manifest themselves in people, organizations, systems, and processes and should be guarded like gold in the Federal Reserve Bank. In this article, I place a new emphasis on inter-companies social networks, because its strategic importance in exploiting knowledge and enhancing effectiveness at all levels of the organizations.