All organizations need to continuously improve, getting more efficient and effective at what they currently do, while also needing to constantly adapt, aligning with, or even shaping, the circumstances around them. Both improvement and adaptation require organizations to learn.
Organizations can learn by doing, figuring out things on their own, but this can be a slow process of reinventing the wheel. They can also learn by sharing, taking insights gained in one place inside or outside the organization and then conveying this knowledge to the units or individuals that need it. Capturing knowledge about how to do things in the best possible way and then transferring this knowhow is called best practice sharing.
The three knowledge sharing bridges are the following: