Notice of RetractionExpertise management and competency management: The implications and relationships

Notice of Retraction

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Knowledge management is widely considered to be essential to create sustainable competitive advantages for organizations in today´s business environment. Expertise Management, which focuses on tacit knowledge, is one of the most valuable KM applications. It is understandable that expertise management is relatively new area, in some cases it is confused with competency management. Despite of the similarities between the two terminologies, they differ in functions, applications, foundations, processes, methods, etc. This paper analyzes the nature of expertise and competency following with the comparison between expertise management and competency management. This paper lays special stress on methods, processes and technologies associated with expertise management and competency management.