A Concept for Model Driven Design and Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer

How to design the process of transferring knowledge is a fundamental challenge in business processes and in education. This contribution reviews conceptual and operational models of knowledge transfer regarding their explanatory and descriptive power, leading to the conclusion that a closed concept to design knowledge transfer, it´s operational fulfillment and evaluation is missing. Addressing this in a first step, a conceptual model of factors influencing knowledge transfers was elaborated and a pre-study to measure the impact of the factors on the success of knowledge transfer in an educational setting conducted. Finally, the predictive suitability of operational knowledge transfer descriptions has been evaluated.