Kunskapsöverföring i projektbaserade organisationer- En strävan efter att slippa uppfinna hjulet igen

Sammanfattning: A big part of assets in companies today consists of their employees knowledge and skills. In today’s society knowledge insensitive companies are increasing. The survival of these companies lie in the knowledge of their employees, which make it of great importance that knowledge transfer is managed properly. Knowledge transfer is important since it makes it possible for co-workers to apply old solutions to new problems that arise, using knowledge that already existing within the organization. From a knowledge transfer point of view, using project as an overall structure has both advantages and disadvantages. Since work comprehended in a project is limited in time knowledge and experiences made from a project may not come to use in a future project. Members of a temporary organization do not have a department to return to and there fore no natural way to transfer the knowledge they gained. Purpose of this paper is to describe knowledge transfer in project-based organization and barriers for doing so between projects. The study is conducted at two Swedish companies, SABO AB and Struktur Svenska Kontor AB in the service sector using interviews, studies of documents and observations. Our paper contribute to research by describing problems with knowledge transfer in two small project-based service organization using new concepts and cast shed on problems depending by the organisation, members and the character of project within in the organization. Key words: .