Sources of Expertise

Italy, long the source of expertise in multi-step synthesis built up over the years by individual entrepreneurs, did not fare any better. Francis in Milan, after having been owned by Laporte, is now controlled by Degussa AG Profarmaco was acquired by Nobel Chemical, which in turn is owned by Cambrex OPOS went successively to Hoechst Marion Roussel and then to Holliday Chemical Holdings, itself a part of Yule Catto. 

Previous plant experience—this can be an ideal source of information. However, personnel turnover in manufacturing plants may diminish that source of expertise. 

Source of Expertise. Does one always need an expert to create a knowledge-based system This question stems from the often stated assumption that to make a knowledge-based system, one needs to find an expert in the chosen field from whom to extract the required knowledge. While this may often be the case, it is not always necessary to have an expert available to develop a knowledge-based system. Clearly, the needed commodity is knowledge, not necessarily in the form of a person. If the required knowledge is available from other sources, then an expert may not need to be present for system development. 

As we recognize those who helped bring this book to fruition, there are more names than can be listed. The research into all of the models presented has taken a path around the world and into every conceivable source of expertise. Crediting these sources has been done as carefully as possible throughout the text. If a particular individual or organization has been overlooked, it is purely unintentional. 

Training for health and safety is not an end in itself, it is a means to an end. Talking in general terms to employees about the need to be safe is not training workers and management alike need to be told what to do for their own health and safety and that of others, as well as what is required by statute. A knowledge of what constitutes safe behaviour in a variety of different occupational situations is not inherited but must be acquired, either by trial and error or from a reputable source of expertise. Trial and error methods extract too high a price in construction work, where the consequences of forced and unforced errors may be very serious, even catastrophic. 

Second, the officers focused on the value of a trained pool of chemists and other technical personnel as a source of expertise the military could deploy in a crisis. Fries believed this the most significant contribution a thriving domestic industry would make to national defense. You can not train a chemist in six weeks, six months, or a year. We had to have... 

Who might be an untapped valuable source of expertise and knowledge in an organization Explain why. 

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