The knowledge management of organisations through collaboration with universities and further educational colleges

For a company to be a competitive force in today's global market, it needs to become a lean and efficient teaming organisation. To realise this, the company must increase and maximise the knowledge capital within the organisation. In order to achieve this, companies need to identify, develop and implement innovated teaming strategies, utilising the workplace. One way to achieve these strategies is to develop partnerships with higher education colleges and education colleges. In the paper, the authors outline a collaborative project, to be funded by the European Social Fund, between a university and a number of colleges of further education so as to develop partnerships with organisations to identify, develop and implement innovated teaming strategies to increase and maximise the knowledge capital within organisations.