Building absorptive capacity in an alliance: Process improvement through lessons learned

Lessons learned provide the greatest value when they form part of a continuous learning process and should be: documented, communicated, archived, throughout all stages of a project. This can enable a project to maximize its ‘absorptive capacity’ (i.e. its ability to value, assimilate and apply new knowledge). With this in mind, the development and implementation of continuous ‘lessons learned’ process adopted by a program alliance that was able...