Dr. Dixon is an author and consultant working with clients to create effective ways to share knowledge across organization boundaries.
She is the author of seven books as well as over 50 articles that focus on how organizations learn.
Dr. Dixon has studied knowledge transfer systems in organizations around the world and based on that study has constructed a framework that helps organizations determine the type of system that best leverages each different type of knowledge. That framework is the subject of her book Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know from the Harvard Business School Press, which has been translated into several languages, including Spanish and Chinese. Many of the systems she describes rely primarily on person-to-person interaction and others combine personal interaction and technology.
Dr. Dixon's consulting company has worked with corporations and government agencies to create communities of practice, develop lessons learned systems, facilitate after action reviews for large projects and help individuals develop their social capital.
Before forming her own company, Common Knowledge, Dr. Dixon was Professor of Administrative Sciences at The George Washington University in Washington DC and earlier was a member of the Human Resource Development graduate faculty at The University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Dixon serves as an Editorial Reviewer for the Human Resource Development Quarterly, as a Member of the Editorial Board for Management Learning and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Workplace Learning.
Dr. Dixon has consulted to numerous companies in the US and abroad including Conoco, Nokia, Texaco, Lockheed-Martin, Ericsson, Internal Revenue Service, Veterans Administration, The Fannie Mae Foundation and the Canadian Centre for Management Development and. She is a frequent speaker at conferences both in the US and Europe.
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know