Here's her advice: "Identify a colleague in an adjacent area [of expertise] and swap jobs for a time period—anywhere from one day to two weeks.
Some firms have successfully tasked high-potential employees with tracking the evolving expertise in adjacent departments, which has to be a dynamic process definitely not a knowledge database.
Developments in personalized medicine and the unique nature of the human microbiome offers an opportunity for Big Pharma to develop devices that no adjacent industry has the expertise to develop.
A technical founder, whose experience may relegate her or him to a specialist role in a large company, for example, has to adapt and take on more expertise in adjacent technical areas.
The aim here is to fill a growing need within companies for expertise in new or adjacent technologies outside their core R&D competence that industry convergence is increasingly forcing them to contend with.
With RUSH, smartly, they elected for a more business-focused solution, extending their expertise into a naturally adjacent use case which occurs in every city worldwide and is often, like cabs, run by smaller companies with outdated networks.
Furthermore, they are only likely to be addressed by the creative contributions of researchers with expertise in computing and in adjacent and complementary fields.
A musician and former record producer who still pals around with the likes of Sting and David Byrne, Levitin now runs the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University; he covered adjacent turf in his 2007 best seller, "This Is Your Brain on Music".
Canada and Mexico: It is only in the adjacent countries that Walmart can tout its international expertise.
Crucially, we also used expertise within the team to identify relevant literature from adjacent fields not immediately or obviously relevant to the question of "access".
Adjacent competency is something Hintze talks a lot about, where CQS can apply its expertise in related areas.
