The last table we present in this descriptive part provides information about the use of
organizational innovations and new knowledge management practices in firms. As can be seen in
Table 11, the share of companies that have adopted new organizational elements differs
significantly from one element to the other. More than 50 per cent of all companies have formally
introduced semi-autonomous work groups, employee suggestion programmes and continuous
incremental improvement programmes, while the share of companies that have formally introduced
parallel development teams or technology foresight is below 10 per cent. In general, organizational
innovations and new knowledge management practices have emerged more often informally than
been established in a formal way. It seems that traditional knowledge management practices
(employee suggestion plans, regular project evaluation) are more often practiced than
organizational innovations aimed at supporting individual or collective learning.