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. 2016 Oct 26;34(2):243–256. doi: 10.1007/s11095-016-2043-9

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Illustration showing the link between the various sources of knowledge and QbD applications by knowledge management functions. Knowledge flow starts from the four possible sources and may consist of symbols (numbers, letters), data (collections of symbols), information (data in context), and knowledge (applied information). KM uses four distinctive functions to efficiently guide the flow of knowledge towards achieving QbD goals as required to gain product and process understanding.