Management Recommendations for Inter-organizational Knowledge Sharing Driven by Digital Innovation: A Practical Analysis Based on COSMOPlat

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the deep integration of the digital economy and the manufacturing sector, traditional inter-organizational knowledge sharing generally faces persistent pain points, including high trust costs, low circulation efficiency, and the difficulty of balancing security and openness. Industrial internet platforms offer a brand-new pathway to address these dilemmas. Taking Haier’s COSMOPlat as the empirical case, this paper systematically analyzes the architectural support, governance logic and practical system through which digital innovation enables inter-organizational knowledge sharing. The research demonstrates that COSMOPlat builds a digital foundation for knowledge circulation via a four-layer structure comprising the resource layer, platform layer, application layer and business model layer. It adopts modular governance featuring "closed core modules and open peripheral modules" to strike a balance between security control and ecological openness, and ultimately establishes a four-in-one inter-organizational knowledge sharing system integrating resources, technology, data and capabilities. This system upgrades knowledge flow from one-way transmission to multi-directional co-creation, and from linear delivery to dynamic iteration. Building on the practical logic and existing limitations, this paper puts forward management suggestions from four dimensions: technical architecture, governance mechanism, knowledge operation and ecological collaboration, so as to provide practical reference for manufacturing enterprises to improve inter-organizational knowledge sharing mechanisms based on industrial internet platforms.