Many psychologist prove that our knowledge is domain specific. Certainly an organization is a domain of knowledge. The question is which knowledge is transferable to other organizations which is not. I think there are 5 levels of transferring knowledge.

Most transferable is the knowledge in general business domain and general human relations domain. They may be said to be general and universal. Then we have the knowledge that may be universal in a business and not be applicable in other businesses. Then we have company specific knowledge, which is shared between employees of a company, but is not shared outside. Then we have team specific knowledge, and finally we have the process (or task) specific knowledge. Knowledge that is specific for each individual.

Diagnosing tool like Organizational DNA has to be tailored to work for this specific company, though for selected groups of questions, comparisons between divisions of the same company, or even between companies in different sectors are possible. We should know, however, which question have narrow applicability, which broader.