Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted;
Closely held beliefs are not easily released;
So ritual enthralls generation after generation.
Submitted by Taran Rampersad on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 10:21
Once upon a time, circa 2004, a business in Trinidad and Tobago came to me with a problem - a problem that I can't give details on given the non-disclosure agreement I signed with them. Thus I will write it in an abstract fashion.
The problem was tracking assets of a multinational corporation - and the assets had quite a bit of information associated with them. Each asset had images, charts, documents and everything else associated with it. To develop a desktop application using C++ would have been the solution I would have suggested 10 years beforehand. The solution then, the same solution in use now, was to take a Content Management System (CMS) and (1) Customize it to the needs of the multinational corporation and (2) programmatically import data into the MySQL database backend. The CMS used and still in use: Drupal.
You can't manage knowledge — nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied.
