Selling the Family Jewels
Ian Bailey
The title of this rant is “selling the family jewels”, but actually it’s more along the lines of paying someone to come along and take the jewels away. There seems to be a view that knowledge management is vital in most organisations, yet the same management teams that espouse it are happily digging out the foundations on which it is built because they look a bit technical, you know…something that an engineer would be interested in.
If we get to the stage where an organisation can’t even get access to the inner workings of it’s own systems, there’ll be no Harry Tuttle to come and fix it for them. Tuttle only had to avoid the beurocrats. Even he would back down at the thought of an IPR lawsuit and associated costs of involving m’learned friends. An even more alarming spectre on the horizon is that of existing systems being transferred into the ownership of services companies…
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