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Not having knowledge disseminated through your organization well is a huge issue at larger organizations. I left my last company because no one was on the same
by fasteddie31003 5y ago
Not having knowledge disseminated through your organization well is a huge issue at larger organizations. I left my last company because no one was on the same page. There was rapid turnover, new people come in and have no clue how things are supposed to be done. It got so bad that the company had all 400 members of the engineering department redo the new hire orientation for a week.
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- Godel_unicode 5y agoYou've invented the wiki. Knowledge management is not a technical problem, it's a nobody-wants-to-do-it problem. People will see poor management of knowledge, and assume that if they just used this one weird trick, the problem would go away. See also, maintenance work vs greenfield work.
- fasteddie31003 5y agoThis wiki knows when you've passed a skill and notifies you of the exact changes made since you've passed it. It also lets you know of new documentation upstream in your documentation tree.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoYou're re-solving the consumption end. As I said, the problem is on the creation and maintenance end. Also, I bet you a months salary there are people who are marked in your spiffy tool as knowing things they don't understand at all.
- RangerScience 5y agoFYI; I think you meant: decimate -> disseminate
- fasteddie31003 5y agoGood eye
- RangerScience 5y agoI think the only place where knowledge decimation is an active need and/or concern is https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub