My first employer out of college (The Instruction Set - RIP) exploited this by selling training courses that the technical staff would teach on rota: - Per thi

My first employer out of college (The Instruction Set - RIP) exploited this by selling training courses that the technical staff would teach on rota: - Per this article - staff quickly became experts in appropriate fields. There is nothing like explaining pointers,inheritance,device driver interrupts etc. to a confused (but motivated audience) to internalize it yourself. - It was a great source of development work - one of the principles of the company was not hoarding knowledge - very often, teaching companies how to solve their problems would result in them saying something like "Wow, it really is hard, that's not our core business, can you help us" - and they would now have the knowledge to negotiate a sensible spec. - It gave a sort of mini sabbatical to the tech. staff - every couple of months, you would be out teaching for a week or two, and dev. work would be scheduled around this.