in a box

One of the company's better knowledge management concepts is the "in a box" model. The notion is to practically package an idea so that it can quickly be rolled out from inkling to production.

All of the learnings and experiences have been captured, templates and support is available and all you really need to do is begin to join the dots. It's not perfect but it's a good concept - a recipe of sorts.

And although we have all experienced mixing ingredients together only for the outcome to be less than desired, the process even of failure brings about learnings which you can put into the box so that someone else doesn't repeat those same mistakes.

Capturing intellectual capital is not as simple as it appears, because we all have our own idiosyncrasies and while this is the spice, it's the glue that we want, the stuff that builds the "global mindset" and then we allow space for "individual flair." You want to put a dash of both in the box.

Sadly the organisation is on the verge of saying goodbye to our dedicated custodian of knowledge, the job is now being sent to source. OOPs.

I am hoping that the many good things that we have placed into the many boxes that we have worked on together continues to bare fruit for the lucky recipients.

Learning can be such a luxurious experience, yet mysteriously it is always the first thing to be cut, even in a company that can afford many, many luxuries.

Another bad banking day but hopefully, fingers crossed it's almost over and shout-outs to EAW, 28 more days to boxing it out.