People move on. Retirements happen. Roles change. The knowledge those people built up should not walk out with them.
Every organisation has processes, relationships and quiet ways of doing things that live in someone’s head rather than anywhere findable. It works perfectly well, right up until that person is on leave, or gone.
What good knowledge management actually does
- Captures expertise while the expert is still there to ask
- Preserves institutional knowledge through staff changes
- Makes onboarding faster, because the answers already exist
- Reduces how much depends on any one individual
- Makes information easier to find when someone needs it
If only one person knows how something works, you do not have a process. You have a single point of failure.
Start with the handful of things that would genuinely hurt if that person were away for a month.
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