What is institutional memory? Succinctly, it is the information and history held in personal recollections and experiences that provide an understanding of the history and culture of an organization, ...

Every day for the next two decades, about 10,000 baby boomers will reach the age of 65, according to Census data. When they leave the workplace, the retiring baby boomers — those born between 1946 and ...

The current bane of my existence is underdocumented policy. These are policies that were formulated, usually about 10 years ago–but sometimes as many as 25 or as little as 5–according to the various ...

Look at the depth of institutional memory India possesses. Former R&AW hands such as Amitabh Mathur, Amar Bhushan, Ravi (C.K.

What if you were to leave your job today? How much institutional memory would leave with you? Workflow things and tech how-to, things that haven’t been added to any sort of staff manual. What if you ...

BOSTON— As part of its Centennial celebration, Harvard Business School (HBS) today launched the Institutional Memory website. The interactive, multi-media site captures the history of the School ...

Every organization relies on the experience, ideas, and insights of its people, but that expertise often disappears with employees when they leave or retire, or when teams reorganize. This loss comes ...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of anti-Black violence. Northwestern is extremely demanding — yet, undergraduate students have a 94% six-year graduation rate. This outstanding outcome ...

If you've read this issue page by page from the front, you've no doubt come across our obituary of George Rostky, EE Times editor emeritus, who died Nov. 1 after a valiant battle with cancer. The loss ...

One of my former mentors used to tell me that the safety culture of any plant or organization was related to the institutional memory of the last big accident. Think about that statement for a moment.

Our own Dan Maloney has been on a Voyager kick for the past couple of years. Voyager, the space probe. As a long-term project, he has been trying to figure out the computer systems on board. He got ...