b.cognosco

My take -- our litigious society makes it unlikely anyone in a senior position in a major corporation is going to keep a running diary about anything. And given the current direction of the software industry we're moving to self-expiring data of all sorts. These guys are scared to death of data about what they thought or said hanging around.

I doubt klogging will take root at anything other than a departmental level, and then only in non-financial areas. It's hard to imagine it ever getting to an executive level. I hope I'm wrong.

Can knowledge systems lie as well as information systems?. [...] Suppose for a moment that you had an organization where all the key players kept running diaries of the discussion and debate that accompanied their decisions. Suppose further that these diaries were a matter of record (at least within the organization). In other words, everyone kept a k-log.

How hard would it be for that organization to lie? To fool itself? I pose this not as a moral question, but as a pragmatic one. Along the lines of Mark Twain's observation that "if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." [...] [McGee's Musings]