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, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. We’ve known Nick Mavodones for a long time, since serving as a school ...

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 ...

As a longtime knowledge management and information consultant, I have often found that when organizations are trapped in a recurring cycle of challenges and down cycles, it stems from a common culprit ...

Being a history major is depressing. Don’t get me wrong. The department is excellent. Unfortunately they’ve done too good a job, showing me how the study of history can be put to use. Sadly, I’ve seen ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY — It was 30 years ago, outside his northern Iowa hometown of Charles City, that a dilapidated 156-year-old redbrick home — and efforts to restore it — compelled a then 35-year-old David ...

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 ...

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 ...