Why Organizations Keep Paying for Knowledge They Already Own
Organizations spend millions creating knowledge. Then quietly spend millions more rediscovering it.
An architect rebuilds an application model that existed five years ago. A modernization team repeats dependency analysis from the last migration. A compliance review answers questions already settled in the previous audit. A new engineer spends months learning what the organization once knew.
None of this appears on a balance sheet. It’s one of the largest hidden operating expenses in the enterprise.
The problem isn’t that organizations fail to learn. It’s that they repeatedly pay for the same knowledge.
https://primamachina.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-rediscovery