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Back in 2002 - MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte had an epiphany. What would happen if every child in the world had access to a internet and network enabled laptop, chock-full of useful educational and productivity tools. Well out of this whimsical and seemingly daunting endeavor came one of the coolest and truly inspirational technology tools I’ve had the pleasure to work with.

I’m not breaking any ‘new news’ so to speak here — the OLPC program is well established, has had a wide-range of press and media coverage throughout it’s short life. However, the program is in it’s infancy… The amazing leadership team obviously has big plans for both the program and the device. From my position the challenges are more socio-political and logistically oriented than technologically.
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A recent conversation revealed an interesting dilemma to me. My client is a CIO of a large consulting services firm and has about 125 project managers and just over 500 total employees across 15 or so offices.

Aside from the general challenges they face in attempts to streamline project and document management – they face a greater, generational struggle.

They’ve got a good number of Baby Boomers poised to retire in the next few years – and there have been no attempts or programs put in place to facilitate the transfer of their knowledge. These are folks who have been with the firm since the 80s and have grown with – and really have the most knowledge of - the business.

They are also the least likely to adopt or embrace any new collaboration tools that may be rolled out.

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