The Graying of the Enterprise and Corporate Culture
Posted by druoff on May 25th, 2008A 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.