Gentry Underwood, project manager for IDEO‘s knowledge sharing project:

Gentry [Underwood] brought up a key distinction between IDEO’s take on Knowledge Sharing and traditional Knowledge Management: It’s not about being more efficient. It’s about being more innovative.

Not that their knowledge sharing platform detracts from efficiency; far from it. In fact, some of the tools they’ve created are models of efficiency. But efficiency doesn’t lead to breakthroughs. Innovation does. So the main thrust behind IDEO’s Knowledge Sharing platform is to provide a set of tools that lets employees communicate and collaborate at scales and distances never before possible.

(via ThoughtFarmer)