


Ever since man first drew on cave walls to illustrate how to spear and kill a T-Rex for dinner, we’ve done knowledge management. “We’ve heard about this – the massive exodus of federal employees and the expected loss of institutional knowledge. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is actively seeking to minimize the anticipated “brain drain” when seasoned employees exit the workplace.Īccording to the Pew Research Center, the fact that 10,000 baby boomers are reaching age 65 each day is also causing corporations to rethink their processes to retain that institutional knowledge, making “knowledge transfer” the buzzword du jour.

Faced with the reality that 16 percent of its workforce is eligible to retire now and another 35 percent or about 500 employees within the next five years, the U.S.
