1996 CIBIT Consultants | Educators Organizing Corporate Memories1

This paper presents some preliminary thoughts on how corporate memories should be organized in such a way that they maximally contribute to the competitiveness of an organization. We argue that a corporate memory should support three types of organizational learning, which are described. Then we formulate functional requirements and present an architecture for corporate memories that would satisfy these requirements. The paper ends with pointers to related work and future research issues. 1