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Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Too Much of a Good Thing -- Secrecy and Confidentiality

Windley is right, again -- more from Utah's CIO on how the weblog can get knowledge out in the open. I, too, worry about the confidential being exposed, but there really is far less to protect than we often think.

In the current new.architect article Five Mistakes Your Company Won't Make Now That You're Reading This, mistake number four is overvaluing intellectual property.

I've seen this in my own employers, where secrecy and an overzealous confidentiality ethic strangled both workers and customers while in reality there was nothing to protect.

Digging Ideas Out of People's Heads.

Dave McNamee is doing a good job on his weblog of narrating his work and keeping his co-workers updated about where his head is at on any given day.  Good work Dave!

I worry sometimes about the public expression of information that should be kept confidential, but I worry more about the exponentially worse problem of keeping confidential that which should be publicly expressed.  I can think of ways to solve the first problem, but I can't dig ideas out of people's heads.  They must be expressed to be used. 

[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]


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