Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Janssen-Cilag’s Corporate Wiki

Here’s a great post on E-gineer about how Janssen-Cilag has used a wiki to improve input into their system with the voice of their employees. They don’t quite yet know the best ways to collaborate and communicate in the company, but this wiki is proving to be a great start.

They feel that their employees who are contributing to their blog are not contributing to basic policy of their enterprise and they’re also not learning to collectively edit posts. They see two cultural barriers that could stand in the way of this:

-- Sharing knowledge adds more work ("I don’t have time to share"); and
-- Sharing knowledge increases personal risk ("I don’t want to share").

Continue reading the post here. What are your thoughts on how can a company most effectual encourage their company to contribute to a wiki?