Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information' [ABSTRACT]
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By Karen Lawrence Oqvist

Abstract

These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Öqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by  providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.

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These days organisations can run themselves ragged protecting their internal information assets, but it's of little comfort when 'soft' information - information that may have little inherent value, but yield knowledge when linked up with hard information by competitors - is so easily shared by employees within their social networks outside the workplace. Karen Lawrence Öqvist provides pointers for organisations to turn those potential intelligence risks into receptors by  providing a forum in which employees can share and be heard within the workplace.

What's Inside:

Your employees...will instead congregate, group and link with other subject matter experts from other organisations in virtual spaces somewhere in cyberspace where they can be heard and where their opinion counts. Here they will build their online reputation by communicating, linking and collaborating outside of the confines of the organization.

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