June 21, 2006
Knowledge continuation at your company
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Over the next 10 - 15 years the baby boomers will be leaving the industry in droves. As with every other aspect of their lives they will create a ruckus when they do so!
In this case they will be taking out a large amount of the experience, knowledge and skills that they have built up over a lifetime.
In the generations since this one entry levels have declined, there are more gradute entry engineers than experience trained engineers (generally) and this is a situation that is getting worse with each year.
As the average experience levels in your company drops - and the quality of some of the remaining knowledge becomes less (overall) than the baby boomers.... what is your company doing to try to head off this bow wave of problems that are coming down the pipeline?
I have done some work in this area recently, and I am very keen to see what else is going on throughout the world.
All replies greatly appreciated…
