Posted by Martyn R Jones on February 02, 2002 at 04:55:28:

In Reply to: KM, Business and Mergers: A question posted by Martyn R Jones on January 30, 2002 at 05:50:41:

Hello,

Greetings from sunny Spain !!! :-) again

How about this supplementary question ...

Why do knowledge intensive companies with impressive trak records in touting their success with internal KM also find it difficult to see the trees from the woods and screw-up badly with big business decisions in text-book scenarios and risk fraught situations? even when conventional wisdom, and the knowledge embedded in a companies own culture, indictates that the rush of egocentric satisfaction following a certain big battle won leads to pain, anguish and suffering -- I can never be sure if it is an inate desire on the part of some CEOs to make mega-battles with scant regard to whether one wins them or not, or whether one needs to or not, in order to achieve short term gain at the risk of losing the war, but with the added insolence of having no hope of actually winning the war it either.

The only possible reason for some mergers I fear is to enrich the coffers of the board of directors and not, in my view, to create added-value for the company, its clients or its stakeholders.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Martyn R Jones

• KM - you've seen it already

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