What is a Chief Memory Officer?
The old adage that “those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it,” has been given new meaning with the term chief memory officer. The term has been used since the 2000s in business and industry, to describe a person appointed to record the history of a company, not only its history far in the past, but any developments that occur in the present that might need to be remembered. History collected by the chief memory officer can be gleaned from official documents and from the collective knowledge of employees. Not only may this help avoid future mistakes and point to solutions that have worked in the past, but it can also provide a way to record the organization’s collective knowledge. Chief memory officer can be an informal term too. Employees who have “been there” for quite a while may be extremely good at remembering various things about the way a company organized and behaved in the past. Usually though, a company historian or chief memory officer looks to the “old
The old adage that “those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it,†has been given new meaning with the term chief memory officer. The term has been used since the 2000s in business and industry, to describe a person appointed to record the history of a company, not only its history far in the past, but any developments that occur in the present that might need to be remembered. History collected by the chief memory officer can be gleaned from official documents and from the collective knowledge of employees. Not only may this help avoid future mistakes and point to solutions that have worked in the past, but it can also provide a way to record the organization’s collective knowledge. Chief memory officer can be an informal term too. Employees who have “been there†for quite a while may be extremely good at remembering various things about the way a company organized and behaved in the past. Usually though, a company historian or chief memory officer looks to
