...bridges organisational gaps

Borders are made for crossing, but organisational borders can sometimes be far more difficult to cross than those between nations. The obstacles faced are of course factors such as corporate culture, business culture, information management issues and trust. Strangely enough, most of us are perfectly willing to let an outside service provider clean our offices or  a construction company to renovate our entire office building, but when it comes to having an occasional knowledge worker wander about in our intranet to get a better grasp of the peculiarities of our corporate technolects or sharing procedural knowledge in an unofficial capacity, the guard suddenly goes up. Information, which would be vital to multilingual communication processes remains hidden, thus preventing new knowledge from coming to light.