Knowledge Is a Garden: Why Modernizing Record Keeping Cultivates Your Next Harvest
This African proverb beautifully captures why recordkeeping should be a living, breathing practice in every organization. Picture your historical records as the seeds, your data infrastructure as the fertile soil, and the insights, innovation, and growth you reap as the abundant harvest. In my experience working with century‑old companies, neglecting this “data soil” not only stunts growth but lets processes wither, opportunities slip away, and operational and technical debt pile up.
