Knowledge management, corporate security, HR and legal will be forced to embrace social media within their firewalls and employees seek to connect at work.

FORBES: Looking Back, Looking Ahead - CMOs Weigh In

Corporate plans: The Department of Labor, the agency charged with regulating corporate pensions, generally lacks knowledge of the money management and securities industries, has offered little meaningful guidance to corporate sponsors on these issues and has been even less effective in investigating wrongdoing and enforcing the laws.

FORBES: The Growing Scrutiny of Pensions ( August 22, 2005)

When knowledge management later became an official corporate priority, I used similar stories to maintain the momentum.

FORBES: Connect

Craig Raeburn of TyMetrix, a provider of Web-based management solutions for corporate law departments, correctly acknowledges that technology is not a substitute for the knowledge, intuition, and skill of lawyers and other legal service professionals.

FORBES: Business Intelligence and Legal Matter Management