With an understanding of what tacit knowledge exists, how it is distributed across the organization, how people influence each other, which ideas are considered important, and useful metrics-based insight on all of this, organizations are much more readily armed to transform its structure, processes, or culture.

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And if they had asked us we would probably have said: well, that's fine provided you make sure it is given to everybody in an even-handed way and that it's not given to the USDA. For example, if you're going to distribute milk powder we certainly don't want the USDA to be the organization through which this milk powder is distributed.

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In San Francisco, California, a volunteer organization called the Urban Wind Task Force has distributed 27 wind-monitoring stations throughout the city to survey sites for potential turbine installations.

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The Secretary-General presented the Organization with a natural science textbook printed by UNESCO in 1956 and distributed to school children, Ban Ki moon among them, in post-war Korea.

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In addition, in May 2002, I founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community agreeable to copyright owners, consumers and consumer electronic industries.

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