Week $5$ Brainstorming Discussion

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Topic: How does a company use KM to create strategic value?

Harry Hartfield was looking over some recent travel brochures while consulting his recent Google search. Retirement is only $5$ days away and he could not wait to see the Fiji Islands. He and his wife thought they would start with a restful break before they started their travels in earnest. Harry is the head aero engineer at Global Delivery Direct and has been in charge of purchasing the planes and maintenance for the last $15$ years after being an employee with GDD $25$ years before. Harry had worked up in the company to his current position and has seen a lot of initiatives come and go when it came to eco$-$friendly flying machines. In the last four weeks, Harry has been breaking in his replacement, Imogine Farthing. who is coming from their London branch. Harry likes Imogine and thinks that she will do well. However, she is keen to purchase the new Boeing $777$ cargo plane. She thinks it will go a long way to improving their fuel consumption and air emissions for the long$-$run between Chicago and Singapore. The cost of the new plane is $3$ times more than the Lockheed which Harry thinks will save fuel costs over the old cargo plane they are using now but will not have the same air pollutant emission reduction. While Harry thinks air pollution an important concern for GDD$,$ he also knows that in the past these controls often make the cost of the plan high and the fuel consumption lower than the company predicts. Imogine does not agree. Harry knows it will be her call but wishes he could access old reports he made when he was making a similar decision earlier in his career. With that information as a base with updated figures, he may be able to persuade Imogine to change her mind. During his retirement party. Harry decides to tell Rockfish about this point in the hopes that he may know how to locate the reports. Harry thought it was worth the try. Rockfish said he would look into it but wasn't sure what he could do$.$