What is Pass the Baton for Boomers?

The very first idea for Pass the Baton came from a conversation with a classmate at my 40th high school reunion. He had retired and then been hired back at a substantially higher salary because his employer realized that his knowledge had walked out the door.

Regardless of the economy, during the next decade, millions of Boomers will retire, change the way they work or die at their desks. Without a systematic way to extract the technical, historic and cultural information that they have, their employers and former colleagues are destined to reinvent or rediscover the processes, procedures and connections that Boomers operated.

A separate case will often be made for changing and updating those procedures, but without documentation -- without a roadmap detailing what was done and how and why it was done -- the cost of recreating that knowledge base will be staggering.