Then, very quickly, you would have assimilated the 100 documents by drilling through their hyperlinks and speed-reading the highlighted text, assimilating how the yellow phrases supported the green and blue phrases. In effect, you'd be speed-reading the document and hyperlearning the related content, applying mass-data assimilation methods.

Corporate expertise as a corporate asset
If you can harness the power that comes from this information sorting technology, you can use it to get your business ahead of the game. If you know how well people learn from each other, then you can map that pattern to a corporate learning plan, which will then map to the business plan. You can manage corporate expertise as a corporate asset, essential for delivering products and services to your customers.

You could even have the system organize knowledge into groups by color highlighting the collaboration that threads through documents the employees in your company read and write. That way, they can not only understand, but also influence the learning process of your organization. Using this knowledge of knowledge, you could better compete and win in the new, highly competitive global knowledge economy where knowledge is king and the key to delivering timely, quality products to customers, thus keeping them happy and ensuring repeat business.

Kevin Hoffman is a senior consultant for NOBLESTAR Systems in Reston, VA. He can be reached via email at kevinh@erols.com.