Challenge+to+Wiki+as+a+Business+Application

I have reviewed the Wiki's of my classmates; I can't help but wonder what use this is for business people. It seems like a lot of time would go into **creating** information which no one may need, want or use and/or **reading** information which may not have any relevance to my/their work. I would be really nervous if my operations staff and analysts were taking up productive time inputting information to this software.

My feeling is that we have created a "Streganonna" of software. Do you remember the childhood story where the man wishes for pasta from the magic pot? The pasta came alright but it covered the whole town. While it may have fed everyone [they were not starving incidentally] but the overabundance of spaghetti was unnecessary. Please do not misunderstand me, - I believe that knowledge and information empowers us but I spend a great deal of valuable time filtering what is necessary and/meaningful. Is this technology truly valuable to business today?

I will, however, keep an open mind and hopefully this course will prove me wrong. On that note, I am glad to get up to speed on all of the possibilities out in cyberspace through this rigorous course scheduling and work. CM