Harold, I agree fully with your message about the need for transparency. In age of knowledge-work, good work comes down to people being able and willing to easily share knowledge and this is where the culture comes into play. We're really talking about how people engage or interact. Transparency, or what I call 'openness,' makes for a culture - a 'space' - that is good for sharing knowledge. But, if transparency, with people organizing themselves, is the goal, it seems to me there is more to getting there than tools and recognition from management.

Not only do we have 'learn transparency,' but also we have to let go of the whole 'management apparatus' - the ethos, if you will - of competition, hierarchy, and compliance. I'm beginning to blog about these issues - http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a01348994e261970c013489a65d12970c - because these practices undermine transparency (openness) at every turn and you can't say 'workers, here are the tools to share knowledge and, BTW, you are free organize yourselves,' when every aspect of work life signals just the opposite.

Your direction is right but the path is murky.