Thanks for the clarification Harold, I guess I was confused by what room the elephant was lurking in! As someone working within an enterprise structure and responsible for fostering adoption of these new ways of working, I am constantly looking for ways to overcome these barriers. I think it's important to acknowledge that the tools themselves are constrained by their application and when we compare enterprise use to that in the consumer market we can identify many challenges. We are still figuring out how to maximise the benefit of applying them within organizations. I think (in my lifetime at least) there will always be an internal/external model but we will gradually see a blurring of that line as we are forced to adopt a more open, transparent way of working in order to compete.

I like the idea of mutual ownership of knowledge posed by Kieran, though I continue to struggle to see how we can achieve it. One way that I talk about it within my organization is moving from WIIFM to WIIFU (What's in it for us) so that we can begin to think in terms of mutual benefit and really alludes to the shared ownership concept as well.