Core service - Documentation

Most organisations already wrote the answer down once. It lives in a wiki nobody updates, a shared drive nobody searches, and a few heads nobody can afford to lose.

An audit clears out what is dead and shapes a documentation system around how people work. Ownership and review habits go in alongside it, so the system stays alive.

The knowledge exists. It is scattered across drives, chat threads and people's heads, and nobody trusts what is written down.

Our docs are spread across a wiki, a shared drive, and about forty chat threads.

Nearly 20% of the working week goes to searching for internal information or tracking down the colleague who knows, close to a full day in every five.

Writing things down was never the hard part. Keeping it findable, current and trusted takes a system, and that is the part most organisations skip.

What fixed looks like

  • Content Audit

    An inventory of what exists across wikis, drives and tools: what is duplicated, what is dead, what is wrong, and what is worth keeping. Most documentation projects fail because this step gets skipped and the mess simply moves house.

  • Documentation Strategy

    A clear answer to what lives where, who owns each part, and when it gets reviewed, so the question "where do I put this?" stops being answered differently by every team.

  • Centralisation & Migration

    Scattered content moved into one system, restructured on the way rather than lifted and shifted, so the new home starts trusted instead of inheriting the old clutter.

  • Structure & Findability

    Content organised around how people search and work, not around the org chart, so the answer surfaces in seconds instead of a message to whoever wrote it.

  • Ownership & Review Cycles

    Maintenance built into real workflows: named owners, review dates, and a routine for retiring stale content, so the system stays current after the project ends.

  • Training & Handover

    Workshops, guides and recorded walkthroughs so your team runs the system themselves, the same handover that keeps client teams self-sufficient after a larger build.

~20%

of the knowledge worker's week is spent searching for internal information or tracking down colleagues who can help with specific tasks.

McKinsey Global Institute, The Social Economy, 2012

Get it out of people's heads

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