Organizational Memory

Organizational memory describes the knowledge, decisions, practices, context, and records that allow a group to preserve continuity across people, tools, projects, and time.

Core terms: team memory, institutional memory, transactive memory, tribal knowledge, shared context, handoff memory, decision memory, operating memory, process memory, working agreement, core memory, memory lifecycle, governed consolidation, Context of Reality, context drift, supersession, habit memory, procedural memory.

Terms that change meaning across fields: memory, context, governance, state, consolidation, forgetting.

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