In sharing “best practices” are you giving away your company’s secrets?

The concept of identifying and sharing best practices is firmly rooted in the project management profession. After all, the “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” published by the Project Management Institute, as well as many other standards for that matter, are really compendiums of the collective experience of a multitude of contributors who regularly identify the best practices they have experienced where they have worked, or for whom they’ve worked, and pass it along to others so they don’t make the same mistakes. But in sharing our company’s best practices are we divulging information which is proprietary? In other words, our company’s secrets? What does proprietary actually mean? Here’s how  USLegal.com describes the concept: Proprietary information is sensitive information that is owned by a company and which gives the company certain competitive advantages.

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In sharing “best practices” are you giving away your company’s secrets?