To integrate the individual knowledge base however is to contract it. To creatively synthesize existing knowledge into leaner, meaner ideas, plans, procedures etc. Then this new knowledge can be added to the org's base. As individuals taps further and further in to the org's base, and develop newer info, and then add this to the base, what you will se happening is the org's knowledge base will start to reflect the individual knowledge base, ie having a high degree of creativity rather than an Aristotlean droan to it. When individual and organizational knowledge bases are practically mirror images of each other, then knowledge is power.
Creativity is drawn exponentially to new hights.