Working with an active Loop knowledge management system in place forces a number of issues. Consistency is needed both within an individual's work style, and across a work-team to use a knowledge base tool in accordance with a set of standards. There is a strong value shift inherent in the use of feedback loops. It ranges from valuing feedback, to valuing collaboration, and along the way incorporates a shift from individual heroics to coordinated teamwork as the preferred work style. At a more basic level, it recognizes the limited value of personal paperwork when contrasted with the value of shared information as applied to the adaptiveness needed to succeed in business.
Loops work best when tied to a yet as unrealized goal.
Visualizing, monitoring and managing goals is a substantially different method of working then is common in the current work arena. Most people work from lists, not goals. Finally Loop knowledge management requires individual and organizational leadership. Without effective and enduring leadership, resistance upends consistent behavior and consensus of thought, and ultimately the use of a Loop knowledge base. It remains to be seen if individuals and organizations can transition to commonly use both types of knowledge management.