It is much easier to supply general information, although this may go far towards equipping a company to solve its specific problems for itself. The task of raising awareness in the enterprises is best left to organisations and individuals that already command the attention of management. Delivery methods have to be active, such as seminars and single-topic workshops and intermediaries would be in turn users of and contributors to the common resource. A possible model is depicted in fig. Although the principle of sharing information about IT changeover practices was shared by the vast majority of those consulted, a number of important observations were made that need to be taken into due account when planning for the actual implementation of such a repository.
Information needs to be sectoral .
It was strongly felt that the information provided should be specific to both business sectors or sub-sectors and to geographical regions. Experiences from large enterprises may not be relevant for SMEs. The value to SMEs of some of the material potentially coming from large enterprises was questioned. For example, elaborate project structure models designed to address large corporate structures are clearly outside the resources of small companies, but may serve to illusrate the scope of the issues that need to be considered. There are competitive issues.