A significant barrier to the successful creation and use of OMS might be that there is no clear estimate of how long the development effort might take. With no clear short-term benefits in sight, organizations are less inclined to expend valuable organizational resources. In addition to such a lack of commitment, there are also difficulties in the acquisition of such knowledge. While informal knowledge exists everywhere, it is by no means easily accessible. Unlike declarative memory, which stores facts and propositions, procedural memory stores processes and actions.
Successful usage reinforces the chunked rules.
However the problem with capturing chunked organizational rules is that some of the individual rules which form it may have decayed or may not be applicable in the current context. Thus, it is not just important to capture the memory but also to evolve and update it. Prior organizational experience when applied in the right context can be useful but if applied in inappropriate context will risk failure. If not, the organization must then have a conflict resolution policy. While some informal knowledge, such as that pertaining to culture, is public to the organization, there are other informal primitives that might be private or restricted to the scope of the individual or the group.