Patent ID: 8082166

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining information from a plurality of individuals via an interview process conducted with at least one of the individuals wherein at least some of the individuals are agents for different organizations; identifying for each of the plurality of individuals information recipient criteria as a function of their organization-based successor lineage with respect to a corresponding one of the plurality of individuals by identifying information recipient criteria to be applied when determining whether to deny providing the information to one of the organization-based successors as corresponds to a given corresponding respective organization-based predecessor, wherein the information recipient criteria to be applied when determining whether to deny providing the information comprises at least one of: an amount of time that the organization-based successor has served as a organization-based successor to the organization-based predecessor; a change of ownership with respect to the organization served by the organization-based predecessor; a change of control with respect to the organization served by the organization-based predecessor; a change with respect to a particular product offering of the organization served by the organization-based predecessor; a change with respect to a particular service offering of the organization served by the organization-based predecessor; a change with respect to market share performance of the organization served by the organization-based predecessor; non-volatily storing the information under conditions designed to preserve the informational integrity of the information for multiple successive organization-based successor generations; maintaining the information in confidence while storing the information; providing the information as corresponds to a given one of the plurality of individuals to respective organization-based successors of the given one who meet the information recipient criteria as automatically determined by a computer; such that successive generations of the organization-based successors have sequential access to the information as corresponds to their respective organization-based predecessor while the information remains unrevealed to others.