Artwork: Chip TaylorA Denmark-based analyst with research firm J. Boye said she's encountered an organization that, after implementing an enterprise-wide employee wiki, realized it didn't exactly have the right culture to bring it to life.

Discussions prior to the site launch debated whether employees should contribute anonymously or through profiles, and whether those profiles should include user photos, recounted Dorthe Jespersen. Ultimately, employees were allowed to contribute through profiles with pictures, she said, "but [the organization] had a conservative culture so no one actually wanted to make visible what they were working on right now."

Jespersen said the employees' concerns varied anywhere from harbouring concerns around writing about work that perhaps wouldn't be considered "real" work, or about work that they weren't supposed to be doing at the time, or even having fears of making spelling errors.