Jennifer carrel was hired eight years ago by New York-based Perkins Eastman to create the firm's knowledge management department and spearhead the development of its intranet, now known as ORCHARD (Online Resource for the Creative Harvest of Architecturally Relevant Discovery). The Indianapolis native is not an architect but previously consulted for nonprofits and arts organizations. As director of knowledge management, she heads a staff of five within the 650-person firm. "We're parallel to IT, HR, and operations," she says of her department. "We sit at that same level and work between and with those groups."
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