Glossary
The vocabulary of business memory: organizational memory, decision log, decision debt, lessons learned and more.
Business memory: definition
Business memory is a company's active memory: decisions, lessons, signals and evidence, captured as they happen and surfaced when they matter again.
June 12, 2026Decision debt: definition
Decision debt is the accumulated cost of decisions made without a usable trace: lost context, reopened debates, and mistakes repeated at full price.
June 12, 2026Decision log: definition
A decision log is a chronological register of a team's decisions: the conclusion, the reasoning, the alternatives and the evidence, kept in one place.
June 12, 2026Lessons learned: definition
Lessons learned is the structured practice of analyzing a finished project or experiment to extract explicit, reusable knowledge for the whole team.
June 12, 2026Organizational memory: definition
Organizational memory is a company's ability to retain and surface what it has learned, decided and experienced, beyond any single individual.
June 12, 2026Post-mortem: definition
A post-mortem is the structured, blameless analysis of a failure or incident, run after the fact to surface its causes and extract lessons.
June 12, 2026