To protect its intellectual property, the company carefully controls access to its plants, with access granted only to those employees who work in them. In addition, Georgia-Pacific has patented new processes and technologies for other papermaking methods. The machines involved in papermaking are truly massive-sometimes the equivalent of a three-story building and a football field long. The conventional wet process (CWP) is the traditional method of making paper from wood fiber. That’s why a tool like SharePoint spaces is not just nice to have but essential to our future business success.” Papermaking 101 The ability to preserve knowledge and pass it along to subsequent generations of papermakers is important for sustaining our long-term competitive position. Either way, we lose our competitive advantage.
If we don’t ensure continuity of knowledge, one of two things will happen: (1) We lose that knowledge or (2) the knowledge becomes socialized throughout the industry and everybody will be doing the same thing. Kurt Adams, vice president, Research and Development, sums up the company’s need and goals this way: “One of the important responsibilities of Georgia-Pacific’s R&D organization is what we call continuity of knowledge-that is, the assimilation, archival, and dissemination of knowledge that we think is important for sustaining our competitive advantage and training future generations of papermakers. That’s when the company tapped the Wisconsin-based Advance Concepts® group and the Consumer Products Technology Innovation team to tackle the challenge, which ultimately led to the discovery of Microsoft SharePoint spaces. Georgia-Pacific’s goals of preserving knowledge and training new papermakers became even more challenging in the face of a global pandemic that made travel and in-person communication nearly impossible. Like many companies with a long history and many patented processes, Georgia-Pacific wanted to preserve institutional knowledge and provide a strong foundation for the next generation of papermakers. Pretty much, if you can make it from a tree, we have or we do.”įounded in 1927 in Augusta, Georgia, and now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific employs 30,000 people in more than 180 locations worldwide. As Bruce Skillin of Georgia-Pacific’s Continuous Manufacturing Group (CMG) Immersive Learning team says, “We’re a lot of different things to different people. The paper aisle at your local grocery store is filled with some of Georgia-Pacific’s most recognized brands, including Angel Soft® bath tissue, Brawny® paper towels, and Dixie® plates and cups. Restaurants feature Georgia-Pacific paper towel dispensers mounted to their restroom walls. If you’re a homeowner looking to build a new deck, you’ll see a big “GP” stamped on wood materials as you browse a home improvement store’s lumber aisle.
What you think you know about Georgia-Pacific depends on how you encounter its products-and there are many ways to do that.
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