The article discusses the initiatives of several executives how they prevent skills gap and loss of employee knowledge in the U.S. Computer user group president Robert Rosen develops a mentoring program that offers accessible International Business Machines Corp.'s mainframes to programmers. Jim Siemers from Emerson Process Management company collects and monitors data operations that convert the knowledge of operators into control functions. Furthermore, it suggests extension of new employment relationship models, as well as explores mechanisms that capture critical information for employees.