Monday, November 28, 2011

Proposed KM Chicago board and December Holiday Event

Two quick announcements/requests:

1)  Please take a moment to vote on the proposed slate of KM Chicago officers, listed below, for the upcoming year.  To do so please visit the KM Chicago blog (http://kmchicago.blogspot.com) and cast your vote in the poll on the right-hand sidebar.

Proposed Slate of KM Chicago Officers for 2012
President: Cynthia Lesky
VP: Jennifer Faist
Treasurer: Luc Dodinval
Secretary: Alice Dunlap-Kraft
Board: Curtis Conley, Randy Russell, Lisa Beckers, Rachel Kaberon


2)  If you haven't already done so, please RSVP for our KM Chicago Holiday Event.  More details below:

It has become a tradition that we devote our December meeting to sharing food and wine in a festive holiday setting.  Once again in 2011 Randy Russell will present the wine and food pairings.  This will be the 10th year that Randy has led this spirited event.  We hope you can join us.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 13 December, 5:30-7 PM at the Dow Jones conference room.  For obvious reasons there will be no dial in or web presentation.  Randy will share 6 wines and the accompanying food pairings.  There will be a presentation about each of the wines and ample time for questions.  A take home program is also provided to help with your shopping.

To be sure we have sufficient food and wine an RSVP is required for this event.  Please send an email to randyrussell1@aol.com by close of business on Friday, 9 December.  Let us know who is attending and how many.  This is a great opportunity to bring a colleague or spouse and introduce them to your KM friends.  Due to the capacity of the room, we will limit the number of attendees.

To cover the cost of the food and wine, the price for the event is $20/pp.  The money will be collected at the event so please bring cash or a check with you.  Sorry we can not accept credit cards.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Bonus KM Chicago meeting: November 22nd virtual session

In the KM Chicago Group meeting on November 8, we explored a number of areas with Bob Dean and Steve Bell.  After exploring the area of collective knowledge toward the end of the session, Bob and Steve offered to continue the discussion of the Digital Change Agent role.  The KM Chicago group can participate in some brainstorming and ranking about this important future role in organizations.

We are planning a follow-up virtual session via conference call and ThinkTank on Tuesday, November 22 at 5 p.m. CT.


Session Details:

     Session Name:  Digital Agent of Change
     Session Description:  Guided by Bob Dean

Link:  https://try.groupsystems.com/ThinkTank.html?sessionID=967
Passkey:  123456

For audio: 888-998-2663 or 1-517-466-2222, Participant ID: 153336#

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

KM Chicago Holiday Event

It has become a tradition that we devote our December meeting to sharing food and wine in a festive holiday setting.  Once again in 2011 Randy Russell will present the wine and food pairings.  This will be the 10th year that Randy has led this spirited event.  We hope you can join us.

The event will be held on Tuesday, 13 December, 5:30-7 PM at the Dow Jones conference room.  For obvious reasons there will be no dial in or web presentation.  Randy will share 6 wines and the accompanying food pairings.  There will be a presentation about each of the wines and ample time for questions.  A take home program is also provided to help with your shopping.

To be sure we have sufficient food and wine an RSVP is required for this event.  Please send an email to randyrussell1@aol.com by close of business on Friday, 9 December.  Let us know who is attending and how many.  This is a great opportunity to bring a colleague or spouse and introduce them to your KM friends.  Due to the capacity of the room, we will limit the number of attendees.

To cover the cost of the food and wine, the price for the event is $20/pp.  The money will be collected at the event so please bring cash or a check with you.  Sorry we can not accept credit cards.

We look forward to seeing you at the event. 

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

log in for tonight's meeting

Link: https://try.groupsystems.com/ThinkTank.html?sessionID=911
Passkey: 123456
Session Details
Session Name: Business Innovation and The Experience Economy
Session Description: .
Start: Wed Oct 26 11:05:46 GMT-500 2011

Friday, November 04, 2011

Interested in joining the KM Chicago board, or hosting a meeting?

The time for KM Chicago board elections is coming up soon. If you have an interest in volunteering to help organize meetings, identify topics and speakers, please let us know. The amount of work is negligible (~30 minutes each month), and it's a great way to expand your network with other KM professionals within and outside of the Chicagoland area. If you have any questions or would like more information, please just let me know.

In addition to new members, KM Chicago is also looking for new locations where we can have our monthly meetings. Factiva has been kind enough to host us for several years, but will only be able to do so in a limited fashion moving forward. If you have access to meeting space in the loop that may be able to accommodate KM Chicago please do let us know. If we have multiple options available to us we would be able to alternate locations when needed (so you wouldn't be on the hook to host every meeting!). Once again if you would like to volunteer, have any questions or need more details please do let me know.

Thursday, November 03, 2011

KM Chicago November 8th meeting, with Bob Dean

For those of you unfamiliar with the work of Pine& Gilmore's The Experience Economy, this month you are in for a treat. Bob Dean, Certified Experience Economy Expert #002, will share his customization of the Progression of Economic Value (POEV) framework for professional service firms. An active lifelong collaborator, talent development leader and Chief Learning Officer, Bob will share this point of view by using GroupSystems ThinkTank, a unique collaboration tool. At the same time, he will take us through a model for creating a high performance culture and allow us to experience ThinkTank as a way of capturing our collective knowledge exchange. Those familiar with Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework, will find the association to POEV striking. To maximize your meeting experience, please bring your laptop or tablet to the meeting, or link in remotely. [See KM Chicago blog for details: http://kmchicago.blogspot.com/]

Joining Bob in this collaborative experience will be Steve Bell, President of KeySo Global. Steve’s company has done research around the evolving knowledge ecosystem and the importance of collaborating outside your company in order to tap into “collective knowledge”, which is growing at a phenomenal rate.

Bob Dean is the Director of the North American business for Profiling Online where he is responsible for talent management strategy consulting and regional business development based out of Chicago. Bob brings over 25 years of experience in professional services firms, serving as a learning and development leader/CLO at Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton. From 2007-2009, Bob served as Vice President of Learning & Talent Development at Heidrick & Struggles and co-developed the firm’s global talent management strategy.

Connect with Bob on LinkedIn or follow Bob on Twitter.

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

KM Chicago October 11th meeting, with Jeff Merrell

What happens when you ask graduate students -- all experienced business and not-for-profit managers -- to think about KM as tightly integrated with organizational learning and change? For the past 10 years, knowledge management has been a core part of the curriculum at the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change at Northwestern University (MSLOC). Jeff Merrell will share insights that make the case for the value of KM as a discipline and shed light on KM’s role in the greater organizational system. He will also share how the program has used collaboration technology to change its own learning and knowledge sharing environment.

Jeff Merrell is Associate Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change (MSLOC) and the Center for Learning & Organizational Change (CLOC). At MSLOC he teaches the program's organizational knowledge management course and is faculty adviser for student Practicum projects. Through the CLOC he manages the development of new Practicum projects with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Jeff's professional background includes experience as both a consultant and corporate leader in organizational learning and knowledge management. He is founder of Purple Line Associates, a consultancy and research practice established in 2001 to help organizations define knowledge sharing and collaboration strategies and to implement new technologies and practices. His consulting work includes projects for global leaders in the pharmaceutical and retail industries as well as not-for-profit and federal government organizations.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

KM Chicago September Meeting Options

Our standard meeting will not be held this September.  This is due to two competing events happening the same day that a number of KM Chicago members will be attending/organizing.  Please consider attending one of the alternate events scheduled for Tuesday, September 13th.

2011 Midwest KM Community Symposium


Hosted by the Kathleen Valderrama of The federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Address:
1455 East 6th Street
Cleveland, OH 44114-2566

For more information contact Curtis Conley (cuconley@deloitte.com)

SLA Illinois Chapter meeting w/ visiting SLA President Cindy Romaine


Location:
Osteria Via Stato
640 N. State St.

For more information contact Cynthia Lesky (cynthia.lesky@threshinfo.com)

Friday, August 05, 2011

KM Chicago August Meeting

With so many people out on vacation during August, KM Chicago will be taking a month off.  We'll be back on September 13th for the Midwest KM Symposium.  This year's event will be held in Cleveland, Ohio.  More information about this event will be posted soon.  In the meantime, more information can be found below in the save-the-date post:

http://kmchicago.blogspot.com/2011/05/save-date-midwest-km-symposium-2011.html

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Cruise the River with KM Chicago July 12!

Please join your KM Chicago friends and colleagues on Tues, July 12, at the base of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue (400 N. Michigan) for the 6 PM combined river and lake architectectural cruise. The narrated cruise is 90 minutes and covers both the Chicago River and a trip through the locks into Lake Michigan. There is a cash bar on the boat.
Each person is responsible for purchasing his or her own ticket. We recommend online purchase at www.wendellaboats.com. These trips sell out in the summer even during the week so please buy a few days in advance to avoid disappointment. Arrive at the dock at least 15 minutes prior to departure. Purchased online, the cruise is $24.70.
Following the cruise, please join us for dinner at Catch 35. The restaurant is at 35 W. Wacker Dr. in the Leo Burnett Building, a few minutes walk from the dock. Reservations are for 7:45. Catch 35 is a delightful seafood restaurant with a menu to please everyone. Check out the menu and other details at www.catch35.com.
You can join us for the cruise, the dinner or both. No need to RSVP for the cruise. Just purchase your ticket and show up. If you will be joining us for dinner, please send an email to randyrussell1@aol.com with your name and the number of people. If you are driving, Catch 35 has valet parking after 5 PM for $10.
We look forward to seeing you all on July 12!

Monday, June 06, 2011

June 14: Jean Keleher on KM at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center





At KM Chicago's regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 14, Jean Keleher will tell us about her work at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jean will discuss the implementation of the Bioenergy Hub, an internal collaboration platform for scientsts and staff at the GLBRC.

The mission of the GLBRC is to develop sustainable fuels; Jean's role is to make sure that the scientists working there can conveniently collaborate and share information.


Please join us to learn how knowledge management contributes to the development of technologies that have the potential to solve one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Save the Date: Midwest KM Symposium Tues, Sept 13th 2011 - Cleveland, Ohio

This year we will be holding the symposium in Cleveland Ohio at the Federal Reserve bank in downtown Cleavland.  The symposium will be broken down into three 2 hr. segments

Segment One: Managed by Kathleen Valderrama Contact at: Kathleen.M.Valderrama@clev.frb.org
Topics: Organizational Development, Motivation and inspiration, People, and Cultural Insights

Segment Two: Managed by Karla Phlypo Contact at: karla.s.phlypo@gmail.com
Topics: Processes, procedures and methods used to motivate, share, acquire, transfer, reuse knowledge and learning

Segment Three: Managed by Curtis Conely Contact at: cuconley@deloitte.com
Topics: Technology - old technology with new uses, future technologies and present day examples of successful uses of technology

Insights
Please send your topic to the appropriate segment manager.
Stay up to date by going to the Midwest KM Community Website. https://sites.google.com/site/midwestkmcommunity/
Insight submission are due by August 15, 2011.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

KM Chicago May 10: Social Search Engines with Bill Chamberlin

Social Search Engines: Social media are a new way to contribute digital content, so we need better ways to search for this content than the big search engines offer.

The emergence of social media means a new and different way for people to contribute digital content. Likewise, it means we need new ways to search for and find this new content. The big search engines don't necessarily focus on finding this content. This session will provide an overview of some search engines that help you find information in the social media. At the end of this session, you should be able to:

  • Understand why we want to search and participate in the social media 
  • Understand what types of search engines are available on the public Internet that allow you to search social content.

About Bill Chamberlin
Bill is a 30 year veteran of IBM spanning a career in both Sales and Marketing. He has spent the last 16 years in IBM's Market Insights organization supporting IBM Marketing and Strategy professionals. He currently works as a Principal Consultant Analyst on a small team focused on helping IBMers develop social media marketing strategies. Bill is also a community leader, having built and managed the 1900 member HorizonWatch community within IBM since 2001. He is very active in the social media blogging and tweeting under the HorizonWatching brand name. Bill received his MBA in 1995 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has lived in the Chicagoland area his entire life.

Friday, April 15, 2011

"Sharing Hidden Know-How" now available

During our February meeting Kate Pugh walked our community through the process of a Knowledge Jam, and shared insights from her then-upcoming book Sharing Hidden Know-How, now shipping on Amazon.
Sharing Hidden Know-How” introduces the conversation-based Knowledge Jam method, which pairs experts and teams who hold organizational knowledge with the people who need to use that knowledge. Adding the disciplines of facilitation and translation to the conversation discipline, Knowledge Jam accelerates innovation and improves business practices by uncovering startling insights, and moving them into practice. Pugh shows how organizations can then maximize combined knowledge during merger integrations, smooth executive transitions and succession planning, optimize off-shoring and outsourcing, and make social media initiatives more productive.
Full press release available here.

March & April Meeting Slides Posted

The slides for both our March and April meetings have been posted to KM Chicago's Slideshare account.

KM Chicago April 12th meeting: Commercial Sector Applications of Geographic Information Systems, with Dr. Charles Linville


March 8th Meeting: Knowledge Management & Learning, with Lisa Beckers


Learning and Knowledge Alignment

View more presentations from KM Chicago

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

KM Chicago April 12th meeting: Commercial Sector Applications of Geographic Information Systems

Please join us for our April 12th meeting: Commercial Sector Applications of Geographic Information Systems.  Attendee information is located in the right pane of the KM Chicago blog.

Corporate entities and their manufacturing plants, warehouses, suppliers and other partners, all have something in common –association with locations. A geographic information system (GIS) assists in the processing, analysis, and visualization of corporate knowledge that pertains to place. Corporations have been using GIS tools to perform site selection, risk management, territory creation, routing, supply chain analysis, asset tracking, regulatory compliance, and workforce management.

Dr. Charles Linville, Founder and President of Ploughman Analytics, will describe a number of applications of GIS in the private sector, drawing attention to the capacity of a GIS create new knowledge as well as to communicate spatial information. In particular, he will discuss site selection and location analysis, the examination of logistics networks and their impact on market territories, and applications of satellite image processing.

Dr. Linville developed the first recurring course in geographic information systems at American University in DC, and played a key role in establishing the GIS group at Archer Daniels Midland, where he was Manager of Knowledge and Data Engineering and then Director of Analytics and Knowledge Systems. Ploughman Analytics, founded in 2007, is a consultancy and software development group in the Research Park of the University of Illinois. Its practice includes GIS, business intelligence and data warehousing, operations research, and knowledge management.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

March 8th Meeting: Knowledge Management & Learning, with Lisa Beckers

Join our us for a discussion of the connection between knowledge management in learning led by Lisa Beckers, Sr. Manager overseeing learning and knowledge management for Deloitte’s Global Industries.

Lisa will share some work done to in define a vision for how to integrate these functions in order to add value to a business, challenges and tactical ways to KM and learning can work together. We hope that a good portion of this time will be brainstorming and open discussion that helps anyone interested in this area consider the broad impact integrating these functions can have and how they might help move their organizations in that direction.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Sharing Hidden Know-How: Knowledge Jam

The slides from last night's KM Chicago meeting can be found in our SlideShare account, and also linked below.   Thanks again to Kate Pugh for sharing with us - it was a great meeting with a lot of fantastic conversation.

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Update and Reminder: February 8th Meeting Location Change

Our next meeting on February 8th, Knowledge Jams with Kate Pugh, will not be held at our regular location.  Instead this meeting will take place a couple of buildings down the street at the Deloitte offices (address and details below).

Request: If you plan to attend the meeting, please RSVP by sending Curtis Conley an email (cuconley@deloitte.com). There is no cost to attend, but we will need to provide your name to the front desk ahead of time.

Address: 
Deloitte building
15th floor, Jackson Park conference room
111 S Wacker Dr.
Chicago, Il. 60606





Dial-in information:
888-998-2663, Participant ID: 153336#

LiveMeeting URL:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/deloitte/join?id=7QGG4G&role=attend&pw=tqTX-tTD3

Meeting Details: 
Tuesday, Feb 8th at 5:30pm

Please join us for our next meeting, February 8th for what should prove an interesting and interactive meeting led by Kate Pugh.

Knowledge Jam is a process for using conversation to get out tacit (hidden) knowledge from teams and experts, and to put it to work with the help of the organizations that need it most.  It is built around the disciplines of facilitation, conversation, and translation, and draws on the practices of organizational learning, social media, and intelligence acquisition.  Kate Pugh, author of Sharing Hidden Know-How (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, March 2011) will take the KM Chicago group through the process and have us all do a role-play.  Expect a fun, interactive, and practical experience that may inspire you to facilitate your own Knowledge Jams.

Kate is president of AlignConsulting, a firm focused on knowledge-based transformation. She formerly was VP for KM for Fidelity and Senior Technical Program manager for Intel Solution Services. She also held leadership roles at JPMorganChase and PwC Consulting/IBM. Kate is also the co-author with Nancy Dixon of the Harvard Business Review article, "Don't Just Capture Knowledge. Put it to work!"

Friday, January 14, 2011

February 8th Meeting: Knowledge Jams with Kate Pugh

Please join us for our next meeting, February 8th for what should prove an interesting and interactive meeting led by Kate Pugh.

Knowledge Jam is a process for using conversation to get out tacit (hidden) knowledge from teams and experts, and to put it to work with the help of the organizations that need it most.  It is built around the disciplines of facilitation, conversation, and translation, and draws on the practices of organizational learning, social media, and intelligence acqusition.  Kate Pugh, author of Sharing Hidden Know-How (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, March 2011) will take the KM Chicago group through the process and have us all do a role-play.  Expect a fun, interactive, and practical experience that may inspire you to facilitate your own Knowledge Jams.

Kate is president of AlignConsulting, a firm focused on knowledge-based transformation. She formerly was VP for KM for Fidelity and Senior Technical Program manager for Intel Solution Services. She also held leadership roles at JPMorganChase and PwC Consulting/IBM. Kate is also the co-author with Nancy Dixon of the Harvard Business Review article, "Don't Just Capture Knowledge. Put it to work!"

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

January 11th Meeting: New Year's Knowledge Management Resolution

As defined on Wikipedia, a New Year's Resolution is, "a commitment that an individual makes to a personal goal, project, or the reforming of a habit."  Given that definition, do you have any Knowledge Management resolutions that you will be making this year?  It could be anything from an exciting new project you'll be working on, or simply the resolution to stop doing something that isn't working now.

Welcoming the new year, on January 11th KM Chicago will host a roundtable discussion on this topic.

Please plan to join us for this free-form discussion where we have the opportunity to learn more about what our fellow KM Chicago community members are working on, and what they plan to accomplish during this new year.  We hope to see you there!