Monday, February 15, 2010
Presentation: Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young
Thanks again to Darrin Brogan and Brad Kenney for speaking with us last week. The presentation they discussed, Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young, can be found below.
Monday, February 08, 2010
February 9th Meeting Reminder: Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young
Even though the Chicagoland area is expecting a heavy snowfall tomorrow, we will still be meeting downtown at the Dow Jones site at 5:30pm as normal. For those planning on meeting in-person, please note that the presenters for tomorrow's call, Darrin Brogan and Brad Kenney, will be joining us virtually. If you wish to do so as well, the web conference details can be found below. We hope you can join us, either way!
Meeting Information:
Meeting Location:
Dow Jones Company-Factiva, One South Wacker Drive, 22 floor, Chicago IL 60606
Web Conference Details:
a. To join Livemeeting: http://tinyurl.com/4v2prf
b. You will be prompted to enter your name and email address
(If you have never used LiveMeeting, you will also be asked to download a plug-in)
c. For audio: 877-659-4152, PIN 8667037
Sunday, January 24, 2010
February 9th: Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young
Please join us for our February meeting at 5:30pm when Darrin Brogan and Brad Kenney will discuss "Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young." Meeting location details can be found on the sidebar to the right.
It's one of the more interesting, and often exasperating, aspects of managing enterprise communities of practice that each -- by necessity -- has its own character and culture, sponsors and managers. Building and maintaining long-term, healthy communities of practice take practice.
Ernst & Young recently sponsored an APQC report entitled Sustaining Effective Communities of Practice . In this study, we partnered with leading KM research organization APQC to study companies that have successfully leveraged Communities of Practice (CoPs) to identify, share and create valuable knowledge. In the research, APQC identified 18 best practices that enable organizations to sustain thriving, impactful CoPs. These best practices are organized around 5 themes:
1. Create a sustainable community strategy
2. Practices and approaches for sustaining communities
3. Tools and resources for community managers
4. Promote awareness and communicate value
5. Measures
The best practices identified in the report address the organizational challenges that often prevent the launch of successful CoPs and offer a guide for how they can be woven deeply within the fabric of an organization. Talking about the report will be Darrin Brogan, an associate director within the EY Center for Business Knowledge, and Brad Kenney, a senior consultant within the EY Advisory practice.
It's one of the more interesting, and often exasperating, aspects of managing enterprise communities of practice that each -- by necessity -- has its own character and culture, sponsors and managers. Building and maintaining long-term, healthy communities of practice take practice.
Ernst & Young recently sponsored an APQC report entitled Sustaining Effective Communities of Practice . In this study, we partnered with leading KM research organization APQC to study companies that have successfully leveraged Communities of Practice (CoPs) to identify, share and create valuable knowledge. In the research, APQC identified 18 best practices that enable organizations to sustain thriving, impactful CoPs. These best practices are organized around 5 themes:
1. Create a sustainable community strategy
2. Practices and approaches for sustaining communities
3. Tools and resources for community managers
4. Promote awareness and communicate value
5. Measures
The best practices identified in the report address the organizational challenges that often prevent the launch of successful CoPs and offer a guide for how they can be woven deeply within the fabric of an organization. Talking about the report will be Darrin Brogan, an associate director within the EY Center for Business Knowledge, and Brad Kenney, a senior consultant within the EY Advisory practice.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Helping KMers in Transition, a Roundtable Discussion
Welcoming the new year, on January 12th KM Chicago will host a roundtable discussion focusing on helping KM practitioners in transition. Please plan to join us for this free-form discussion where we have the opportunity to learn more about what our KM colleagues do, share hiring experiences, discuss transferable/required skills, and tips and tricks for locating KM-focused positions.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Not Your Typical Information Overload Presentation
Please join us for our November meeting as Craig Roth will share with us, "Not Your Typical Information Overload Presentation."
It is not difficult to find confirmation that there is “too much information”. Declaring “e-mail bankruptcy” is the new fad. Meanwhile others pooh-pooh the “information overload” crowd as a bunch of hand-wringing complainers who haven’t adjusted to new technology yet. There’s no “right” answer in the debate between those that believe information overload will soon cause the heads of information workers will begin to pop like popcorn as they slump over in their fuzzy cubicles and those that believe we’re just adapting to the new flow. Instead, this presentation will find a way around “information overload” to a more actionable approach: enterprise attention management (EAM). EAM focuses on how enterprises can help information workers to pull the important messages forward and push the less important messages back. Whether you see information overload as a crisis or just one more thing people are adapting to, improving efficiency is something everyone should be able to get behind.
Craig Roth is the Collaboration and Content Strategies Service Director for the Burton Group (www.burtongroup.com).
Please note: The downtown Chicago meeting location has changed. We will be meeting in the YMCA offices at 101 North Wacker, 13th floor.
It is not difficult to find confirmation that there is “too much information”. Declaring “e-mail bankruptcy” is the new fad. Meanwhile others pooh-pooh the “information overload” crowd as a bunch of hand-wringing complainers who haven’t adjusted to new technology yet. There’s no “right” answer in the debate between those that believe information overload will soon cause the heads of information workers will begin to pop like popcorn as they slump over in their fuzzy cubicles and those that believe we’re just adapting to the new flow. Instead, this presentation will find a way around “information overload” to a more actionable approach: enterprise attention management (EAM). EAM focuses on how enterprises can help information workers to pull the important messages forward and push the less important messages back. Whether you see information overload as a crisis or just one more thing people are adapting to, improving efficiency is something everyone should be able to get behind.
Craig Roth is the Collaboration and Content Strategies Service Director for the Burton Group (www.burtongroup.com).
Please note: The downtown Chicago meeting location has changed. We will be meeting in the YMCA offices at 101 North Wacker, 13th floor.
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