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

Commercial Sector Applications of GIS

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


Learning and Knowledge Alignment

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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.

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.

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.

Knowledge jam for chicago km 110208

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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!"