KM in the Asia-Pacific region (Feb 14th)

The February 14th meeting of KM Chicago will focus on knowledge management as seen from the Asia-Pacific region of the world. The presenters will join us via telephone for an interesting discussion. As always, we will listen-in from both Factiva and Allstate. See directions in the sidebar of http://kmchicago.blogspot.com.

KM in the Asia-Pacific region
Scarcely a days goes by when we do not hear about the current and future economic impact of China and various other countries from the Asia Pacific region. Accenture has had a knowledge management presence in Asia since the mid 1990s. Two key people from their respective operating groups will discuss the evolving role of knowledge management at Accenture and their roles in developing and delivering knowledge services in Asia and around the world. Both of these women have been associated with knowledge management at Accenture for more than a decade. They have served their operating groups very ably during that time and have made many contributions to the global knowledge management efforts at Accenture. They and their respective teams have contributed to millions of dollars in consulting revenues over the past few years. Living and working in Asia they have a unique perspective on the cultural, language and technology barriers encountered by consultants in the region. Come get an Asia Pacific view of the successes, challenges, and evolving approaches that are faced by a global organization trying to deliver knowledge management services.

Tanya Brincat
Financial Services Knowledge Management, Accenture

Tanya Brincat has been involved in Knowledge Management since its inception at Accenture in 1992. She was seconded to Accenture's WHQ in Chicago in October 1992 where she spent 4 years working on the design, development and rollout of the core suite of databases to be made available on Accenture’s knowledge management system, the Knowledge XchangeTM.

Since 1996 Tanya has served as a Knowledge Manager for the Financial Services Operating Group (Financial Services is one of the largest industry groups in Accenture with 12,000+ practice personnel globally; $3.4bn revenues in FY2005). After spending one year with the Financial Services Knowledge Management team in New York, Tanya returned to her native Australia where she currently serves as the Financial Services Knowledge Management lead for Asia Pacific (responsible for the provision of knowledge equipping and knowledge harvesting services to the FS practice in Asia Pacific) and the Global Head of Banking Knowledge Management (responsible for managing all Banking related knowledge capital on Accenture’s Knowledge XchangeTM and for developing all internal Banking communications).

Prior to her Knowledge Management assignment at Accenture Tanya spent 4 years as a Management Consultant in Accenture's Change Management practice, where she specialised in instructional design. Tanya holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).

Myrna A. Binamira
Director, Government Knowledge Network, Accenture

Myrna A. Binamira joined Accenture in 1995. Prior to that she was working for the Philippine Government and served for almost 18 years, the last 7 of which was as the CIO for the Department of Agriculture. As the CIO, she was in charge of the Department's IT and IS Program nationwide, and headed the Department's Computer Center. After that Government stint, she joined a private systems integrator company where she found herself selling Microsoft and Lotus Notes software. Sales turned out to be not her cup of tea so after a year of doing that, she went back to job searching and found this ad for Andersen Consulting.

They were looking for a Director for their Government Knowledge Center. Needless to say, she got the job and had to start the organization from scratch. That was the most challenging job yet ever she had to face, but definitely also the most rewarding. Not very many people can actually single-handedly choose the people who will work for them. She has since then managed the KM Program of the Government Operating Group of Accenture and continues to do it with the same passion as when she started.

Dr Michael McDonald on KM in Disaster Management (Jan 10)

The January 10th, 2006 meeting of KM Chicago will have Dr. Michael McDonald, speaking on "KM in Disaster Management."

As always, we meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 5-7 pm at Factiva in the Loop or at Allstate in Northbrook. Dr. McDonald will join us via webinar. Also note that people frequently go out for food & drink after the meetings.

Dr. McDonald is developing crisis management policy and technologies on international, national, state, and local levels. The "Decade of Behavior" speaker, Dr. Michael McDonald, is a noted expert in communication and terrorism and frequently testifies before Congress on various risk communication issues. For KM Chicago, Dr. McDonald will demonstrate the Disaster Knowledge Management System and illuminate the Chicago Resilience Network.

Dr. Michael McDonald is Coordinator of the National Disaster Risk Communication Initiative and President and CEO of Global Health Initiatives, Inc. He is Communications Chairman of the National Capital Region - Emergency Response, CADS Senior Scientist in the School of Engineering at George Washington University, and the Health and Biodefense Coordinator of the Georgetown University Life Sciences and Society Initiative. He is currently leading the Advances in Behavioral, Social, and Natural Sciences for Homeland Security Initiative and is the Director of the Tsunami Disaster Knowledge Management Initiative. Dr. McDonald has been involved in policy development regarding biodefense, homeland security, environmental science, and health information infrastructure on local, state, national, and international levels. During the later part of the 1990s, he was recognized as one of the most influential figures in furthering telehealth and telemedicine. Dr. McDonald has received several honors and most recently he won the Decade of Behavior Distinguished Lecture Award. For this award, he was nominated by the National Communication Association.

Dr. McDonald's primary attention today is directed at building the next generation of health and crisis management systems integrating health care systems, emergency management, information technologies, community resilience, and knowledge science. Dr. McDonald continues to pioneer in the development of health information systems, virtual health management systems, decision support systems, knowledge management, evidence-based practices and cross-media health and community empowerment. Dr. McDonald is presently chairing the Genomics and Bioinformatics working group and is a co-founding member of the Bioterrorism working group of IEEE. Dr. McDonald is performing research in memetics and biosecurity at Georgetown University and is Principle Investigator with the Centers for Disease Control on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Biodefense Initiative. He is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and a Research Professor working in the area of homeland security in the George Washington School of Engineering.

KM Chicago officers for 2006

The 2006 slate of officers for KM Chicago has been approved:
President: Jack Vinson
Vice President: Stefan Lafleur
Treasurer: Luc Dodinval
Secretary: Jan Sykes
Directors: Ann Lee, Tom Wiggins, Dirk Tussing, Randolph Russell

Thanks to the board and to the membership! If you need to contact us, please leave a comment or send mail to kmchicago-owner AT yahoogroups.com.

December meeting reminder, RSVP

Tuesday, December 13
Factiva, One S. Wacker Drive, 22nd floor
Please note: at this location only since we are having a videoconference and wine tasting.

If you are coming, please RSVP to kmchicago-owner AT yahoogroups.com.

5PM - 6PM

Using Text mining and Visualization to Make Sense of Content Chaos

What are text mining and visualization and how can these new technologies impact your business? Text mining is the use of advanced technology to analyze content and discover emerging trends via reports or on screen visualizations. Learn how several technologies can be used to extract value from large amounts of content, allowing the user to monitor existing issues and spot new opportunities or threats, thereby serving as an early warning system for organizations.
Speaker: Glenn Fannick, Factiva Product Development Manager

6PM - 7PM
Holiday wine tasting conducted by Randy Russell, Wine Expressions
Cost: $10 per person

November meeting: CoP's at NSLS

Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System

As always, the meeting will be from 5-7 pm on the 2nd Tuesday (Nov 8th)
The speakers will be at the Allstate location in Northbrook, and we will have our normal webcast to FActiva in the Loop.

Abstract: The North Suburban Library System (NSLS) is a multi-type consortium serving more than 650 member libraries in the northwest suburbs of Illinois. NSLS needed a way for its members to enhance their face-to-face networking meetings and communicate more effectively in an electronic environment. This presentation will give an overview of NSLS’s KM initiative with an in-depth look at the implementation of Community of Practices (CoPs) among our membership. We'll explore how we went about creating the CoPs in-house, gathering feedback, and making enhancements. We'll discuss internal and external marketing of the CoPs as well as the lessons learned throughout. Finally, we'll talk about our success with the CoPs and our KM initiative and what's planned for the future.

Speakers
Christina Stoll is the Knowledge Manager and Special Library Liaison for the North Suburban Library System, spear heading their Knowledge Management Initiative. Her work in libraries began in 1995 and she has been working for NSLS for the past four years, have recently taken over as Member Liaison to the Special Libraries. Christina’s expertise is with project management of the KM Initiative, taxonomies, organizational development and staff training. She earned her Masters in Library and Information Science degree from Dominican University in 2001. Christina has presented on NSLS’s KM Initiative several times, most recently at APQC’s annual conference in May 2005, and will be speaking at the 8^th Annual Braintrust International 2006 in February.

Debbie Baaske is the Special Projects Coordinator and Academic Library Liaison for the North Suburban Library System. She has over six years experience training and presenting on library related issues. Recently she presented at Infotoday, LITA (Libraries in Technology) and APQC on Knowledge Management and will present at the 8^th Annual Braintrust International 2006 in February. Debbie's expertise is with CoPs as the leader of the team that has created over 19 CoPs for NSLS' member libraries. Debbie earned her Masters in Library Science from Long Island University and her Bachelors in Business Administration from St. Joseph's College. Prior to working as a consultant at NSLS, Debbie worked as a trainer/customer support specialist for a software company.