February 2008 Meeting

Join us on Tuesday, February 12th at 5:30pm to discuss the topic of Expertise Location Tools. This presentation and discussion, led by Deloitte's Stuart Rosenberg, will focus on Deloitte's internal implementation of iConnect (Tacit Software). Stuart will review how the tool works, challenges encountered during the implementation and recommendations for other organizations considering similar endeavors.

Stuart Rosenberg is currently a Senior Program Manager within the National Knowledge Management Group at Deloitte. Prior to receiving his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Stuart held various operations and manufacturing roles at Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-McNeil pharmaceutical division. He joined Deloitte Consulting in 1997 and spent the next 2 years working primarily on process improvement projects for financial services and telecom clients. In 1999, he began working on an internal project to develop the Firm's first web-based global portal and knowledge management system. Since then he has held various internal-facing roles in both Knowledge Management and Information Technology, all of which have focused on the development, deployment and managementof enabling technologies including portal, search, collaboration, expertise location, learning management and knowledge management capabilities. He resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife and two young sons.

Please note conference call information for those who are joining by telephone: 877-659-4152, PIN 19494780
LiveMeeting log-in: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/dowjones/join?id=alee&role=attend
Two locations: Dow Jones (Factiva), One S Wacker Dr, 22nd floorAllstate, Northbrook (see sidebar for location details)

Jan 8 Meeting

Tuesday, Jan 8 at 5:30pm
Highlights of the CKO Summit -- Ann Lee, Dow Jones
Welcome to 2008 Officers
Planning for upcoming year

Upcoming KMChicago programs

November 13:Using the Value Network Analysis concept to look at an organizational culture and apply that understanding to the role of the knowledge sharing manager.Dianna Wiggins of McDonald's Global Consumer & Business Insights Info Ctr. will demonstrate a simple value network analysis model as it applies to understanding organizational culture and effecting knowledge exchange. An open discussion will follow.

December 11: KMChicago Holiday Celebration

October 9 Meeting

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective KM (with apologies to Stephen Covey)

Dale Stanley, Corporate Library, Enterprise Information Science Services, Learning & Knowledge Management, Genentech, Inc. will present some best practices for sustaining and evolving KM within an enterprise knowledge services program.

Dale will be presenting via phone. Please note: this meeting will start promptly at 5:30pm; if you arrive at the downtown location (Dow Jones office) after 6pm, you will not be permitted to come directly to the 22nd floor. See sidebar for all meeting location details.

Sept 11 meeting

Join us for the first meeting of the season: Tues, Sept 11 at 5:30pm.Open source or secondary information is a distinctive piece of the KM mosaic. This presentation and discuss led by Cynthia Lesky of Threshold Information will look at the role of secondary information in knowledge management. Cynthia will present two of Threshold's real-life information search projects as examples of tactical and strategic use of external information. The topics will be:Wikipedia and corporations: what best practices are developing in how companies manage erroneous or negatively-biased entries Positive organizational scholarship: what it is and how the concept is being used in business settings.Using these projects as a jumping off point, attendees will be asked to contribute to a discussion of the role of external information in KM. Cynthia will be at our downtown location - Dow Jones offices at One S. Wacker Dr, 22nd floor. Please note: meeting will start promptly at 5:30pm; if you arrive after 6pm, you will not be permitted to come directly to the 22nd floor. See sidebar for all meeting location details.