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
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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.
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.
Friday, August 24, 2007
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.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, June 12; 5:30pm
Corporate Applications for Social Networking
Chris Fletcher is responsible for Knowledge Management in the Asia Pacific region for the consulting practice of Deloitte. Prior to this he was the Knowledge Management Director for Deloitte Australia. He has worked in professional services for over 17 years in both accounting and law firms in knowledge management, research, business development and marketing roles.
He has worked for Deloitte over the past six years and has oversight of Knowledge Management initiatives for Consulting in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, China and India. Chris is passionate about the future role knowledge will play in business and the impact social networks will have into the future. For more insight into his views and thoughts, please visit his blog - Adventures in Knowledge (http://adventurekm.typepad.com)
Chris has a Masters degree in International Marketing from the University of Technology, Australia.
Chris will be joining us remotely via LiveMeeting and conference call. We will meet in 2 locations: Dow Jones in downtown Chicago and Allstate in Northbrook. Or join us remotely using instructions in sidebar.
Corporate Applications for Social Networking
Chris Fletcher is responsible for Knowledge Management in the Asia Pacific region for the consulting practice of Deloitte. Prior to this he was the Knowledge Management Director for Deloitte Australia. He has worked in professional services for over 17 years in both accounting and law firms in knowledge management, research, business development and marketing roles.
He has worked for Deloitte over the past six years and has oversight of Knowledge Management initiatives for Consulting in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, China and India. Chris is passionate about the future role knowledge will play in business and the impact social networks will have into the future. For more insight into his views and thoughts, please visit his blog - Adventures in Knowledge (http://adventurekm.typepad.com)
Chris has a Masters degree in International Marketing from the University of Technology, Australia.
Chris will be joining us remotely via LiveMeeting and conference call. We will meet in 2 locations: Dow Jones in downtown Chicago and Allstate in Northbrook. Or join us remotely using instructions in sidebar.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
May 8 Meeting - Knowledge Cafe on KM Business Topics
KM Chicago is announcing that it will host another Knowledge Cafe during its regular meeting for Knowledge Management professionals on May 8th. The topic for this session is: >Key enablers to make Knowledge Management successfull in your organization<. We will be discussing best practices and lessons learned on where KM should be located within your organization, who should be the business owners, how did you build your business case, besides others.. Another hands-on session, with take-away experiences you can use.
Attendees can join us at either of our two regular locations -- Chicago and Northbrook (see side bar for details). There will be no LiveMeeting for this session; Conference call info: 877-393-3363, PIN 19494780
Update: This meeting will start at 5:30 pm, as will all future meetings until further notice.
Attendees can join us at either of our two regular locations -- Chicago and Northbrook (see side bar for details). There will be no LiveMeeting for this session; Conference call info: 877-393-3363, PIN 19494780
Update: This meeting will start at 5:30 pm, as will all future meetings until further notice.
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