actKM conference 2010
Call for Presentations
The Organising Committee is pleased to provide the opportunity for interested parties to submit proposals to present at the actKM 10 conference.
actKM 10 will be held on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th of October 2010 at University House, Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, Australia.
The theme for this year is ‘Getting Clever about Knowledge’, relating to the question of how can organisations improve the way in which they generate and manage new knowledge. It is estimated that 40 exabytes (4.0 x 1019 ) will be generated worldwide this year. That is more than the information generated in the previous 5,000 years.
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” - Jack Welch
Most of our effort has traditionally been in managing the overwhelming volumes of information that flood organisations daily. Perhaps our efforts should be focused on generating new knowledge and seeking better ways to generate value from an organisation’s intellectual capital.
Your challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to bring your knowledge and experience to the table and engage with a discerning and interactive audience to explore possibilities to Get Clever about Knowledge for organisations in the current environment.
We are seeking submissions with a preference for interactive/experiential activities that engage conference participants in a learning or collaborative environment to foster understanding and facilitate an effective knowledge transfer. Submissions are requested by 01 June 2010.
One complimentary pass to the conference will be provided for each presentation.
Important Dates
Submissions: 01 June 2010
Extended to: 20 July 2010
Notification: 30 July 2010
Full Submission: 20 September 2010
Author and Early Bird Registration: 30 July 2010
Conference: 18th and 19th or 20th and 21st October 2010
Monthly Meeting - Belief, Belonging, Behaviour: Foundations for an Australian River Restoration Centre
By Dr Siwan Lovett
Australia is a continent of incredible diversity, with rainforests, deserts, tropical savannahs and mountain ranges. This diversity is reflected in the many different types of rivers, streams and creeks that are the lifeblood of a dry and thirsty continent. Currently, however, we know that only about one third of Australia’s river systems remain in first-rate condition, another third show clear signs of degradation and, the remainder are already in poor condition and getting worse. Without water and the river systems that sustain its quality, our rural, urban and unique ecological communities cannot survive.
Date: 8 June 2010
Time: 5.30-7.00pm
Venue: National Archives of Australia
Cost: gold coin donation
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Building blocks for intellectually capable organizations
Many organizations describe themselves as innovative, creative and exhibiting 'best practice'. They rely heavily on the available data, information, skills, knowledge and experience of their 'knowledge workers' to survive in the post-GFC environment.
From Frederick Taylor to Tom Peters, Peter Senge and Peter Drucker; procedures, guides and models exist to describe how organizations should be structured and operate to reach a high level of capability. But are these just building stovepipes, bureaucracy and inflexibility into organizations which then lead to the sort of failures we have seen with Enron and GM?
The ability to cope with complexity and rapid change is now more important than ever and you are invited to bring along your favourite (or least favourite) management model or opinion for an interactive and engaging debate as we explore what are the most important aspects of intellectually capable organizations in the 21st century.
Facilitated by: David Williams, Convenor actKM
David has a Diploma in engineering and post graduate degrees in public sector management and project management. He is a Certified Practicing Project Director and an accredited workplace trainer and assessor. As well as being the convenor of the ACT KM forum, he is active in the IIM and AIPM.
Details:
When: 5:30 – 7:00 PM 11 May 2010
Where: Barton Room, National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Barton ACT
Cost: $5 donation
RSVP: to Karna O'Dea 02 621 61626 Email: Karna.O'Dea@ato.gov.au
More Information: David Williams 0412 237 695 convenor@actkm.org
User Adoption Strategies for Collaboration Technologies.
Melbourne KMLF is hosting Michael Sampson who will be discussing:
User Adoption Strategies for Collaboration Technologies.
Participating in this event will enable you to:
•Learn about the current state of play with user adoption strategies
•Develop your thinking about the user adoption strategy for collaboration technologies at your organization.
For more information about this FREE event go to: http://www.melbournekmlf.org/?p=191
Gov 2.0 and what it means for federal government departments
Topic: Gov 2.0 and what it means for federal government departments.
Location: AusAid 255 London Circuit, Ground Floor Meeting Room 5.
Date and Time: Friday 5 February 2010 2 to 4 pm.
RSVP Brad Hinton Brad.Hinton@ausaid.gov.au (The room only holds 20 people) so please respond if you intend to come along.
Cost: No cost, just the investment of 2 hours of your time
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Wicked Problems
Professor Valerie Brown is engaging the audience how social change is sending the management of knowledge in two different directions. One is the recognition that there are wicked problems that can't be solved within current thinking, so social learning is required. The other is the strong current towards collaboration in all fields of practice. Long-term decision-making on complex issues becomes a matter of collective inquiry.
Arthur Shelley on Why Knowledge initiatives fail
Arthur is leading us through a facilitated conversation around the complexity of getting a knowledge initiative aligned with strategy, understood by the stakeholders, actioning a project to make it happen, integrating the new concept into the organisation, embedding the knowledge into those that need to know it to get the desired outcomes and then demonstrating the benefits of the program (and proving your initiative is actually the generator of these benefits).
Keynote - Patrick Lambe
Patrick is exploring some of the barriers to the professionalisation of knowledge management. He is arguing that as a professional community we lack some of the key mechanisms that will make our practice better grounded: we work to a quick fix orientation, we use improvised and unstable methodologies, we rely on a focus on marketing and spin, we lack access to mass observation of KM practices and their effects. He is giving us some examples of 'magical' thinking (not) and how we are practiced in search if a justification for what we do. Patrick is linking KM to witchcraft and looking at the similar organizational responses to both.
actkm09 kicks off
Amanda Horne is the first speaker presenting on Positive Psychology - the scientific study of the conditions and processes that contribute to the flourishing or optimal functioning of people, groups and institutions. Amanda is covering the main messages, theories and concepts are and how this can be applied to knowledge management. She is discussing how we can be better KM managers, how we can enhance the KM community, or how we can improve knowledge and information transfer using Positive Psychology techniques.
Still places for actKM 09 Conference
There are still places available for actKM 09 which will be held on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th of October 2009 at the Australian National University (ANU) Canberra. Cost will be held at the very affordable price of $690 per person, representing the best value for money KM conference available.
actKM 09 is planned to look to the future and consider what the discipline of Knowledge Management in 2020 will be like. Will KM dissolve into general management practice, will it mature into the critical management discipline that many believe it should be or will it mutate into something we have yet to envisage in order to survive.
The keynote presentation Faith, Magic and Culture in Knowledge Management, is from Patrick Lambe from Singapore. Proceeding will be Amanda Horne’s presentation on how positive psychology pulls people (and their knowledge) together. We will have an Accelerated Networking activity from Optmice and experiential workshops on Collective Intelligence by Jay Hays and Tackling Wicked Problems by Valarie Brown.
The annual dinner and awards evening will include our famous collaboration cabaret and our after dinner speaker Dr David Vaine of Apparently KM PLC, tackles the generation gap in the workplace between Gen Y workers and the rest of us, and the implications for assuring the future of minimal impact KM.
From Melbourne, Frank Connolly will share his work on Thinking Skills and Arthur Shelley on why Knowledge initiatives fail. Dr Helen Hasan will lead an experiential ‘Back to the Future for KM’ activity and Mark Schenk’s ‘Story Slam’ activity is sure to entertain.
Laurie Lock Lee opens day 2 on Corporate Social Capital followed by the results of Sally Burford’s study on how large Australian government agencies are using KM standards, guides, frameworks and models.
The afternoon will include a hypothetical chaired by Nerida Hart on KM in 2020 followed by usability guru Andrew Boyd on managing the user experience for Gov 2.0. Matt Moore will once again entertain us with his experiences with lepers (real ones), consultants, salespeople, and bureaucrats.
The conference will finish up with an emotional presentation by Dr Siwan Lovett on People, Passion and Place that will expand our ideas about ‘knowledge’
The Program and Registration form are available from our 2009 conference page at http://www.actkm.org/actkm_2009_conference.php
Any other enquiries about the conference can be e-mailed to conference2009@actkm.org.
