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
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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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 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).
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.
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.
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.
Dave Snowden is heading for Australia to present his Leading Through Complexity Seminar in Perth on the 27 July and an Advanced Practitioner and Researcher Workshop in Melbourne on 31 July. In between we have persuaded him to present a synopsis on 10 Government KM Projects (what they did), what impact they had on their organisations and how they measured the outcome.
As always with Dave, you can expect a free-flowing, semi-structured and often controversial presentation with opportunities for interaction from the audience.
Date: Wednesday 29th July 2009
Time: 3:00 - 5.00 pm
Location: The Drawing Room (turn right as you go through reception)
University House, Cnr Eggelston and Garran Rds, Acton
Australian National University
Cost: entry is by gold coin donation for afternoon tea.
Please RSVP to David Williams at convenor@actkm.org
About Dave Snowden
Dave Snowden is a major figure in the movement towards integration of humanistic approaches to knowledge management and sensemaking. He is generally held to be one of the leading practitioners and thinkers in the field of a naturalising (science based) approached to decision theory and sensemaking. Well known for his work on the role of narrative and complexity theory in sense-making, he is an entertaining speaker and a formidable realist, and one of the few thought leaders who can bring together the academic and practitioner perspectives into a single, comprehensible purview.
He is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, which focuses on the development of the theory and practice of sensemaking. Cognitive Edge exists to integrate academic thinking with practice in organisations throughout the world and operates on a network model working with Academics, Government, Commercial Organisations, NGOs and Independent Consultants. The Cynefin framework, which lies at the heart of the approach, has been recognized by several commentators as one of the first practical application of complexity theory to management science.
Presenter: Paul James (Country Energy) and Bill Tarlinton (Opals Software)
Subject: Knowledge transfer using real-time Simulators for Operational Training in Electricity Distribution Networks
Paul and Bill will discuss the evolution and application of a ‘flight simulator’ for the operation of Country Energy’s electrical distribution network, one of the world's largest. The simulator was developed to overcome a long-standing problem that exists with ensuring that System Operation’s staff have the training and experience needed to manage the network. An additional problem exists with the testing of business processes capable of dealing effectively with rare events, such as major bush fires, outages or system
Time: 5.30 - 7.00pm
Location: Lyons Room, National Archives, Canberra Australia - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
Presenter: Mark Spain of Global Learning. - The Emerging Story of enACT for the Future
Mark will discuss strengthening links and capabilities in communities of practice for sustainability across multiple localities. It will include the role of dialogue, story telling, creativity and building trust to share knowledge and build sustained commitment when planning action to solve complex problems.
Location: National Archives, Canberra Australia, from 5.30 pm to 7 pm - gold coin donation for drinks and nibbles.
mark@globallearning.com.au p 02 6249 1344 m 0404 411 353
http://globallearning.com.au - Facilitating change, leadership and innovation
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