Smart talk presentation 4

Guy St. Clair and Barrie Levy propose a new approach called "knowledge services" for managing organizations in the 21st century. Knowledge services converges information management, knowledge management, and strategic learning into a single operational function to ensure the highest levels of knowledge sharing. The knowledge strategist is responsible for defining the knowledge culture and leading the organization as a knowledge culture. Critical success factors for knowledge services include conducting a knowledge audit to evaluate how well knowledge is shared, leading change instead of managing it, and facilitating collaboration across the organization.

This guide gives the big picture about how to implement a KM program in an organization. Take it as a checklist of what has to be taken into account in such implementation.

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Provides one way to overlay sustainability (people, profit, planet) elements onto a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Strategy Map. Followed up by how to use the Communications Matrix to help plan your Outreach and Communications.

Great ideas, innovation, and sustainable solutions are what we all hope for when corporations and nonprofits come together to achieve a goal. The results of high quality partnerships can be powerful, yet the hard work required to discover and effectively maximize the strengths of each organization requires creativity, discipline, and commitment. Are you looking for new insights on how to build and sustain strategic partnerships? Do you want to better equip your organization to face potential partnership obstacles?

Drive Business Transformation thru Enterprise Collaboration & Gamification - Enterprise 2.0 Conference

The document defines and describes various knowledge management tools and techniques including: 1) An after-action review evaluates and captures lessons learned through an informal discussion after a project or activity. 2) A case study provides key qualitative and quantitative information from a project through a structured written examination. 3) A community of practice is a network for people with common interests or problems to explore solutions and share ideas and good practices. 4) A gone well, not gone well gathers candid feedback at the end of an event through an open discussion of what worked and didn't work.

This document summarizes a presentation on developing effective virtual teams. It discusses strategies for structuring a constructive virtual culture with trust, tools for creating and developing virtual teams, and how to become an effective virtual leader. The presentation covers challenges of virtual collaboration like lack of physical presence and solutions like using collaboration tools and establishing clear goals and roles. It emphasizes that virtual leaders need skills like open-mindedness, communication, and empowering their teams to succeed in a remote environment. The overall objective is to provide inspiration and strategies for teams to work productively even when members are geographically dispersed.

The document discusses knowledge management and the importance of intrinsic motivation for sharing tacit knowledge. It addresses some key points: 1) Technology should be seen as the infrastructure to enable knowledge sharing, not the focus of knowledge management itself, which is about people and culture. 2) Intrinsic motivation is important for sharing tacit knowledge that is difficult to codify. Extrinsic rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation if not carefully implemented. 3) Successful knowledge management relies on motivating employees to willingly share tacit knowledge through addressing their intrinsic needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness.

The document discusses a research project aimed at developing a system called MIKE (Most Important Knowledge and Expertise) to automatically capture tacit knowledge and expertise within an organization. The project seeks to embed such a system in everyday workflows to increase visibility of tacit knowledge assets. It outlines the major research objectives and projected outcomes. A pilot project was designed involving personnel records, field trip reports, and emails from a federal agency to test MIKE's design principles in an enterprise environment.

This document provides information about a 3-day leadership training conference titled "Leadership in Times of Change: Using Communication and Creativity to Engage High-Performing Teams". The conference will focus on refining interpersonal communication, engaging employees, and using innovation and creativity. It will take place from March 29-31, 2010 in Arlington, VA and offers up to 18 CPE credits. Attendees will learn skills like communicating vision, fostering collaboration, leading change, and developing a creative culture. The training is intended for C-level executives, presidents, vice presidents, directors and managers.

Provides guidelines to get the most from online and offline (and mixed) collaborations. Material presented at Booth Alumni Club of Chicago event April 21 2010