Progress of KM – Dave Snowden

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Mar 292011
 

The Society is very pleased to welcome back Dave Snowden from the UK to talk at the March monthly meeting of the Society.  The event will held in our usual location,  Conference Room 1, 22/F, United Centre, 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station).

Dave will talk about the progress of KM since it became part of the Management agenda for organizations in the 1990s. He will highlight the various stages of thought leadership in KM and what has been achieved and what has been learned. Dave will conclude with his views on where KM is headed, with plenty of time for discussion with the participants.

Dave Snowden is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and has pioneered a science based approach to individual and collective decision making in organisations.  His article A Leaders Guide to Decision Making was the HBR cover article in November 2007 and won an Academy of Management award as the best practitioner paper in the Organisational Development Division of the Academy of Management that same year.

KM developments in HK: Lessons learnt from over 100 projects

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Jan 252011
 

On the 25th January 2011 a seminar was jointly organised by the KMRC and the HK KMS.

At this talk Prof Eric Tsui, comprehensively summarised the KM and Intellectual Capital developments in Hong Kong with particular emphasis on the adoption and evolution of various KM techniques and systems in the city’s transformation into a knowledge-based economy.

A recorded webinar of the presentation can be found HERE

The presentation slides can be found on the KMRC website HERE

 

 

Transformational leadership in compliance education: A value innovation process

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Feb 242010
 

Presenter : Dr. Brian J. Garner, Emeritus Professor and CEO-Knowledge Networks Pty. Ltd.

Business and Governments, including University Communities, are demanding greater rethink on their investments in Education and Retraining, given the pressures for improved productivity, innovation skills and Self-directed Learning/Empowerment for Professional s and Entrepreneurs!

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Knowledge Management in Africa south of the Sahara

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Dec 032009
 

Presenter: Johann Kinghorn
Director of the Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

The battle cry of KM has reached Africa in the early years of this decade, and by now it has become a continental   movement which is driven forward by governments, more so than business. The result: everyone is now supposed to “do” KM. And the enthusiasm, at least at the level of rhetoric is ubiquitous.

The issue of appropriate knowledge in and for Africa is utterly absorbing but hugely complex. It is not possible to talk about knowledge in Africa without engaging with the problem of global power relations. Knowledge is, after all, power.

Johann Kinghorn, Kinghorn, Director of the Centre
by Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making at
Stellenbosh University, South Africa
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Innovation as a Strategic Core Competence

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Nov 182009
 

Speakers

  1. Professor Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society
  2. Yossi Pasher Yossi Pasher & Associates, Israel
  3. Dr. Edna Pasher Chief Editor of ‘Status — the Management Thinking Journal’

Innovation has become the most strategic core competence of organisations. In turbulent times competitive advantages do not last very long and in order to survive, organisations need to embark on a new journey of on-going strategic renewal. This is an extremely difficult goal and can be achieved only through focused and systematic innovation management.

Organisations find it difficult to cope with this goal and often confuse creativity and innovation, knowledge management and innovation management; wonder if and how to empower their people to become entrepreneurs – though they are hired employees; worry about the need to open up the organisation in order to innovate and hesitate how to manage risk in this threatening new business environment.

Edna and Yossi Pasher have helped organisations with these demanding issues for many years and have led the Knowledge Management and Innovation Management movement in Israel since its very beginning and they shared their knowledge with the participants in this workshop (and Israel is considered ‘‘The Second Silicon Valley”!) In addition – they actually practice what they preach – and since they believe that knowledge and innovation are created mostly in conversations – their workshop was highly interactive and engaged the
participants in understanding the problems they cope with, identified opportunities to cope with them and innovated for renewal and sustainability. Some of the subjects covered were:

  • Innovation as a strategic core competence
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Knowledge and Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Risk taking and Innovation
  • Customer-driven innovation
  • Technology-driven innovation
  • Innovation for sustainability
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