On the 14th April a seminar on ICM was conducted jointly with the KMRC.
The speakers were Leif Edvinsson and Cherie Lui.
Apr 142011
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.
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
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!
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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