A Community of Practice - Learning and Working in the Knowledge Management Community
Tuesday-Thursday January 22 - 24, 2008 at Holiday Inn, Arlington, VA.
Applications of complexity, narrative, and sense-making, lead by Dave Snowden, Founder of Cognitive Edge and presented by Michael Cheveldave of NuOptiks Consulting and Wayne Zandbergen of Group W Inc.
10% discount if you register as Boston KM Forum.
For more information email Michael Cheveldave or call: (250) 304-8258.
Thursday, December 20, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m, Jarg, (MetraTech Building), 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 230, Waltham. Directions.
Speaker: Carol Rozwell, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
Program Description: Innovation is the current corporate buzz word, but companies need to move beyond the hype and derive value from the talent inherent in their organizations. As companies get serious about innovation, they often establish an ideation program for idea generation. But unless they plan ahead, they will get trapped by five common pitfalls. This session will explore the best practices employed by organization that have established successful idea generation (ideation) programs.
Biography: Carol Rozwell is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in the Manufacturing Industry vertical at Gartner. Ms. Rozwell focuses on the Life Sciences sector (pharmaceutical, biotech and medical products companies) examining the impact of technology and standards on business models, processes and channel relationships. Before joining the Manufacturing vertical, Ms. Rozwell supported the Electronic Commerce/Electronic Business research area. She brings to her role extensive practical experience as an implementer of buy-side and sell-side E-commerce systems that is augmented by positions in sales, consulting, and strategic alliance management.
PLEASE Register even if you are not certain you can attend so we have an accurate estimate of attendees for handouts. Registration
Monday, November 26, 4:00-5:30 pm at 3 Cambridge Center, MIT Building NE20, Room 336 Conference Room.
ENTERPRISE 2.0: A PROGRESS REPORT AND PROPOSED RESEARCH AGENDA
Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business School
Abstract
This talk will discuss Enterprise 2.0, or the use of emergent social software platforms within organizations. In addition to providing examples and case studies, the talk will propose a theoretical base for framing the impact of Enterprise 2.0. The presentation will conclude by giving open questions that are of interest to practitioners in this area, and describing how these questions could be addressed by academic research.
Speaker bio
Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals. He launched the first HBS faculty blog, which examines the impact of IT on businesses and their leaders.
He was awarded a Doctorate in Business Administration at HBS in 1999. He also holds dual MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Management from MIT as a Leaders for Manufacturing fellow, and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Humanities from MIT.
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.
We’ll lead off by asking why we search and what we search. Then we’ll explore what we tend to do with content after we have found it. The technology options are more numerous than ever, alerting others about our discoveries, applying business intelligence, using text analytics tools, and social tagging are the most prominent applications. But is technology always the best answer for leveraging the content we unearth or are their better approaches to sorting out the valuable from the “merely interesting?”
Joseph Carrabis posted an analysis of how many people contributing to corporate wikis believe the information they’re entering is accurate or not. Check it out at his blog.
A survey is being conducted from the UK by Laurie Williams, a seasoned project manager. She is completing her Masters dissertation with an aim to establish whether knowledge management allied with good project management techniques can aid IT project success.
Visitors to our site who are actively using a project management technique are invited to participate at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=t9m_2bf6e41EWetpZsr2KDzA_3d_3d
Two programs that may be of serious interest to our members are being held on November 15, at MIT, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. Both are free. Rather than ask a speaker to compete with these events we suggest that you attend one or both where many of our regular participants are sure to turn up.
If you missed the Piccard program registration on November 9th, you can still catch him at Logan later on the 15th by registering on Nov. 13th. Encore Piccard lecture: LOCATION: Logan Airport Boston Media Room (located on departure level between Terminals B & C) Thursday, November 15 6:00 pm, with Swiss style reception after the lecture for attendees offered by the Consulate of Switzerland RSVP: Free admission; please RSVP by November 13, 2007, to aresca@massport.com thank you.
No registration is required for the Wikipedia program.
Go to both events and join up with colleagues for a quick round-table and dinner before the evening program.
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 7:00 - 9:00 pm at MIT Tang Center, Room E51-325 corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets and Memorial Dr. Cambridge, MA.
Greater Boston Chapter of the ICCA. Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy, Joint Meeting with GBC/ACM and IEEE Boston Computer Society. Invited Speakers: Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg,Research Scientists of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab.
No Charge and no registration required.
Thursday, November 15, 3:00 pm, with Swiss style reception for attendees from 4:30 - 5:00 pm.
Bertrand Piccard’s ‘Space Grant Lecture’ at M.I.T., sponsored by Swissnex Boston (formerly SHARE), Consulate of Switzerland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 26-100, Compton Laboratories, access via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge. Free admission.
Further details
RSVP by November 9, 2007 via sending email to emil@shareboston.org
Thursday, November 15, 3:00 pm, with Swiss style reception for attendees from 4:30 - 5:00 pm.
Bertrand Piccard’s ‘Space Grant Lecture’ at M.I.T., sponsored by Swissnex Boston (formerly SHARE), Consulate of Switzerland at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 26-100, Compton Laboratories, access via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge. Free admission.
Further details
RSVP by November 9, 2007 via sending email to emil@shareboston.org
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