Friday, Sept. 4, 2009 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. CANCELLED
TOPIC: N/A
Next Friday meeting will be Oct. 2, 2009. Topic to be announced.
Next meeting will be Sept. 17th featuring Kate Pugh.
Archive for August, 2009
Eliciting Knowledge and Putting it to Work:
Traction Software’s fourth annual Traction User Group Meeting - TUG 2009 13-16 October 2009 in Providence RI
Carmen Medina - Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA - will will deliver a thought provoking TUG 2009 opening keynote on Enterprise 2.0 and the Context of Work.
There will be customer talks by Alcoa, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a top tier management consulting firm, and others.
Author and Future Changes founder Stewart Mader will deliver a closing keynote Designing for Collaboration.
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions.
SPEAKER: Katrina Pugh, Align Consulting
TOPIC: You are a consultant or KM practitioner and you’re tired of seeing good knowledge go to waste. The fault is not the quality of the knowledge, but how (and with whom) you elicit it. The Facilitated Knowledge Elicitation approach combines learning principles, like involvement and ownership, with business priorities to surface valued tacit knowledge and get it into circulation. We will discuss two recent case studies (Energy and Healthcare), and engage in a lively discussion about audience members’ own experiences with knowledge-elicitation. PRESENTATION SLIDES
BIOGRAPHY: President of AlignConsulting, Katrina (Kate) Pugh has extensive management consulting and industry experience in the IT, healthcare, energy, and financial services sectors. Kate specializes in business strategy, knowledge-based transformation, and multi-stakeholder alignment, and served in Knowledge Management leadership with IBM, Fidelity, JPMorganChase, and Intel Corporation. Kate has an MS/MBA in from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a BA in Economics from Williams College, and is a trained project manager, facilitator, mediator and LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt.
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- Cheryl Landes: Using PDFs in Indexing
- Steve Csipke: Searching PDFs: One Indexer’s Experience
- Seth Maislin: A is for Arbitrary
Open to members and nonmembers.
WHEN: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 9:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration and continental breakfast from 9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.; program begins at 9:45 a.m.
LOCATION: Large Meeting Room at the Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts.
COST: $25.00, which includes a continental breakfast and buffet lunch.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION deadline: Friday, September 11
The REGISTRATION FORM and DETAILS (with a link to parking information and directions) are on the NEASI Web site at http://www.newenglandindexers.org/events.htm.
QUESTIONS; Steve Csipke, NEASI President, steveindexer@hotmail.com.
We have received a number of communications at the Boston KM Forum about the availability of degree and certificate programs on KM. Kent State University has such a program since Fall 2007, a graduate certificate and master of science degree with a focus in knowledge management has been offered through the IAKM for individuals seeking to improve skills and employment opportunities in the knowledge management field. Online courses link students, instructors, and guest speakers on a global scale and offer the flexibility of coursework completion at times convenient to the student.
Program description: http://iakm.kent.edu/programs/online-options/
Furthermore: SLA Members who enroll in a online Knowledge Management Certificate or Master of Science Program with a concentration in Knowledge Management receive a 10% discount to courses in the Knowledge Management Program at Kent State University (see http://iakm.kent.edu/sla).
Thursday, August 20, 2009, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451. Directions.
SPEAKER: Jack Vinson, Consultant, P3 Consulting Group
TOPIC: This is intended to be an open discussion at the meeting. Jack will kick things off with some thoughts, inspired by Art Murray’s KMWorld articles on An Opportunity for Real Change (part 1 and 2). The idea behind these articles and our discussion will be the structure(s) needed for knowledge management to make sense in our organizations as we move ahead.
An Opportunity for Real Change (Part 1)
An Opportunity for Real Change (Part 2)
BIOGRAPHY: Jack Vinson has had a varied career with roles ranging from traditional chemical engineering (PhD discipline) to internal consulting to teaching to product management to consulting. Jack’s current interests lie in knowledge management and Theory of Constraints as applied to organizations as well as what individuals can do to improve their own practices. He’s currently a consultant with P3 Consulting Group, where the focus is on helping companies align their internal processes with their goals in the marketplace.
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