Boston KM Forum

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m, Jarg, (MetraTech Building), 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 230, Waltham. Directions.

SPEAKER: Richard Adler, PhD, President, DecisionPath

TOPIC:KM theorists regularly despair over how-to expertise as tacit knowledge that is difficult to articulate, much less retain and transfer. Unfortunately, how-to knowledge is more directly actionable than what-is and who knows content. This presentation will describe ForeTell, a framework for capturing and deploying tacit performance-based knowledge about critical decision-making. Specifically, ForeTell codifies and leverages expertise regarding: how to characterize complex problems; formulate strategies for responding to those situations; and analyze those candidates to identify the most robust course of action. ForeTell combines scenario planning methods with what-if simulation: the resulting “test drives” help users explore the likely consequences of proposed strategies in a low risk virtual environment, before executing them.

ForeTell has been applied to diverse decision support problems such as managing organizational change, competitive drug marketing strategy, counter-terrorism preparedness, and IT portfolio management. We will illustrate ForeTell by demonstrating one of these “knowledge engines” based on audience preferences. Presentation

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Richard Adler is the President of DecisionPath. He developed the company’s ForeTell software platform for knowledge-based decision support. He currently directs development of ForeTell solutions. Richard was previously a partner at CSC Consulting, where he created two Communities of Practice and supporting repositories. He also architected CSC’s component framework and B2B Internet marketplace solutions. Earlier, Richard directed research for Symbiotics, a communication middleware startup, and held technical staff positions at MITRE and Control Data Corporation.

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