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Beyond Knowledge Management:
Time is almost more
important than money today, in the hectic world of delivering products and
services. Synchroni's Forum maximises the return on
investment of time in acquiring expertise and enhancing performance.
KM as a 'discipline' or management tool has been on
a journey over the last 10 or so years and much has changed in the way
management approach the subject. Whilst systems are recognised as important
enablers, it is acknowledged that new generation KM is:
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Less about data and more about the social nature of knowledge
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Less about capture and retrieval and more about innovating and
sharing
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Less about a KM function or 'entity' and more about principles
and processes that are embedded in 'the way we do business'
The Synchroni Forum brings together organisations that are asking similar
questions and want to accelerate
their learning through linking with peers with aligned interests. Examples of
common topics that will be designed into the current Forum programme of activity
are:
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Leading Organisational Change: Focusing on the
challenge of leading change in public and private sector organisations and the
issues around building, retaining and exploiting knowledge in this context.
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Knowledge from the Customer Interface: How to
build relationships within the supply chain that can deliver knowledge and
value.
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Performance Measurement: Exposing members to
practical ways to measure value created in the organisation. The aim will be
to explore how this can be done, the level of benefit and pointers towards
tried and tested approaches, tools and techniques.
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Retaining Competency and Rightsizing the
Organisation: Within cycles of rationalisation and reorganisation, how do you
design for optimal capacity and capability- what are the challenges and
responses around knowledge access and retention?
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Reuse of Learning in Project Based
Organisations: While many public and private sector organisations have adopted
multi-disciplinary project based models - how is learning captured and
leveraged in such environments?
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Corporate Memory / Organisational IQ:
How can we cost-efficiently identify and manage the key knowledge assets that will
support the organisation in the future and in its legacy obligations. Do
technological tools deliver and how best are processes and behaviour changes
embedded?
The Forum is in its eighth year and acts also as a vehicle for players from
public and private sectors to cross fertilise their thinking and benchmark
their activity. The following shows examples of the players involved and some
of their views on the Forum:
"The KM Forum has been of more practical use to
us at the BBC than all the many conferences we have been to on Knowledge
Management."
Hilary Rowland, BBC
"Inspiring ideas, terrific conversations - great company,
brilliant contacts."
Chris Woods, Head of Innovation, Wates.
"The network of like-minded people provided a richness
of learning which I know you don't get from any course or seminar."
Graeme MacKay, ICL
"The Knowledge Management Forum provided us with a
solid foundation - very quickly we were able to use the network,
discussions, case studies, references, and the experiences of others
to ensure that we got through the first stages of our learning curve
in a matter of months. We could not have achieved this without the
Forum."
Alison Smith, Scottish Homes |
The Synchroni new Forum programme
invites you to join with other Forum members
such as The Royal Bank of Scotland, DTI, Health & Safety Executive amongst
others in focusing on this challenge.
Alternatively, for further details
contact
us. |
