TO: SIKM Leaders Community

 

Today we held our 30th monthly call.  Here is a summary.

 

Attendees

1. Raul Abril
2. Tom Barfield
3. Stephanie Barnes
4. Murray Clark
5. Jim Coogan
6. Raj Datta
7. Christian De Neef
8. Ives De Saeger
9. Bill Dixon
10. Marcus Funke
11. Stan Garfield
12. Kent Greenes
13. Emily Hoelting
14. Linda Hummel
15. Gian Jagai
16. Bill Kaplan
17. Karen Lyons (of Acquisition Solutions)
18. Doug Madgic
19. John McQuary
20. Mark Neff
21. Suzanne Nobile (of Fidelity)
22. Grace Pennington
23. Crystal Prince
24. John Smith
25. Wout Steurs
26. Chuck Stewart
27. Sanjay Swarup
28. Peter West

The call featured Christian De Neef and Ives De Saeger on "Knowledge & Innovation Management."  Their presentation is available at SIKM.20071118.ppt

The call was recorded.  Thanks to Christian and Ives for their excellent presentation.  You can continue the discussion by replying to this thread or starting a new one (e.g., "How to use KM to stimulate innovation").

 

Future Calls

• December 18, 2007: Stephanie Barnes - "ITIL and KM"
• January 15, 2008: Kent Greenes - "Facilitated best practice transfer"
• February 19, 2008: Marilyn Perry of EDS - Discussion on Motivating Leaders to Collaborate
• March 18, 2008: John McQuary of Fluor - "Results from the Knowvember Campaign"
• April 15, 2008: Jim Coogan of Boeing - "KM at Boeing"
• May 20, 2008: Stacie Jordan of Accenture - "Collaboration efforts at Accenture"
• June 17, 2008: Barry Dayton of 3M - "KM at 3M"
• July 15, 2008:  Steve Wieneke of GM - "Knowing What to Know"
• August 19, 2008: Bernadette Boas of Teradata - "Day in the Life Business Workflow"

This was an excellent and thought provoking presentation, thanks to
Christian and Ives for their time and efforts. A lingering concern
I have is the quality of the KM needed to support TRIZ/innovation
efforts. I wonder if an internal KM program is ever 'good enough'
to get the results demanded from innovation today? This is likely
the power of using the Goldfire software verbally referenced in the
presentation, but following the connection that Christian and Ives
have suggested between TRIZ/Process innovation and KM, the quality
of our innovation seems to be strongly linked to the quality of the
KM being connected to. Therefore, I think I'll be telling Management
there is still no "free lunch"; we need to build a strong, internal
KM for future success. Any other thoughts?

During yesterday's conference call, someone made reference to an
Austin-based organization but couldn't remember the name of the
company or its founder ... here they are ...

CycCorp - http://www.cyc.com/
"Cycorp's vision is to create the world's first true artificial
intelligence, having both common sense and the ability to reason with
it."

The founder and CEO is Doug Lenat.

Best regards,
Peter West