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Last night Parsons Brinckerhoff Asia Pacific was awarded actKM’s Gold Award for excellence in knowledge management. Thanks to the efforts of Cory Banks and the rest of PB’s KM professionals, the company has had some very tangible achievements in getting its 15,000 people world-wide to work a lot more closely together […]
October 11, 2011
For presenter Sha Reilly of Origin Energy, talent and expertise management came to mind immediately as one of the things that keeps CEOs awake. She said it’s an important topic for CEOs because: post-GFC growth is a priority they are concerned about skills shortages especially in growth industries like mining skills shortages lead to knowledge […]
October 11, 2011
Here’s an overview of Matthew Cain’s presentation on what the Australian Army is doing in knowledge management. A brief history of knowledge management in Army People seem to manage knowledge differently from how they manage anything else, in a very piecemeal way. For example, Navy and RAAF are both good at capturing lessons but not […]
October 11, 2011
Matthew Tukaki of the Sustain Group presented on change management using as a case study a succession project he conducted for Drake. The presentation notes will be available on Slideshare and here are some snippets from the Q&A session at the end. — When you went out and spoke to people about the coming organisational […]
October 10, 2011
Ian Fry’s presentation came out of a discussion that happened at actKM 2010 in Canberra and its theme was “toughen up”. He says knowledge management professionals aren’t hard enough on themselves, especially regarding measuring their results. Apparently it’s common to say that knowledge and its management is immeasurable. Ian says that is weak. More on […]
October 10, 2011
Arthur Shelley facilitated an ongoing inter-connected conversation where attendees split into six or so groups and each was given two discussion topics to explore. The full list of topics was: Performance Staff turnover Lost knowledge Aging workforce Constant change Work-life balance Relationships, stakeholders and networks Efficiencies Growth Organisational politics Restructures Competition Reputation and social responsibility […]
October 10, 2011
The conference’s keynoter, Phil Ruthven, is CEO of IBISWorld, an Australian market research company that specialises in long-range industry and business forecasting. So he was a good person to get to speak about, well, industry and business forecasting. His presentation was based on decades of experience (he founded IBISWorld in 1971) and an ability to […]
October 10, 2011
David Williams opened the conference by acknowledging the traditional owners and thanking everyone—the RMIT school of business and Arthur Shelley who arranged the facility, sponsors Charles Sturt University and Konica Minolta, and NSW KM which has sponsored a masters student to come to Melbourne and present to the group. I don’t think I’ve ever seen […]
October 10, 2011
Starting today, I’ll be live blogging and tweeting a national knowledge management conference, actKM, which is being held at RMIT in Melbourne. You can also follow the conference account: @actkmeventsand one of the organisers, Cory Banks: @corza. Or completely ignore it all because you’re not that geeky. — Find all actKM posts here. Image credit: Memory […]
October 11, 2011
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