New Ways of Working that Require New Ways of Organising

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Jun 102014
 

 

In the US close to 40% of workers are virtual for at least part of the week – new ways of working. And they are knowledge workers – a new kind of work. Both growing demographics call for new ways to engage workers. Dr. Dixon will provide examples of how organizations like Cisco, Adobe, and even some government organizations are finding alternatives to the Bureaucratic model of top down control and formal rules. These organizations are disciplined and empowering, focused and opportunistic, coordinated and decentralized.

Nancy Dixon

Nancy Dixon
Common Knowledge Associates

 

Speaker :  Nancy Dixon
Date : Monday 23rd June 2014,
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is free for members and $200 for non members.  Please complete the registration form to reserve your place.   Come prepared for an engaging evening.  More information about Nancy can be found below.

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About Nancy

Working with Common Knowledge Associates, a company she founded in 2000, Dr. Dixon has been instrumental in developing and delivering KM strategies, implementation plans, and training in a wide range of government and non-profit organizations (e.g. US Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, USAID) as well as corporate clients (Huawai, Bose, Towers Perrin). She has a particular interest in creating conversations that exploit the collective knowledge of an organization, particularly in the areas of intelligence, healthcare, and aid work in developing countries. Her skills as a researcher, developed through 15 years as a tenured professor at the George Washington University, enable her to provide insight into what has worked with knowledge management.

Lessons from the Tunnel Face: Improving project management capability

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Feb 122014
 
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For the February meeting we have the pleasure of welcoming the MTR’s Danal Blessis on improving project management through knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation.

Danal Blessis, MTR

Event details: 

Speaker :  Danal Blessis
Date : 25th February 2014,
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is free for members and $200 for non members.  Please complete the registration form to reserve your place.   Come prepared for an engaging evening.

 

Talk Synopsis

How can a mature organisation with its own cultural legacy change from a norm of knowledge hoarding to one of knowledge sharing? This talk will focus on lessons learnt as a knowledge worker in a major Hong Kong corporation, including some of the pains and some of the gains.

Danal will discuss how change management techniques combined with solid information architecture have been employed to aid Hong Kong’s multi-project railway expansion programme, achieving organisational change to enable improvements and innovations through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

The talk will focus on the application of practical KM tools and how the programme continues to evolve year on year to address current challenges and business needs.

Danal’s Bio

Danal Blessis is the programme manager for Innovation and Knowledge Management in MTR Corporation’s Projects Division. With 18 years in the railway industry in Hong Kong, following the merger of the MTR and KCR operations in 2007 Danal has been focused on developing and embedding best practice in knowledge management to effect improvements in collaboration and innovation across a multi-project organisation. He received his BS in Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the US State of North Carolina. Danal is an active member of the HKKMS and is President of the Duke University Alumni Association in Hong Kong.

Event details: 

Speaker :  Danal Blessis
Date : 25th February 2014, from 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is free for members and $200 for non-members.  Please complete the registration form below
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How “DNA” defeats efforts to achieve sustainability

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Sep 022013
 
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How the “DNA” of civilisation defeats efforts to achieve sustainability and long term corporate survival

Sustainability

Speaker: Will Sutherland

Date :  Friday 13th September

Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm

Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

All human action and decision take place within a powerful cultural framework made up from institutions, habit and law/regulation. The familiarity of these constraints often makes them invisible. As a result social and behavioural scientists have promoted disciplines such as economics, political science and psychology as a means of explaining how people behave. The speaker will argue that both at National and Corporate levels this ignorance of cultural realities leads to many unwanted and potentially life threatening consequences. The solution lies in the new and (as yet) undeveloped science of “cultural engineering”.

Our Speaker Will Sutherland, from the UK worked both as a civil servant and then management consultant before becoming an author on, and living exponent of, self-sufficiency and sustainability.

As this is a special event , red wine, soft drinks and snacks will be served.

The event is free for HKKMS members and $300 for non-members..

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Speaker: Will Sutherland
Date :  Friday 13th September
Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is free for HKKMS members and $300 for non-members..

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Speaker – Will Sutherland, author of “The Councillor’s Handbook” and joint author of “The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency” published by Dorling and Kindersly

Will Sutherland has had a life long interest in the processes which lead to the collapse of human civilisations. After studying Mathematics and Law at Cambridge University he spent 10 years in the Whitehall Civil service before moving on to become a Senior Consultant with Ernst and Young. In 1992 he played a key role in the creation of the “Alternative Treaties” written by over 175 worldwide NGOs after the first Earth Summit and now posted on the United Nations website. After this he left the business world and moved to Ireland where he grew most of his own food and began to teach the skills of “self-sufficiency”. He has talked and written widely on the institutional processes which create a cultural prison preventing the achievement of sustainability.

A recap of Will’s fascinating discussion piece and presentation can be downloaded from the following URL.

 

HKKMS event of Sustainability and culture

HKKMS event on Sustainability and culture

Will Sutherland’s HKKMS Talk 13th Sept 2013

Ignorance Management in hospitals: A google a day keeps doctors’ ignorance away?

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Jul 302013
 
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Prof. Dr. WilkesmannSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Wilkesmann from TU University of Dortmund
Date :  Thursday 15th August
Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

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In Knowledge Management the attention is mainly focused on the knowledge side and not on the ignorance side. In our daily work, we have to deal with incomplete information. Mostly, we have no time or no resources to gather all relevant information. For that reason we should take ignorance and dealing with strategies to overcome ignorance in organizations more seriously. In this sense we should also extend our understanding of knowledge management by thinking about managing what we do not know. Taking this into account, we have to shift from Knowledge Management to Ignorance Management.

Within her talk, Prof. Wilkesmann will show how experts like doctors deal with ignorance and which tools (e.g. apps, google, critical incident reporting systems) really help to overcome their ignorance. Prof. Wilkesmann will present some short and crisp as well as practice-oriented research results, which base on qualitative interviews with 50 doctors and a comprehensive survey with 2,853 doctors currently employed in hospitals, conducted in the spring of 2012.

The event will be interactive and discussion focused.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Ignorance Management in hospitals: A google a day keeps doctors’ ignorance away?

Date :  Thursday 15th August
Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC Conference Room , 22/F, United Centre 95 Queensway (Admiralty MTR Station)

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Prof. Dr. WilkesmannMaximiliane (Maxie) Wilkesmann is assistant professor at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science at the TU University of Dortmund in Germany. She received her PhD in 2009 at the Ruhr-University of Bochum for which she has been awarded a scholarship from the Hans-Boeckler Foundation. In 2012, the co-authored paper “Knowledge transfer as interaction between experts and novices supported by technology“ has been awarded in the category “Outstanding Paper Award Winner” of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 in the category “highly recommended paper”. Her research interests include knowledge management, knowledge transfer, organization studies, teaching and learning with new media, and dealing with ignorance in organizations.

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