High Hopes – Pink Floyd, Knowledge Management & Driving Innovation in a complex organisation

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Oct 012015
 

The HKKMS and the KMIRC are happy to have Andrew Trickett, from Arup, to present at the October meeting of the societies.

Andrew’s talk will highlight some of the barriers in knowledge based organisations which affect effective knowledge sharing and innovation and will highlight the practices and tools that Arup utilise to capture and re-utilise knowledge and how this is a driver of innovation within Arup, Andrew will also discuss the lessons learnt.

Andrew Trickett, Global Rail Knowledge & Information Manager Arup

Andrew Trickett, Global Rail Knowledge & Information Manager Arup

 

Speaker : Andrew Trickett, Global Rail,, Knowledge and Information Manager
Date : Thursday, 22nd October ,  2015,
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: KPMG Insights Centre Collaboration Zone on 8th Floor, Princes Building, Central

The event is $200 for non members and free for members of the HKKMS or KMIRC.  Please complete the registration form below to reserve your place.   A synopsis of the talk and Andrew’s Bio can be also be found below.

 

Andrew presentation file can be downloaded from the following URL: HKKMS 22Oct2015 Andrew Trickett (3MB PDF)

Talk Synopsis

The talk will highlight the practices and tools that Arup utilise to capture and re-utilise knowledge and how this is a driver of innovation within Arup but also the lessons learnt.

Andrew will set out what he sees as the problems in today’s knowledge based organisations that act as inhibitors not only to sharing knowledge but also to innovation.

The talk emphasises the importance of the Human dimension and why creativity is for everyone in an organisation.

Focus will be placed on the work that Arup is undertaking in the global rail business with knowledge reviews during the life of the project. Andrew will be highlighting the role of knowledge reviews in the flow as a means of capturing JIT knowledge and how it is used to add value in Rail.

Andrew’s Bio
Andrew Trickett, Global Rail Knowledge & Information Manager Arup

Andrew is Knowledge and Information Manager within Arup’s global rail team and has over 15 years’ experience in the field of KM

Recognised globally across Arup as a subject matter expert on Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice (COP), Andrew has designed and delivered numerous innovative and engaging workshops with employees from numerous disciplines up to executive level. Andrew is particularly interested in the use of COP’s and project reviews as a means of capturing tacit knowledge from people,delivering operational efficiencies and driving innovation within an organisation. He has delivered KM talks in this area in London, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Johannesburg and San Francisco and also provided support in the area of COPS to MTR on a visiting basis

Andrew holds an MBA from Aston University

The new digital business challenges : The Science Of Reading Between The Lines

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Jul 122015
 

The July meeting of the Society, held in partnership with the KMIRC of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,  will be held on Thursday 16thJuly at our usual venue , 22/F United Centre, Admiralty .  We’re delighted to welcome a leading authority on Innovation from the UK who will talk about the work he is doing in Big Data.  A synopsis of the talk can be found below.

Darrell Mann, Systematic Innovation

Speaker : Darrell Mann, CEO, Systematic Innovation 
Date : Thursday 16th July ,  2015,
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:  22/F, United Centre, Admiralty

 

Darrell’s presentation from the event can be downloaded here (PDF 1.5MB)

Talk Synopsis

The Big Data Analytics industry generated close to £20B of turnover in 2014, excellent news for the Data providers, but not so good for the clients. Tangible evidence of value delivered from the Analytics is sparse indeed. Which leaves companies with a significant contradiction:  future success will increasingly be determined by Big Data, but the large majority of Big Data providers are not capable of delivering meaningful, actionable insight. The presentation will focus on this contradiction and its resolution. This will include an introduction to a newly released Big Data Analytics capability spectrum. The result of a six year academia-led programme of research into the inner workings of the Big Data Analytics industry, the spectrum is intended to provide prospective Big Data users with an objective means of comparing the variety of Data providers and matching their capabilities to the prevailing and emerging needs of the enterprise.

 

What is Innovation?

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Mar 182015
 
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Daniel Liebau Founder, Lightbulb Capital

Talk Abstract:

This talk aims to create some common language when we talk about Innovation. It also covers examples and discusses behavioural skills for Innovation, tools and Governance matters in the context of Multinational companies.

Speaker :  Dan Liebau
Date : Thursday, 26th March 2015
Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC, 22nd Floor, United Centre, Admiralty (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is $200 for non members and free for members.    Dan’s bio can also be found below.

Dan’s presentation file can be found on the following link 001-What-is-innovation

 

Speaker bio

Dan Liebau is the founder of Lightbulb Capital and has a passion for Innovation, Finance and Technology.

Before starting Lightbulb Capital Dan was COO and on the board of HSBC Securities (Singapore) Pte Limited – the entity to provide access to the Singapore Stock Market (SGX) for the Global Equities Business within HSBC. Dan was previously also the IT Head of HSBC’s Investment Bank in Singapore and Japan. His work experience spans ca. 15 years in Investment Banking Technology working for companies like UBS in Germany and the UK, Barclays Capital in Singapore and Tokyo as well as Close Brothers in his hometown Frankfurt.

For most of the time he was the “glue” between Technology and the various business departments.

He graduated from the Master of Science in Innovation program at Singapore Management University (SMU) in Singapore and holds a Master in Finance degree from IE business school in Madrid, Spain.

Motivation for knowledge sharing by expert participants

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Dec 082014
 
JingLi Cheng

JingLi Cheng

Motivation for knowledge sharing by expert participants in company hosted online user communities

Many organisations have implemented  online user communities in an effort to facilitate  knowledge sharing, but how to get these communities to be effective, more often than not, they fail to deliver on the potential. We are delighted to have JingLi Cheng coming to talk to the society around the subject of online communities and what motivates knowledge sharing.

Come prepared for an engaging evening and be prepared to share your experiences and questions on knowledge communities. 

Speaker :  Jingli Cheng
Date : 27th January 2015
Time:  6:30pm-8:00pm
Location:  HKGCC, 22nd Floor, United Centre, Admiralty (Admiralty MTR Station)

The event is $200 for non members and free for members.    Please complete the registration form to reserve your seat, spaces are limited.  Further details of the talk and JingLi’s bio can be found below.

JingLi’s presentation can be download here (4.2MB)

Synopsis

Company-hosted online user communities are increasingly popular as firms continue to search for ways to provide their customers with high quality and reliable support in a low cost and scalable way. Yet, empirical understanding of motivations for knowledge sharing in this type of online communities is lacking, especially with regard to an important subset of participants in these communities, the expert users.

Through in-depth interviews with 32 expert users from 9 countries in online user communities by two well known technology companies, Google and Symantec, this study found that the four key factors that motivated knowledge sharing by these expert users were (1) enjoyment of helping others, (2) learning, (3) passion for the hosting company and its products, and (4) affiliation.

This presentation will discuss the underlying mechanisms through which these four variables functioned to drive expert-level users to share their knowledge. Recommendations will also be provided for firms considering implementing a strategy of utilizing online user communities to provide authoritative, ongoing, low cost and scalable support for their customers.

About the speaker

Dr. Jingli Cheng has extensive experience applying learning design theories and best practices in various organizational settings to help learners improve their knowledge and skills. Before recently joining the University of Hong Kong to help produce its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), he worked as Learning Program Manager at Stanford University, the Hewlett Packard company and several other organizations in the United States, designing and managing learning programs in areas such as leadership and management, and professional and technical skills. He earned his PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, USA, and his research interests include motivation for knowledge sharing in online communities and community of practice as an approach to informal learning in organizational settings.

Intellectual capital and km practices in Finnish and Chinese companies

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Nov 292014
 

The last meeting of the 2014  will be a special event held in partnership with the KMIRC of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a talk from a Dr. Aino Kianto from Finland, a small country at the forefront of Knowledge Management.  Drinks and snacks will be served.

Dr. Aino Kianto will talk about  “Intellectual capital and knowledge management practices in Finnish and Chinese companies”. In this talk, she will present the results of a recent survey study identifying the key strengths and weaknesses in intellectual capital stocks and KM practices in firms in these two countries.

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Speaker : Dr. Aino Kianto
Date : Thursday 4th December,  2014,
Time: From 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location:  La Lune Bar and Restaurant, Shop 1, G/F, No 23-29 Wing Wo Street,  Sheung Wan.  

The charge for event is free for members of HKKMS and KMIRC and HK$300 for non-members.  Please complete the registration form below to reserve your place.

 

Short bio

Dr. Aino Kianto (née Pöyhönen), holds a full professorship in Knowledge Management in the School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She also is the academic director for the Master Programme in Knowledge Management and Leadership in the School of Business. Her teaching and research focus on knowledge management, intellectual capital, creativity, innovation and organizational renewal.

She has authored and co-authored more than 100 academic articles, papers, books and book chapters related with these topics. She has been called one of the most prominent academic figures in the field of intellectual capital and has received several awards for research excellence, e.g. three of her papers in Journal of Intellectual Capital have been recognized with Emerald’s Highly Commended Award. She has been involved in a responsible role in 9 different research projects dealing with knowledge management, intellectual capital and innovation, e.g. she is the leader of the project Intellectual Capital and Value Creation where knowledge-based value creation is examined in 8 countries.

Professor Kianto’s expertise spans outside the academia: e.g. she is the inventor of the ORCI-method, used for assessing and developing organizational renewal capability in more than 100 organizations across Europe, has worked with the Future committee of the Finnish parliament and regularly lectures for companies and practitioners.

 

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