The Fifth NetIKX meeting of 2010 will be held on Wednesday 29 September, at 2:00 pm, at The Intellectual Property Office, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3HF
Managing personal information and knowledge needs in demanding organisational times – How individuals can cope within organisations, in an information rich and time poor environment.
This meeting will be preceded by the NetIKX AGM. Further details will follow
Speakers: Stephen Dale, Mark Field
Date: 29-09-2010
Location and time: The Intellectual Property Office, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3HF, (nearest underground station Tottenham Court Road) 2.00pm registration for a 2.30 start
Meeting details: Managing personal information and knowledge needs in demanding organisational times – How individuals can cope within organisations, in an information rich and time poor environment.
Overview:
Successful organisations and the individuals within them need to adapt to an increasingly challenging environment. The challenges are not only economic, political, social and technological, but also related to the wealth (and volume) of information and knowledge available to us. This exponential growth in the information and knowledge we receive and generate daily, making sense of the content, indeed sifting through the content to find the nuggets of value, and then managing it appropriate is increasingly a challenge. It demands new ways of working.
This seminar will provide alternative, and perhaps provocative, perspectives on the challenges that organisations, and the individuals within them, face in managing their personal information and knowledge needs in today?s demanding times. It will suggest some tools and behaviors that can help individuals manage their information and knowledge more effectively within organisations.
Learning objectives:
? To gain a common understanding of the challenges that organisations and individuals within them face in managing their information and knowledge needs
? To gain insights on some tools and behaviors that individuals could use to manage their information and knowledge more effectively within organisations.
? To share ideas on how we can respond to organisations? requirements for increased efficiency, value for money and how to get more from less
Speakers and topics:
Thriving as a 21st Century Information Professional
1. Stephen Dale. The volume of information continues to grow at an exponential rate; new tools, products and web services appear almost daily. The recession has hit hard but nothing seems to stem the tide of innovation. If anything, the economic climate has fuelled even greater innovation and allowed companies to be even more radical in the way they use the information tools and platforms now available. These are challenging times for the information professional. We all need to be able to work smarter, acquiring and developing the skills to become more effective knowledge and information workers. The talk/presentation will pinpoint the tools and behaviours that can help us develop and sharpen our skills and embrace the opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing now available. Specifically:
– how to develop the filters and lenses to overcome ‘information overload’
– understanding the barriers to engagement and collaboration and how to overcome them
– how we can break down the information/knowledge silos that exist in the organisation
– how ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘Social Media’ tools can support personalized learning and self development
2. Mark Field. Knowledge management teams have been seen as specialist function delivering a set of discreet services. This raises the question of who actually ?owns? knowledge management in organisations. Mark?s presentation will challenge us to:
– Consider where knowledge management should sit and more importantly what would make that ?place? sustainable: capable of generating business value and improving exploitation of corporate knowledge?
– Consider how we raise the overall level of competence in managing and exploiting personal knowledge in the organisational setting, such that the individual benefits from the transaction
– Consider how we are able to harness and co-ordinate the enabling functions for meaningful personal knowledge management
Timetable:
14:00 – 14:30 Registration & AGM
14:30 – 15:15 Speakers
15:15- 15:45 Tea
15:45 – 16:45 Syndicate session
16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions
17:00 Refreshments and a glass of wine
18:00 Close
If you are a NetIKX Member or join NetIKX now <http://www.netikx.org/membership_join.html> there is no charge. Non Members are welcome to attend at a charge of ?50.
Special Offer: If you have not attended a NetIKX meeting before we are offering a reduced fee of ?25, refundable if you join, so that anyone interested in joining NetIKX can come along and try us out.
Speaker biography: Stephen Dale:
Stephen is both an evangelist and practitioner in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Media applications to support personal learning and knowledge sharing. He was the business lead and information architect for the community of practice platform currently deployed across the UK local government sector, the largest network of its type, and continues to play a key role in the support of virtual communities of practice for value creation in public services. He is a regular contributor to professional journals and magazines and is Chairman of the Online Information Executive Committee.
Mark Field:
Mark Field is an information professional with over 30 years of experience, specialising in service development and the application of information science to business process and corporate information resources. His projects have frequently focussed on deriving information structures which identify lessons learnt and emergent communities of practice. Mark set up the Taxonomy network, a London, UK-based network for information professionals, consultants and information industry providers to share current practises and developments in enterprise taxonomies. Mark is a founder member of the British Standards Institute Knowledge Management Committee, information management practice expert for Sparknow, the innovative change and knowledge management consultancy, and an External Examiner for the Masters degree in Knowledge Management at Robert Gordon University.
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