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This event is BOTH Face-to-Face and online. (Details below)
Team-based holistic knowledge management (KM) focuses on teams rather than individuals. It is a new approach designed to empower field teams operating in complex environments to improve their impact. It increases field teams’ knowledge demand and use of organisation-wide KM services.
Team-based holistic KM was developed by Kathryn Harries for her PhD to empower technical field teams in humanitarian organisations and is expected to have wider value. In consultations, sector experts said: “this type of thing is the missing element in everything we’re doing”, “very, very useful” and “very practical” about the model. They also mentioned benefits include:
- Better responsiveness to community needs
- Better coordination with, and empowering of, other local actors
- Improved sector-wide response
- Improved operationalisation of the organisation’s vision and policies
- Improved team well-being
- Improved continuity when team members change
- Better ability to adapt
- Better knowledge retention to continually improve within and between emergency responses
The session will explain how team-based holistic KM was developed. Followed by a facilitated discussion on the approach and the potential value to other teams and the wider KM sector.
Participating in this event will enable you to:
- Consider KM from a field-team perspective.
- Learn new ways to support field teams to improve their impact and knowledge demand.
Our speaker
Kathryn Harries has a field team background and considers KM from this perspective. When working in semi-autonomous field teams, on sewage treatment plants and in humanitarian and development technical teams, she realised that traditional KM approaches did not meet their needs and started experimenting with new approaches that proved successful. Her work as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster Coordinator Somalia [masked]), coordinating over 170 WASH organisations in response to famine, insecurity and malnutrition, was recognised as global good practice for knowledge management and information sharing. She was later recruited as Knowledge and Learning Manager for the DFAT-funded Civil Society WASH Fund [masked]). Her PhD was designed to scale up this earlier work and develop a new approach, supported by a practical adaptable guide, for use by technical field teams in humanitarian organisations to improve their preparedness and response to large scale disasters in developing countries.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-harries/
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 networking over drinks and nibbles
6:30 - 7:45 exploration of the topic
7:45 - 8:00 wrap up and informal conversations
8:00 Dinner for interested parties
Our events are hybrid and we will share an online teams invite to participants ahead of this event to join online.
- Stuart F.
- Kathryn
- Derek K.
- 4 attendees
Details to be provided closer to the event. Please check here - including confirmed location - before attending.
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Agenda Template:
Description:
(One paragraph describing the session topic with a bit of background.)
This session will be conducted as a facilitated conversation, where the speaker will start the conversation then will pose and answer questions to and from the audience.
- Relevance in specific projects?
- How did this in practice?
- How does this relate to KM? To culture change? To strategy?
- How have others survived their journeys?
Outcomes:
Participating in this event will enable you to:
- xxx
- xxx
Our Speaker:
Brief bio.
Contact details as preferred.
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 networking over drinks and nibbles
6:30 - 7:45 exploration of the topic
7:45 - 8:00 wrap up and informal conversations
8:00 Dinner for interested parties
- Stuart F.
- 1 attendee
Details to be provided closer to the event. Please check here - including confirmed location - before attending.
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Agenda Template:
Description:
(One paragraph describing the session topic with a bit of background.)
This session will be conducted as a facilitated conversation, where the speaker will start the conversation then will pose and answer questions to and from the audience.
- Relevance in specific projects?
- How did this in practice?
- How does this relate to KM? To culture change? To strategy?
- How have others survived their journeys?
Outcomes:
Participating in this event will enable you to:
- xxx
- xxx
Our Speaker:
Brief bio.
Contact details as preferred.
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 networking over drinks and nibbles
6:30 - 7:45 exploration of the topic
7:45 - 8:00 wrap up and informal conversations
8:00 Dinner for interested parties
- Stuart F.
- 1 attendee
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Patrick Lambe's new book with MIT Press "Principles of Knowledge Auditing" aims to help knowledge managers bring consistency and rigour to the way they identify and evaluate knowledge management needs. This session takes the form of a dialogue between Patrick Lambe, Matt Moore, and you (the participants) on how to pragmatically establish the value of knowledge within an organization for senior stakeholders. We will explore the following questions (and more):
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What does it mean to call knowledge an asset, capital, or a resource?
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Why is the ownership of knowledge such a treacherous concept in KM?
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How do we measure the value of knowledge?
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How do these issues drive how we manage knowledge?
This session will be conducted as a facilitated conversation, where the speaker will start the conversation then will pose and answer questions to and from the audience.
- Relevance in specific projects?
- How did this in practice?
- How does this relate to KM? To culture change? To strategy?
- How have others survived their journeys?
Our Speakers:
Patrick Lambe is the author of the widely-praised book Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness (Chandos: 2007) and co-author with Nick Milton of The Knowledge Managers Handbook: a step by step guide to implementing KM in your organization 2nd edn (Kogan Page: 2019), which was awarded the 2019 CILIP K&IM Information Resources Prize in the Print Category.
Based in Ireland and Singapore, he is the founder of knowledge management research and consulting firm Straits Knowledge, founding President of the International Society for Knowledge Organization Singapore Chapter, Visiting Professor at Bangkok University, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Knowledge Management. Patrick has worked on knowledge management and taxonomy projects in government, commercial, and non profit organisations around the world.
Patrick was educated at Oxford, did his Master's in Librarianship and Information Studies at the University of London, and has worked for the past four decades in librarianship, learning and development, elearning, and knowledge management. He is a widely respected keynote speaker and writer on knowledge and information management issues, and his blog is at www.greenchameleon.com. His new book Principles of Knowledge Auditing: Foundations for KM Implementation will be published by MIT Press in May 2023.
Matt Moore has worked in the knowledge management domain for over 20 years with organizations such as IBM, PwC, Oracle, Channel 7, and ASIC. He is the former Chair of the New South Wales Knowledge Management Forum and taught on the Masters in Knowledge Management at University of Technology Sydney.
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 networking over drinks and nibbles
6:30 - 7:45 exploration of the topic
7:45 - 8:00 wrap up and informal conversations
8:00 Dinner for interested parties
- Stuart F.
- Christoph H.
- 2 attendees
Past events (157)
- Sharon B.
- Felicity
- Gail B.
- 16 attendees
