What we’re about
The Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (KMLF) is a knowledge, education and networking forum, run by Volunteer KM practitioners for KM practitioners.
Meetings are usually held on the 4th Wednesday of each month in the central business district in Melbourne, Australia. During COVID restrictions, Zoom video events are being hosted online. Membership is free, and attendance at meetings usually requires a small donation to cover drinks and nibbles.
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At KMLF meetings, members can participate in addressing and discussing issues regarding knowledge management and related topics. The aim of this participation is to set the foundation for a casual network of interested practitioners and scholars to discuss knowledge management and its impact on both business and government organisations.
The regular attendance at forum meetings is between 20-40 people. These represent executives and knowledge management practitioners from government and a range of corporations and SMEs. Academia, consultancies and vendors are also represented. Industries represented include legal, defence, manufacturing, C&IT and banking & finance. Our committee includes senior consultants, managers and executives from government and commercial enterprises and KM practitioners.
Meetings usually start at around 6 pm. The formal session usually wraps up by 7:30 pm, with networking and refreshments afterwards. After that, anyone interested can then adjourn for further discussions over dinner at a restaurant nearby.
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The Organising Team
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Making the invisible visible; a fun and fast knowledge mapping exerciseMinterEllison, Melbourne, VI
Agenda:
Description:
Knowledge is the most important production factor of (almost) every organization. Knowledge can be both explicit and tacit. Most knowledge in organizations is tacit knowledge. This knowledge is available in the people in the organizations. People in organizations navigate this tacit knowledge from their personal networks. In large organizations it takes a lot of time to build such a network and it’s inherently flawed because you can never know everyone.
That’s why we have developed an approach to map the collective informal knowledge network. In this meeting, I will present our knowledge mapping vision and we will collectively build (your) knowledge network during the workshop phase.PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AND FILL OUT THIS FORM SO YOU CAN BE ISSUED A GURUSCAN LOGON BEFOREHAND. This will be a hybrid event so you can logon from home as well and join in the hands-on workshop.
Outcomes:
Knowledge Network Theory: Tacit vs Explicit knowledge
Dunbar Number of meaningful relationships
Power of informal leadership in organizations
Workshop (experience)
o Building a collective knowledge guide
o Building a collective knowledge networkOur Speaker:
Bart Verheijen is the co-founder and CEO of GuruScan, a fully integrated
software solution which covers basic knowledge mapping and retrieval, team knowledge booster and network visualization.
He lectures on knowledge management and organizational network analysis at multiple universities (Netherlands, Italy and US). He is also an experienced international speaker on Knowledge, HR, networks and
innovation for conferences like Henley Forum and companies like Philips and Telefonica.
Bart works from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) where he lives with his wife and two kids. To relax he likes to do long endurance bike rides and races, amongst others with Randonneurs Netherlands.Schedule:
6:00 - 6:15 networking over drinks and nibbles
6:15 - 7:45 exploration of the topic
7:45 - 8:00 wrap up and informal conversationsGeneral timeline:
- - Introduction (who am I / what are we going to do) 5 minutes
- - instruction (what are you going to do precisely) 10 minutes
- - getting everyone ready! (5 minutes)
- - Workshop round 1 - Knowledge Brainstorm (10 minutes)
- - Workshop round 2 - Expert connections (20 minutes)
- - Workshop round 3 - Knowledge Levels (5 minutes)
- - Quick results Knowledge Guide / Knowledge Network (10 minutes)
- - Discussion / Q&A etc (remainder of the time)
