Oct

7

Connecting Knowledge, Learning, & Innovation to improve business performance

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One of my favourite sessions was on “Connecting Knowledge, Learning, & Innovation to improve business performance” presented by Tracy Conn and Janine Valvoda. Tracy is the Assistant Vice President and Janine is the Chief Culture Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. 

A lot like our organization, their organization is conservative, has a strong knowledge base and is expecting retirements. Read more

Oct

6

Chose your KM birthday party

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I’ve been sitting on this one for quite some time now and, before the spark dies out completely, I want to draw your attention to Dave Snowden’s closing keynote speech at KMW08.

I invite everyone to download a podcast of Snowden’s speech and try giving it a listen starting about 22 minutes and 20 seconds into the recording. Its at this point in his presentation that Snowden provides a fascinating analogy to describe chaotic, ordered, and complex adaptive systems. Read more