Posts Tagged innovation
Connecting Knowledge, Learning, & Innovation to improve business performance
Posted by Catherine Shaw in KM World and Intranets 2008 on October 7th, 2008
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 the rest of this entry »
Chose your KM birthday party
Posted by Peter Zakrzewski in KM World and Intranets 2008 on October 6th, 2008
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 the rest of this entry »
Dr. Kao’s Innovation Nation
Posted by Peter Zakrzewski in KM World and Intranets 2008 on September 23rd, 2008
The first official day of KMW08 and talk about information overload. As I move from session to session, take notes, ask questions, and network with other participants, I can’t help but think, “Boy am I glad I have a blog to informally capture some of my thinking around what I’m hearing and seeing in order to share it with others.”
The day starts off with the opening keynote, Dr. John Kao. Author of Innovation Nation and guest of The Colbert Report, he’s been called the “Innovation Sherpa” who, I take it, will help us climb Innovation Everest. What is innovation? It’s not as simple a Creativity + Value. According to Dr. Kao, its more like Capabilities + Desired future. It’s a definition that I find interesting because its far more realistic and forces you to hold a mirror up and ask yourself, do I have the capabilities to reach my desired future? Anything that slaps you silly as a wake up call for change is fine by me.
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