KM Cluster - Sept 26, 2003 - NYC - 21st Century KM
Website:
www.kmcluster.com/nyc/
Agenda:
www.kmcluster.com/nyc/NYC_Fall_2003.htm
It is generally accepted that the practice of knowledge management (KM) debuted sometime in the 20th Century. Of course, the leadership and management focus of the last hundred years was mostly concerned with expanding and controlling the physical and mechanical properties of economic production. Management practices involving people, process and technology to fundamentally advance the intellectual capacity of people and effectiveness of knowledge-intensive organizations became prevalent only in the second half of the century.
The 20th Century framework of business thinking was derived from reductionism, mechanics, hierarchy and linear physical models. These models produced the most spectacular economic growth in the history of civilization. However, in rapidly expanding knowledge-based economies, these rigid, deductive models are not meeting the needs of business leaders or stakeholders. Rather, it has been discovered that entirely new, holistic, social and biological structures offer far better models of how the knowledge-based world actually works. These improved, inductive models elaborate how economic growth is sustained and improved in knowledge-intensive societies.
Unfortunately, as is always the case, un-learning the past is extraordinarily difficult. This is particularly true for established organizations striving to transform into knowledge-based organizations. Open-loop archetypes, technology preponderance, tangible focus, and pedantic training systems, for example, are just some of the 21st Century knowledge-based enterprise artifacts that trace their pathologic origins from 20th Century models. Below are further examples.
Through deliberate and focused effort, organizations have begun to adopt a 21st Century focus in leading their knowledge-intensive environments. The KM ClusterŪ
NYC will closely examine this spectacular economic and behavioural transformation.
By popular demand of the local Metropolitan Area KM Cluster community, an outstanding line-up of business thought leaders, executives, practitioners and experts has been assembled in a day-long format. The motive is to colonize the theme of 21st Century KM. The objective is to derive the critical behaviors, models, frameworks and Next Practices essential to this knowledge-based transformation and to sharply improve the value creating capacity of all knowledge-intensive environments.
Website:
www.kmcluster.com/nyc/
Agenda:
www.kmcluster.com/nyc/NYC_Fall_2003.htm
