For a few days last week, I swapped Wiltshire’s winding
lanes for San Francisco’s frantic streets.
I’d been invited to speak at KA Connect – a Knowledge Management (KM)
conference for the AEC industry (i.e. Architecture, Engineering and
Construction). More about my involvement
in a future blog post….
The conference was attended by a little over 220 people,
drawn from the 3 sectors, and focused on 2 key themes:
·
Critical knowledge – i.e. how to define, capture
and manage it;
·
KM strategy – i.e. how to use KM to support a
firm’s commercial strategy.
In the parlance of the moment, I took a number of ‘take-aways’
from the event, some of which I’ll explore in future posts but, to summarise
here:
·
After so many years of battling the yet-to-be-convinced,
getting together with other people that ‘get it’ is good for one’s KM mental health!
·
Twitter enables speakers’ insights to reach the
wider world within seconds which, for most people reading this blog, will
always be remarkable;
·
Larry Prusak remains the Godfather of KM, and deservedly
so;
·
As with military operations, so with life –
prior planning prevents piss-poor performance….
More to come….
For a conversation about how managing your knowledge can
help improve performance, please contactme direct, or via the Knoco website.
