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E-conference 2005 KM: [round 2] ‘Awareness for KM at management levels?’.

Dear Participants,

The topic for this week is ‘Awareness for KM at management levels?’.

Our first e-discussion revolved around the question what we mean by KM. We learned that personal and local circumstances determine what knowledge is valuable and needed to do our work. We all felt that KM is an important issue to leverage capacity. Also knowledge turned out to have a lifecycle because situations change for example due to people changing jobs and new information becoming available. To keep our knowledge up-to-date learning came into focus.

The topic of the second period (20-30 May 2005) of the KM e-conference will be: ‘How to create awareness for knowledge management at management levels?’ We reckon silver bullets for this topic do not exist but we hope we can share thoughts and experiences on how to get management levels enthusiastic on KM. Just to trigger your minds, here are some questions:

  • Do managers have to be ‘knowledge champions’ or look after lessons learned and knowledge sharing?
  • Can a KM workshop help or should KM be a regular topic in meetings? Is KM addressed in annual reports and is it linked to organisational goals?
  • How to get alignment between management priorities and KM opportunities and contributions? What would be a good KM pilot project for management to buy into?

Your answer: 'Awareness for KM at management levels ......'

If you are new to the discussion, please introduce yourself briefly so that we “know” each other. We hope that we may count on your participation, contribution and motivating involvement once more.

Kind regards, Jaap Pels

Updated - Thursday 01 September 2005

Summary e-conference on KM period 2, May 2005

All discussion participants to the second round of the e-conference on knowledge management more or less agreed that KM is also a manager's business. Participants researched and discussed how to get KM on the management's agenda.

20050605-Discussion-summary.pdf (67.0 kB)

All contributions E-conference KM round 2

Round 2 of the E-conference on knowledge management is closed. Although not that many contributions to the discussion were made, the quality was high. In the coming weeks IRC will summarize round 2 and reflect on further action. The attached file contains all contributions from this round.

20050602-E-conference-KM.doc (55.5 kB)



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