The conference season has begun in earnest. KM Singapore 2014 has recently concluded, but several more remain. If you're attending one of them, chances of us meeting are pretty high. If not, this bulletin will hopefully give you an idea of what we've been up to.
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Written by Edgar Tan
Senior management support is one of those factors that you need working for you when managing organisational knowledge. So when we meet prospective clients for the first time we try to assess the extent of senior management support that they are getting for their KM project, so as to gauge how sustainable their KM endeavour is likely to be.
To read the full article, click here.
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 Introducing Straits Knowledge Digital
Straits Knowledge Digital (SKD) is our newly minted sister company. SKD develops and sells software apps that support knowledge management. Their inaugural product is Aithin™, an app for mapping knowledge essential to carrying out core business activities.
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 Partnership with Synaptica™ Our sister company Straits Knowledge Digital has forged a partnership with Synaptica™, one of the leading providers of enterprise taxonomy management solutions in the world. To find out if Synaptica™ is the right tool for your taxonomy management needs, contact Edgar Tan. |
Introducing Ron Koh and Ari Isnan
We welcome onboard Ron and Ari. Ron keeps our books and runs our office while Ari brings our service and product offerings out to the world. See their profiles here.
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IIM Conference
27-28 October
Patrick will be delivering a keynote on the gap between knowledge and action, and leading a workshop on "Conducting Knowledge Audits" at the IIM Conference in Canberra on 27-28 October.
Edgar will also be showcasing Aithin™ and Synaptica™ so look out for us!
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KM World & Taxonomy Boot Camp
4-5 November
Patrick will be giving the opening keynote at this year's Taxonomy Bootcamp 4 November in Washington DC, on "From Cataloguers to Designers: A New Role for Taxonomists in Knowledge Graphs, Machine Classification, and Search Based Applications". He will also be leading a workshop on Knowledge Audits at KM World. This workshop provides a step-by-step technique for conducting a knowledge audits to assess KM needs and opportunities in any organisation. It helps you understand the different forms of organisational knowledge and their matching strategies, provides the keys to building and analysing activity-based knowledge maps, and gives you the confidence to develop recommendations for operational KM interventions based on knowledge maps.
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Effective Knowledge Auditing - everything you wanted to know but were unable to ask!
17 November
Patrick will be running a masterclass on conducting effective knowledge audits with Paul Corney in London next month. To find out more about this masterclass, visit this
Ark Group webpage.
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Knowledge Management Special Issue: Connecting Theory & Practice
Edited by Patrick Lambe
Over the past several months Patrick has been busy guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurship Innovation and Management (JEMI) on the connections between KM theory and practice. There are several first rate articles on KM as a complex space, KM application in the military, the data-information-knowledge hierarchy, KM frameworks in consulting practice and more!
Download a free copy of this issue here. |
Taxonomy Development Process Translated
We recently translated our Taxonomy Development Process poster into simplified Chinese. If you fancy a copy, you can download it here. In case you missed the original English version, you can download it at this
blog entry
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Leading from the Jet Stream
This issue's featured article, Sustainable KM, talks about the perils of relying solely on the most senior person in your organisation for support of your KM initiatives. About a decade ago, Patrick wrote a thoughtful piece about the downside of having leaders who are not groomed organically but are parachuted into the top seat from elsewhere. While the article was written in 2003 this phenomenon has not changed since. The tenures of chief executives are still very short, and their influence on corporate initiatives like knowledge management continues to take on a short term character.
Read Patrick's original article here.
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