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Apr 2008
 Knowledge
Stickiness Evening Talk on 29th Apr 08
We're pleased to
announce two very distinguished speakers at our next evening talk,
Professor Gabriel Szulanski on "Knowledge Stickiness" -
factors that prevent effective knowledge transfer - and Professor Eric
Tsui on the selection of IT tools to support knowledge sharing and
collaboration. The talk will be held at the Civil Service College, North Buona Vista Road
British Council, Napier Road,
starting 6.30pm on Tuesday April 29th. This event is free for members
and non-members will be asked for a $30 contribution towards
refreshments and venue costs. You'll find more details at http://www.ikms.org/docs/Evening_Talk_April_2008.pdf
- to register contact Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com
KM
Excellence Award Deadline – End Apr 08.
The deadline for
submissions for the iKMS KM Excellence Awards is the end of April 2008.
We encourage all Singapore-based operations with established KM efforts
to consider submitting a nomination for an award. We have a very
distinguished international evaluation panel who will give valuable
feedback to all submissions. Details of the awards process and
submission form can be downloaded from http://www.ikms.org/docs/KM%20Excellence%20Awards%202008%20Full%20Briefing%20Pack.doc
If you have any
questions about the process please contact Patrick Lambe at plambe@straitsknowledge.com
Networking
Evening
We are planning a
series of informal networking gatherings for our members and friends
over drinks and light food. The first of these will take place on
Friday 4 April from 7pm to 9pm, at BarCelona, 11 Unity Street, #01-30/31, Robertson
Walk. Tel 62353456.
iKMS is
supporting this event, but we will ask for contributions towards the
drinks and food - $10 for members and $20 for non-members. After 9pm
all items will be on your individual accounts. There will be
finger food, wine, beer, and soft drinks.
The informal
gathering is a no agenda meeting to help members socialise and get to
know each other's KM backgrounds and challenges. So for this first
session, we suggest a very broad topic such as "What is
knowledge Management? How much you know about KM? Do you need
KM?" If you have a burning issue you'd like to share, bring
that as well! Let's put knowledge management into practice and get some
of the networking benefits of belonging to a professional society. So
we have an indication of numbers to expect, please drop an email to
Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com
if you plan to come. Bring a colleague!
Mar 2008
Free
Conference Passes for KM Events in Singapore
Hong Kong and Australia
iKMS is
supporting a number of upcoming KM events in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Australia.
In return for our support, we've been offered discounts and a free
conference pass for each. We plan to hold a lucky draw for the free
passes on Thursday 20th March. Any fully paid up iKMS member who
intends to attend the event can submit an application for the lucky draw.
Please note the special conditions for each conference. Entries must
reach iKMS President Patrick Lambe by 12 noon on Thursday 20th March,
at plambe@straitsknowledge.com.
MARCH 27 - HONG KONG
"KM
2.0" organised by the Hong Kong KM Society and the KM Research
Centre of Hong Kong, to be held 27 March at the Excelsior Hotel Hong
Kong has a stellar line up of speakers including Dave Snowden, Leif
Edvinsson, Robert Neely, Kim Sbarcea and Jack Chong, with some good
workshops on the following day. More details available at http://kmrc.ise.polyu.edu.hk/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PUB.1.9
Discount: iKMS
members will qualify for the special HKKMS member rate.
MAY 7-8 - SINGAPORE
"Government
Information Forum" from Alphabet Media aims to bring together
public sector information and knowledge professionals to look at the
latest trends in information management for government. They have a
great range of speakers from governments in Asia, New Zealand, the Middle East, USA,
including iKMS Past President Kan Siew Ning, and iKMS member Ng Kok
Chuan from DSTA. iKMS President Patrick Lambe will be chairing the
Forum. More details available from jovita.jones@alphabet-media.com.
The brochure for the event can be downloaded here http://www.ikms.org/docs/Government%20Information%20Forum%2008.pdf
Discount: iKMS members will qualify for a 15%
discount.
JULY 21-23 - MELBOURNE
"KM
Australia 2008" is appearing for the first time in Melbourne. Ark
Group have been working hard at understanding the needs of the KM
community and have planned a range of interactive events and practical case
studies as well as international keynotes, who include Gene
Smith, Jeff Kelly, Dan Connolly, Thomas N.
Friemel, Hideo Yamazaki. This is also usually a great networking
event for making contacts in the Australian KM community. For more
information visit http://www.kmaustralia.com/
Discount: iKMS
members qualify for a A$150 discount on the conference price.
To enter the
Lucky Draw:
1. Verify that
you are a current, paid up iKMS member
2. Send an email
to plambe@straitsknowledge.com
with Subject line: Conference Lucky Draw
3. State your
name, position, employing organisation
4. State which
conference(s) you are applying for and your intention to attend if you
win: Hong Kong, Singapore or Melbourne (you can only win a free
pass for one event)
5. Acknowledge
that you have read and accept the conditions of entry below.
CONDITIONS OF
ENTRY:
(a) You agree to
provide a short report on the event for iKMS after your return
(b) KM Australia
is restricting entries to employees of organisations that are not
vendors in the KM space
(c) If you are
already registered for the Government Information Forum, Singapore,
and you win a free pass, you will not get a refund, but you can
nominate a colleague to take the free pass
(d) Any travel
and accommodation expenses associated with attending the conference
will be borne by the winner, only the conference registration fee is
covered
(e) iKMS will
submit the winner's details to the conference organiser for
registration, which is at their discretion
Closing date:
Midday, Thursday 20th March!
Evening Event
on User-Driven Taxonomies
Join us on March 13th at
6.30pm for a session from two of the leading figures in US
taxonomy practice, Christine Connors and Martha Heyman, on the human and
business dimensions of taxonomy development and maintenance. How do we
ensure our taxonomies reflect the language of the users? How can we
help users tag content usefully, and what’s in it for them? What
sort of investment is required and how do we calculate ROI? This
session is sponsored by Dow Jones Synaptica. For more details download
the event
description. Register with Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com.
This event is free to members and $30 towards refreshments for non
members.
Feb 2008
AGM Report
iKMS held its seventh AGM
on 23 February with good attendance and good participation from
members. The slides from the AGM are available here, and the
photos are available here.
The minutes of the AGM
will be circulated to members as soon as they are confirmed.
Invitation to
iKMS's AGM for 2008
We invite our members and
friends to join us for our Annual General Meeting on Saturday 23rd
February at the Singapore Polytechnic Graduate Guildhouse, from 9am to
1215pm, at the Singapore Polytechnic Graduate Guild House 3rd level.Location
details at: http://www.spgg.org.sg/about.asp
We'll start with a
networking breakfast, a special invited talk on the links between KM
and Magic, and some networking activities.The formal AGM will follow
that, and we will be seeking input from you on workshop topics for
2008, the future of the Journal of Information and Knowledge
Management, and our web development project. We will also give you a
status report on the KM Competencies project. As always we welcome the
participation of non-members in our AGM, so if you want to invite
colleagues who are interested in what we do, you are welcome to do so
(as long as you let us know who's coming). There is no charge for
attending the AGM. I hope to see you there.
You can download the details, and please
RSVP with Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com
Jan 2008
New Year
Activities
A very Happy
New Year to our members and friends!
Our next Evening
Event will be a Knowledge Cafe with David Gurteen to be held from
6.30pm on Tuesday January 29th, on the topic of "How Can We
Influence the Knowledge Sharing Culture of an Organisation?". More
details and registration information in this
document.
We'd also like
to update you on the results of the "Investing in KM"
survey we conducted before our KM Singapore conference in November.
Many thanks to those of you who responded. The results of that survey
and the video presentation describing Singapore's performance compared
to the rest of the world are now available here.
The rest of the videos from the conference will be available soon and
we'll send you another update when they are ready.
It's almost
time for our Annual General Meeting where we review the
activities of the past year and look forward to plans for the next.
This year is a non-election AGM, and we are now putting together the
agenda for that event which promises a hint of magic and some good
networking activity. Please mark Saturday morning 23rd February in your
diaries!
Nov 2007
KM Singapore
2007
The materials
from our very successful KM Singapore conference are now available
at http://www.kmsingapore.com/materials.html
and the photographs are available at http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=KMSingapore2007
. If you have photos to add, please consider uploading to Flickr at www.flickr.com and
adding the tag kmsingapore2007 - this will ensure that all our photos
will turn up on the tag page linked above.
Our KM
Excellence Awards were launched by Ms Lim Soo Hoon at our conference,
and are now open for nominations. Please consider entering your
organisation for this award - more details available at http://www.ikms.org/awards.html
Sep 2007
Video podcast
of Web 2.0 evening talk now available
The video
podcast and accompanying slides for our September 6 evening talk with
Ross Dawson and Maish Nichani on "Web 2.0 and the Future of
KM" are now available via http://tinyurl.com/ywv8fa
Attend a KM
Competency Definition Workshop
iKMS is currently developing
a KM Competency Framework which can be used for personal development
planning by our members. As part of this process we'd like to invite
iKMS members and friends to join us for a half day KM Competency
Definition workshop on Sat 6 October at the Singapore Polytechnic
Graduate Guildhouse.
This event is free of charge and will start with a light breakfast. For
more details see the attached document.
We're still inviting
participation in our survey on how far organisations invest in KM
competency development - if you haven't completed it yet, it's a short
10 minute survey and is available at http://tinyurl.com/ytl44j
- we have good participation by colleagues in Australia and the USA so
far, so will have some comparative data to analyse if we get a good
Singapore response.
The competency framework and
the results of the survey will be reported at our annual
conference on 1st November - http://www.kmsingapore.com - register
today!
Podcast and slides for Developing and
Managing Taxonomies
The video podcast and
slide materials for the August 30 evening talk given by Joseph Busch of
Taxonomy Strategies and Dave Clarke of Dow Jones, are now available
at http://tinyurl.com/25xuh8
KM Survey to prepare to KM Singapore
At our conference on 1st
November (www.kmsingapore.com), iKMS President
Patrick Lambe will be giving a presentation on "Taking KM
Seriously in Singapore".
He will be looking at how Singapore
organisations fare in terms of recognising and supporting the
development of professional competencies in their KM staff. We'd like
to invite you to participate in this effort by responding to a short
survey at http://tinyurl.com/ytl44j
We are inviting
participation from KM practitioners anywhere, so that we can get a
sense of how Singapore
fares in relation to other countries. Please participate and pass this
link on to anyone you think might be interested. The survey is
anonymous, and we'll send another notice out with a link to the final
report when it's complete.
Podcast and slides of Graham Durant-Law's
Business Network Analysis talk
The video podcast and
slide of Graham Durant-Law's presentation on 26 July 2007 on "How
to Do Business Network Analysis" are now available. The podcast is
available at this URL: http://plambe.blip.tv/file/349455/ and Graham's
slides are available at http://www.durantlaw.info/presentations_papers/ICKM2007.pdf
. Thanks to Edgar Tan of Straits Knowledge for preparing this podcast.
Get value from your iKMS Membership: Attend
both KM Singapore
and KM Asia
KM Conference season is
almost here! This year iKMS is collaborating with Ark Group's KM Asia to give you a
more rounded conference experience : we've done this by shaping our two
events to complement each other, and sharing significant
discounts.
At KM Asia we are helping
to raise the profile of Singapore
based knowledge management practice by sponsoring three sessions at the
event (a case study from Singapore Sports Council, a speed debate on
how culture affects knowledge sharing, and a taxonomy workshop). We
have also negotiated significant discounts for iKMS members who are
attending KM Asia and the Taxonomy workshop led by Patrick Lambe.
Our
own conference KM Singapore
immediately follows KM Asia, will be held on 1st November 2007 and will
focus primarily on KM implementation and practice in Singapore, with some
news of KM practice from sister associations in the region. Our
programme will be released shortly. You will find details of last
year's sell-out event here:
http://www.straitsknowledge.com/projects/detail/ikms_practitioners_conference_10_nov_2006/
To
get the special iKMS members discount for KM Asia and/or Patrick Lambe’s workshop
at KM Asia,
please contact Ark Group on aga@arkgroupasia.com
for further information. If you are not yet an iKMS member but want to
attend KM Singapore
and KM Asia,
your savings will more than pay for your membership subscription! More
on how to become a member can be found here: http://www.ikms.org/membership/index.html
iKMS
is also offering KM Asia attendees the opportunity to attend KM Singapore at the special iKMS member
rate.
KM
Singapore
will be taking place 1 November 2007 and more details about the event
and how to register can be found here: http://www.kmsingapore.com/register.html
KM
Asia will be held 29-31 October and further details can be found here: http://www.kmasia.com/
Web 2.0 and the Future of KM
Date: Thursday, Sep 6, 2007
Venue: Civil Service
College (North Buona Vista) (Click here)
Time: 6:30pm to 8:45pm
IKMS Benefit: Free for iKMS Members and $30 for non members
We’ve
heard about social tagging, picture and video sharing, social
networking sites, blogs, wikis and social bookmarking. Join us on Sept
6th to find out from a thought leader in this field, Ross
Dawson, how this new wave of technologies and tools, collectively termed
Web 2.0, is likely to affect knowledge management in the enterprise.
For more details and registration, see the attached document.
Aug 2007
Developing and Managing Taxonomies
Date: Thursday Aug 30, 2007
Venue: Civil Service
College (North Buona Vista) (Click here)
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
IKMS Benefit: Free for iKMS Members and $30 for non members
Our
next evening talk on 30 August will be on developing and managing
taxonomies, from two world experts in the field. Joseph Busch, from
Taxonomy Strategies, and former President of ASIST, will present some
case studies on taxonomy development, and Dave Clarke from Dow Jones
and Company will explain how taxonomy tools can be used to consistently
manage taxonomies, thesauri and metadata across the enterprise. For
more details and registration, see the attached document.
July 2007
Evening Talk on How to Do Social Network
Analysis
Date: Thursday Jul 26th, 2007
Venue: Civil Service
College (Click here)
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
IKMS Benefit: Free for iKMS Members and $30 for non members
Our
next Evening Talk on Thurs 26th July will feature Australian KM expert
Graham Durant-Law who will take us through the steps in implementing
and interpreting a social network analysis exercise in an
organisation. Graham will also lead a workshop discussion on
possible SNA implementations in organisations of talk participants.
Graham has offered to build his case presentation around a
demonstration SNA for iKMS members. You are encouraged to take part in
the online survey he has set up at http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=732619
to see the steps involved in how SNA is conducted. Graham has also offered
personalised feedback if you would like it, so do take the survey even
if you can't make the evening talk itself. Important note: the
survey closes on July 10, so you have only one week to participate -
take it today! For more details and registration see details here.
Video Podcasts from Forum on Professional
Development
The
video podcasts are now available
at this webpage from our Forum on Professional Education and
Professional Development on June 18th. There are four podcasts covering the
talks by Prof Eric Tsui, Prof Schubert Foo, and iKMS President Patrick
Lambe, and a fourth podcast summarising the forum discussions
afterwards.
June 2007
RFP for KM Competencies Research Project
iKMS invites interested
parties to submit proposals for a research project to develop a KM
competency framework suitable for KM professionals in the Singapore
environment. The research project will entail a literature review
of KM competency research and publications, an analysis of the typical
KM competency needs of KM practitioners in Singapore,
and production of an accessible, easy to use competency framework
document which can be used by KM practitioners to self-assess their
competency development needs. The project is pitched at Master's
dissertation level, and there will be an honorarium for the successful
researcher. For more details see the attached document. Proposals
should be submitted by Friday 6th July.
Call for authors for annual iKMS publication
This is a call to submit
articles for the annual iKMS book publication, “KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT: SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVES”
iKMS published the first
“Knowledge Management: Singapore Perspectives” in Nov 2006
as the first in a planned series of annual publications free to
members.
To be published in Oct
2007, this year's book, titled “Knowledge Management: Singapore
Perspectives 2007” edited by Kan Siew Ning, will follow the same
theme of looking at KM in a Singapore perspective - a collection of
about 10 to 12 KM articles, each of about 4000 to 5000 words.
This year, we welcome KM
articles with examples, stories and anecdotes of actual KM
implementation (i.e. practice-oriented KM instead of theoretical KM).
We also encourage holistic case studies of completed KM implementations
in organizations – from awareness to quick wins to strategy to
full implementation.
You can contribute as an
individual author or two persons can work together to co-write one
article. Those who contributed last year are most welcome to contribute
again. Each author who has his/her article accepted will receive 10
free copies of the book when it is published in Oct 2007. The deadlines
for submission are as follows:
1.
Submission of the proposed title and short synopsis (200 words): 1 July
07
2.
Editor informs you whether the proposed article is accepted: 15
July 07
3.
Submission of the final draft: 15 August 07
If you need
clarifications, please email Kan Siew Ning (kansn@yahoo.com).
Submission of synopsis and final drafts are also to the same email
address.
Follow up to iKMS Survey
Many thanks to all our
respondents (all 99 of you) who responded to our membership survey in
April/May. Please see the enclosed document for summary
of the results (all personal and organisational information has been
removed). The Exco is already working on this input for several new
initiatives which you will be hearing about over the coming weeks and
months.
Tan
Chuan Leong is the lucky winner of a $150 Kinokuniya book voucher in
our lucky draw.
RFP for Redesign of iKMS website and
membership management system
iKMS would like to invite
interested parties to submit proposals for the redesign of its website
and membership management system.
For full details of our needs and the selection process please see
document (Click here).
Submissions should be sent to khs08aces@yahoo.com by Monday 25th June.
Developing KM Professionals for a Knowledge
Society:
A dialogue and forum organized by iKMS, NTU, and Pearson
Education – June 18 2007
You are or seek to be a KM
professional: How do you get appropriate education and training? How do
you build your professional experience in the company of peers? How do
you get support for your continuing professional development? Join us
on June 18th at 6.30pm for a free, interactive session exploring
practical approaches to the education, development and support of KM
professionals.
- Professor Eric Tsui of the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University will describe how
the action research focus of the HKPolyU KM programmes stimulates
knowledge sharing and rapid learning among practitioners in Hong
Kong
- Professor Schubert
Foo of
the Nanyang
Technological University will describe
the necessary elements in the education of KM professionals for a
knowledge-intensive world
- Patrick Lambe, President of the
Information and Knowledge Management Society will describe the
role of a professional society in supporting and developing KM
professionals
See the linked document
for more details. Please register by email to Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com
May 2007
Materials from iKMS Sharing Session on 11
May 2007
We had a very productive
afternoon's discussion among iKMS members covering the four very
practical topics of Getting Management Buy-in, Drawing up KM Consulting
Tenders, Gathering Technology Requirements for KM, and Identifying KM
Pilot Projects. For the video podcasts on the debriefs on these topics,
and other event materials, visit this url: http://tinyurl.com/2jwc5m. Thanks
to all who took part, and especially to our topic facilitators!
Innovation
Dialogues: The Medici Game - supported by iKMS
A
workshop created for Practical Dialogue and Fun!
Date: Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
Venue: Singapore
Polytechnic Graduates' Guild
Time: 9:15 am to 4:00 pm
iKMS Benefit: As a special benefit of membership
to IKMS, we have negotiated a special members discount of $70 off the
normal workshop fee. Discounts are also available for teams of three or
more from any one corporation!
URL: www.knexco.com/innovationdialogue.shtml
Description:
Through partnership with the Celemi network and supported
by iKMS and the HK KM Society, kneXco offers a journey to explore
the most important conditions for enabling innovation in organisations.
The workshop participants will benefit from the knowledge shared from
two well known Innovation Experts: Dr. Wong Poh Kam, Director of
Entrepreneurship, NUS and Paul Hobcraft from HOCA and engage
in practical exploration of the issues surrounding crating a culture
for innovation in organizations by playing the Medici Game. The game
is based on the best selling book “The Medici Effect”
(described as one of "the best books on innovation" by
Business Week), and was developed in co-operation with its
author Frans Johansson.
kneXco invites you to join for a
day of practical innovation dialogue and take away
- A deeper understanding of the Medici Effect
and the enablers and inhibitors of innovation
in your organisation
- The opportunity to hear from one of Singapore’s
pioneering scholar of innovation, Dr. Wong Poh Kam,
Director of Entrepreneurship at NUS and practical approaches for
moving forward from renowned innovation specialist, Paul
Hobcraft
- Explore with your colleagues practical
methods for approaching and making innovation
happen in your organisation
Please feel free to forward information on both events to
all that might be interested and remember to RSVP/Register early at, www.knexco.com/innovationdialogue.shtml
How to Ignite
Knowledge Management in your organisation – An iKMS Event
Date: Friday May 11th, 2007 Time: 2:00pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Singapore
Polytechnic Graduates' Guild
IKMS
Benefit: Free for IKMS
Members and $15 for no | 
