Upcoming iKMS Events!
September 29 2004 - Evening with iKMS: KM in the Public Sector with Luke Naismith of the Australian public service and Wesley Wong of Singapore's Public Service Division more
October 7-9 2004 - Gary Klein Masterclass - Capturing Tacit Knowledge with Cognitive Task Analysis more
November 2004 - iKMS Seminar Series co-organized with the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society on "Corporate Portals: Harnessing Technology to KM"

13-15 December 2004
International Conference on Knowledge Management

The Information and Knowledge Management Society is holding a major international KM conference to be held in Singapore in December 2004, on "People, Knowledge and Technology: What have we learnt so far?". Keynote speakers include David Snowden, Max Boisot, David Weinberger, Rob Cross and Josef Hofer-Alfeis.The conference is intended to bring together leading researchers, practitioners and developers, and will be the first in a migrating series. The 2005 conference will be held in the US, and we plan to hold the third conference at a location in Europe. We will be issuing the first call for papers for 2004 very shortly. Papers will be published by World Scientific in a set of Proceedings... find out more!

 

 

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Resources

From Document Management to Knowledge Management: Issues and Trends in Singapore's KM Journey
Download the slides from Patrick Lambe's talk on KM developments in Singapore at FujiXerox's Docuworld event on 25 August 2004 (1.5MB). download
Invisible Knowledge: Mapping Informal Knowledge Flows with Social Network Analysis
Download the slides from Patrick Lambe's evening with iKMS talk on 7 July 2004 - all about applying social network analysis in KM (1.7MB) download
CoP Workshop Groupwork
Download the groupwork captured from our interactive workshop with Kim Sbarcea on "Communities of Practice in Practice" on 23 April 2004. download
Survey Research
In late 2003 a group of students from NTU business school asked for iKMS' participation in a survey on Singaporean perceptions of the competencies required of a knowledge manager. This is their research report with its findings - Singaporeans generally have a good understanding of the role and competencies of knowledge managers. But one interesting insight leaps out: people who change jobs frequently are more likely to be supporting of KM and knowledge sharing, while long stay employees are less so! download
Case Study - DSTA

Kan Siew Ning of DSTA shared his organization's KM journey with members at the 23 February "Evening with iKMS" evening talk.

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Knowledge Communities in Japan - A Case Study

In this fascinating paper on Knowledge Communities in Japan originally written for Tech Monitor, Dr Hideo Yamazaki, Director of the Knowledge Management Society of Japan, shares his research into the uniquely Japanese approach to knowledge communities. It includes three interesting case studies, and shows clearly how technology and Asian culture continue to evolve and interact in new ways, in what Dr Yamazaki calls "post-Nonaka" Japanese KM.

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Knowledge Sharing

Lee Chu Keong of NTU shared his research project on the conditions
underlying successful voluntary informal knowledge sharing with iKMS members on 17 January 2004. Here are his slides for download in pdf format.

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Social networks for knowledge management

Prabhakar Raghavan, CTO of Verity Inc, and professor at Stanford University, took us on a fascinating tour of the importance of social networks in knowledge management, on 11 November 2003. Here are his slides for download in pdf format.

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A Framework for Implementing Knowledge Management Projects

Alton Chua, newly appointed Lecturer at NTU, introduced us to a lucid framework for approaching a KM project, at an iKMS evening talk on 22 August 2003, Download his slides in pdf format here.

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How to Implement KM in your Company

"How to Implement KM in your Company" is a free, open source guide to KM implementation, written by the pioneer batch of Knowledge Management MSc students at Nanyang Technological University. It is made available for download free of charge to iKMS members, in the hope that you will give feedback on its contents for future improvements. Comments, feedback and suggestions can be sent to ftliu@singnet.com.sg

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Websites

Brint Knowledge Management Portal
The Premier Knowledge Management Portal and Global Virtual Community of Practice for the New World of Business recommended by Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Publishing, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, and Chief Executive. KMWorld, the leading magazine on Knowledge Management, says: "Brint is perhaps the best KM resource site out there. One of the most outstanding knowledge management and technology analysis resource pages... a must see and bookmark site!."

Knowledge Management World
KM World is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market.

Knowledge Management Resource Centre
The Knowledge Management Resource Centre provides links, articles, publications, books, etc. All links are labelled on a scale of from Basic (B) to Intermediate (I) to Expert (E) as well as a 5-star scale.

KM Tool
A resource for planning knowledge management (KM) projects (i.e projects that promote sharing and use of knowedge such as ideas, expertise, best practices).

Knowledge Management Server
This Knowledge Management Home Page is dedicated to the investigation and exploration of the topic of Knowledge Management as it relates to the business world of today. This Knowledge Management Home Page was developed within the University of Texas at Austin by students participating in the Masters in Business Information Management Concentration.

Your Knowledge @ Work
Your Knowledge @ Work website is the web resource portal of the Knowledge Management Institute in the Faculty of Information Studies of the University of Toronto. The Web site emulate the principles and concepts of knowledge management, and create a resource which is of value to the growing number of knowledge management communities of practice and interest.

ICASIT's Knowledge Management Central
This is the Knowledge Management "collaboratory" International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT) in the George Mason University. It was designed to facilitate searching through the ever-growing KM literature in a more focused way.

KMetaSite
KMetaSite is a non-for-profit initiative of the Center for Knowledge Systems, an R&D unit of the Monterrey Institute of Technology whit the financial and technical support of the Information Technology Department of ITESM, Monterrey Campus. way.

Gurteen Knowledge
The Gurteen Knowledge-Website is a KM resource site run by David Gurteen, an independent KM consultant based in the UK. In addition to the traditional KM topic areas, the site includes Learning, Thinking, Creativity, Personal Mastery, and Personal Knowledge Management. You may also sign-up to the Gurteen Knowledge-Letter - a free monthly e-mail based newsletter.

 

Is there a useful KM site we should list?

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Events Supported by iKMS
13-14 October 2004
Business Intelligence Asia 2004 Conference KL
iKMS is supporting this two day conference in Kuala Lumpur organised by AC-NERGY. iKMS members get a 20% discount off the fee for the two day conference.
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18-19 November 2004
6th Asia Pacific KM Conference Hong Kong

This conference is supported by iKMS and organised by our sister society HKKMS. It is the longest established KM conference in Asia Pacific, and has built an excellent reputation for its focus on grounded, practitioner issues. This year's theme is "Intangible Assets: the wealth of knowledge-based economies".
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24-25 November 2004
Enterprise Content Management Conference KL
iKMS is supporting this two day conference organised by Marcus Evans in Kuala Lumpur, November 24-25. iKMS members get 10% off the conference fee of USD1395.
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7-8 December 2004
KM in Asia Pacific Conference 2004 Taiwan

The first international conference of KMAP is being initiated by the National Taiwan University to provide a communication platform for issues of knowledge management relevant to the Asian Pacific area. To assure this conference will become a regular event, an Association of Asian Pacific Knowledge Management will be created.
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