Summary

This meeting was about Knowledge Management which is widely practised in project environments, but not always recognised as such. What is recognised as knowledge management is often information management – and tends to be treated a series of unconnected activities.

Members joined us to find out where knowledge management has been hiding, and how to use knowledge management thinking to solve common project problems.

Speaker

Our speaker was Judy Payne. Judy is a management consultant – she is a Director of Hemdean Consulting – and an academic – BPP University, Associate Faculty, Business and Law Schools. She was formerly a director of the Henley KM Forum and preceded that by being Visiting Executive Fellow where she undertook research, supervision of MBA dissertation students and occasional teaching.

The focus of her work is on KM and organisational learning – how to get people to work together effectively and efficiently to get things done, to come up with new ideas, to make better decisions and generally make the very best use of what they know. In practice, she runs workshops and undertakes consultancy assignments. The former involves designing and facilitating the workshop itself, the latter involves several months work.

She is Chair of the BSI Knowledge Management Standards Committee. She is Co-Chair of Knowledge SIG – Association for Project Management. Her mission is to open up project management thinking to knowledge management. She has a 1st Class Honours Degree in Water Resources and Computer Science from Aston University. She has a PhD in Sustainable Urban Drainage, also from Aston University. She has an MBA from Henley Management College.

Time and Venue

This was a Zoom meeting held on Thursday 21st January 2021 at 2:30 pm.

Slides

No slides available

Tweets

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Blog

See our blog report: Managing Knowledge in Project Environments

Study Suggestions

None available at present