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May 2023 Seminar : Does Knowledge Management need to change ?

10th June 2023/in Events 2023, Knowledge and information management, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary This ‘simple question’ was put to our audience in NetIKX’s first ‘live meeting’ in over 3 years. Our speaker looked back over 40 Information Management (IM) / Knowledge Management (KM) projects that he has managed in a 35 years plus career. He questioned whether KM processes and disciplines have helped or hindered the desired […]

September 2022 Seminar: Conversational Leadership Café: Is this our Gutenberg Moment!

30th September 2022/in Events 2022, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary The theme of this Knowledge Café concerns ‘the Gutenberg moment’ when the refinement of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1436 had a massive impact on the world. Now, with the invention of social media are we going through a second Gutenberg revolution? Speaker David Gurteen is a keynote speaker and conversational facilitator. He […]

July 2022 Seminar: Sparks into Light: Complexity and the Development Sector

29th July 2022/in Events 2022, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary Despite our best efforts at union, we live in a world of division. A world where competing political rhetoric causes anger and conflict ; where ideological differences lead to privilege, poverty, and discriminative stereotypes, and where mass media is powered by sensationalism and severance to sell. A world of power, discrimination, and conflict. But […]

May 2022 Seminar: MS Teams – The Case for Information Architecture and Governance

16th June 2022/in Content management, Corporate knowledge and information management, Events 2022, Knowledge and information management, Organisation and modelling:information architecture, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary This meeting was about MS Teams and, in essence, MS Teams are about communication (chat, audio/video conferencing, telephony) and collaboration (content sharing, storage, task management etc.). Teams is just one part of Office 365 which is a whole set of cloud business applications. However, before deploying Teams you will need an Information Management Strategy, […]

January 2022 Seminar: Introduction to Radical Knowledge Management

28th January 2022/in Corporate knowledge and information management, Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2022, K and IM: training and education, Organisational K and IM: knowledge harvesting, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary : With the ongoing development of technology and its impact on every workplace in industry and commerce we must seek to radicalise the effectiveness of Knowledge Management by learning lessons from the creative essence of art and artists. In this way we can increase productivity and liberate insightful improvements to industrial and commercial processes […]

November 2021 Seminar: Writing for the Web: Perspectives and Practical Advice.

30th November 2021/in Content management: creation, Events 2021/by Rob Rosset

Summary This meeting was an unusual choice for NetIKX, but it proved extremely wide ranging and informative. We considered how writing for the web is different from other content? What are the processes and principles guiding web content and are there any hard-and-fast rules to stick to when crafting texts for the Web? These are […]

July 2021 Seminar : Ethical Artificial Intelligence

28th July 2021/in Events 2021, Knowledge and information organisation and modelling, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Organisation and modelling: ontology, Organisation and modelling: taxonomy, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary What is ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI) ? In essence, we can identify three concerns/issues : “the moral behaviour of humans as they design, make, use and treat artificially intelligent systems.” “A concern with the behaviour of machines, in machine ethics” – for example, computational ethics. ” “The issue of a possible singularity […]

May 2021 Seminar : The status of KM in 2020, and trends for the future

28th June 2021/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2021, Previous Events/by Alison

Summary In early 2020, Knoco undertook a third global “state of the art” survey of Knowledge Management. The results gave a snapshot of the state of pre-covid KM, and comparison with previous surveys allows trends to be identified. Nick Milton, the director of Knoco Ltd has a fascinating insight into the survey results. He pinpointed […]

March 2021 Seminar: Working during the Covid-19 pandemic: sharing insights and experiences

22nd March 2021/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2021, K and IM: professional development, Knowledge and information management, Managing information and knowledge, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary This meeting consisted of eight speakers talking for ten minutes each about different aspects of their experience of working during this time, followed by the usual syndicate sessions, where experiences were shared in more detail, so that we can manage better as we move forward into a still uncertain future. Speakers The eight speakers […]

January 2021 Seminar: Managing Knowledge in Project Environments

22nd January 2021/in Corporate knowledge and information management, Events 2021, Organisational K and IM: project management, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

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 […]

November 2020 Seminar: The framework and ISO standards for Collaboration, KM and Innovation and how these might be integrated into your organisation

26th November 2020/in Events 2020, Knowledge and information organisation and modelling, Previous Events, Protecting information and knowledge, Uncategorised/by Rob Rosset

Summary This seminar, affectionately know as the Two Ronnie’s show, aimed to introduce the Five dimensions Framework of Collaboration, Knowledge and Innovation. They gave an overview of the collaboration, knowledge management and innovation published standards ISO44001, ISO 30401, ISO 56002. This was of great interest to the gathered crowd by establishing the relationships there. They […]

October 2020 Seminar: From Hawley to the Edge of Intelligence : the continuing evolution of Knowledge and Information Management to adapt to the new normal

23rd October 2020/in Events 2020, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary This seminar was all about the ‘Financial Times’ survey entitled ‘The edge of intelligence’ published in early March 2020. Stephen Phillips is a member of CILIP, the Library and Information Association, which worked with the ‘Financial Times’ to commission a survey of its readers. The purpose of this was to build a better understanding […]

September 2020 Seminar: TRIZ and how it can be applied to Knowledge and Information Management

30th September 2020/in Developing and exploiting information and knowledge, Events 2020, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary This meeting introduced the little-known methodology with Russian origins, called TRIZ. Patterns that were uncovered while delving deep into the patents database during work in Russia revealed around 100 concepts, principles, and strategies that they believe will help to solve any problem. Ron has extensive experience using TRIZ in a huge range of different […]

July 2020 Seminar: Time critical user centred library web design

23rd July 2020/in Corporate knowledge and information management, Events 2020, Organisational K and IM: library and archive management, Previous Events/by Rob Rosset

Summary Antony Groves, from the University of Sussex gave a lively account of how his team have made ten changes to the library website since lockdown. He talked about benchmarking, user surveys and feedback and plenty of iterations to get things right. They have had two aims: to make the site accessible to meet Government […]

May 2020 Seminar: How do we thrive in a hyper-connected, complex world?

21st May 2020/in Events 2020, K and I sharing: networking, K and IM: professional development, Knowledge and information management, Knowledge and information sharing, Previous Events/by Alison

Summary This meeting was a regular Knowledge Café that David Gurteen held especially for NetIKX members. We heard David set out the reasons he felt the world had changed beyond all recognition since the second world war. He listed the familiar story of the internet, transport advances, global finances and social media but also more […]