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Aug 2008
 KM SINGAPORE UPDATES
Our KM Singapore conference is filling rapidly, please note you have only a few weeks to benefit from the early bird rates. Programme highlights include:
Opening address from Mr Chan Yeng Kit, PS of MICA Inaugural KM Excellence Awards ceremony International keynote address from Graham Higgins, global Manager of Organisational Development and Learning at Cathay Pacific Case studies from PETRONAS, NLB, IE Singapore, Yokogawa Engineering, World Wildlife Fund for Malaysia, National Institute of Education, and more!
Register today at www.kmsingapore.com
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
We have a limited number of sponsorship packages available for KM Singapore, with first priority given to our corporate members. If you are interested, please drop a line to khs08aces@yahoo.com
VIDEO OF FISHBOWL SESSION ON BUILDING KM CAPABILITIES
The video podcast of our evening talk "fishbowl" discussion with Doreen Tan of Singapore Sports Council and Mohd Bismillah Abdul Aziz of the Health Promotion Board is now available at http://tinyurl.com/4zqbxj.
KM Singapore 2008 - 9-10 October
iKMS is delighted to announce that Mr Chan Yeng Kit, Permanent Secretary of MICA will open our new and expanded KM Singapore conference this year with a speech on enabling a knowledge based workforce. The conference is shaping up with a great range of international and local speakers, practical sharing on implementation case studies, and in-depth panel discussion on KM implementation in different industries. Highlights include the inaugural KM Excellence Awards, the launch of iKMS' new KM Competencies Framework, our very successful case study cafe, the release of our annual book reviewing KM practice in Singapore, and much much more. Visit the conference website at http://www.kmsingapore.com to take advantage of the early bird prices, and if you are not already an iKMS member, please do sign up (via our membership page) and you could save up to $140 off the conference fees.
Next Evening Talk -
Workshop on
Enterprise
2.0
Our
next evening talk session will be with Dr Bonnie Cheuk of ERM
Consulting in the UK, who will share her company's experience in
building Web 2.0 technologies into the company's global intranet to
foster greater sharing and collaboration. The case has been profiled in
Inside Knowledge magazine, and won an international award. Bonnie (who
started her KM career in Singapore) will use a
workshop-based approach to help participants explore the potential for
these tools.
Date: Monday
18th August 2008
Time: 6.30-9.00pm
Venue: The
British Council Rooms 306-7, Napier
Road (car parking available at
Tanglin Mall no car parking at venue)
Admission: Free
for members, $30 for non-members
Registration:
to Kong Heng Sun at khs08aces@yahoo.com
Details: http://www.ikms.org/docs/iKMSERMAugust08.pdf
Jul 2008
Evening Talk on 22 Jul:
Value Networks & KM Adoption
Don't forget to
register for our next evening talk on 22nd July, with Laurie Lock Lee
and Patrick Lambe. Laurie will introduce the method of value network
analysis (VNA), in particular how it can be used to support stakeholder
management. Patrick will introduce the "Getting Management
Buy-in" archetypes produced in an international project last year
(iKMS had some input), and participants will do a workshop exercise to
use value network analysis as a way of identifying key stakeholders in
KM, and how VNA can be used to identify influencing strategies. More
details at http://www.ikms.org/docs/iKMSVNA0708.pdf
. Register with Kong Heng Sun
at khs08aces@yahoo.com
VIDEO AND MATERIALS FROM EVENING TALK ON
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
The videos and
slides from our April 29th evening talk, starring Professor Gabriel
Szulanski and Professor Eric Tsui are now available. To view and download
the talk by Professor Szulanksi, visit http://tinyurl.com/6zr7qe.
To view and download the materials from Professor Tsui visit http://tinyurl.com/3nzmze
Jun 2008
Evening Talk on 12 June:
Building Internal KM Capabilities
Please join us on 12 June at 6,30pm to
explore with some of Singapore's
very seasoned knowledge managers Doreen Tan of Singapore Sports Council
and Mohammed Bismillah of the Health Promotion Board, sharing from
their personal experience of how to build internal KM consulting and
delivery capabilities. The session will also demonstrate the
"Fishbowl" technique for knowledge sharing and expertise
transfer, facilitated by Mark Hamilton of the British Council. This
event is free for iKMS members, and $30 to cover the cost of the event
from non-members. For more information download the document at the
attached link,
and registration should be with Kong Heng Sun
at khs08aces@yahoo.com
May 2008
Taxonomy Evening Talk
Videos and Call for Book Chapters
1. TAXONOMY
EVENING TALK VIDEOS
The videos and
slides from our March evening talk on taxonomies are now available for
those who missed them or would like a refresher. Christine Connors of
Dow Jones describes her experience in building user-oriented taxonomies
at this link: http://tinyurl.com/4u6xbl
Marti Heyman of
Dow Jones talks about how to build an ROI case for a taxonomy project
at this link: http://tinyurl.com/4axclp
2. CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR iKMS ANNUAL VOLUME
This is a call to
submit articles for the third annual volume in our
series “Knowledge Management: Singapore Perspectives”,
edited by Kan Siew Ning.
To be published
in Oct 2008, this year's book, titled “Knowledge Management:
Singapore Perspectives 2008” will follow the same theme of
surveying KM developments in Singapore – a collection
of about 10 to 12 KM articles, each of about 4000 to 5000 words.
This year, we
continue our practice-oriented focus and welcome KM articles with case
examples, stories and anecdotes of actual KM
implementations. We also encourage holistic case studies of
completed KM implementations in organizations – from
awareness to quick wins to strategy to full
implementation. Other articles related to KM, innovation and
learning are also welcome.
You can
contribute as an individual author or as co-authors. 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 2008. The deadlines
for submission are as follows:
1.
Submission of the proposed title and short synopsis (200 words): 1
July 08
2.
Editor informs you whether the proposed article is accepted:
21 July 08
3.
Submission of the final draft: 9 August 08
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.
3. KM-RELATED JOB
IRAS is seeking
to recruit a Librarian for its Organisation Excellence
Branch. Duties will include:
i) Defining information needs, building up the resource
collection and sourcing for external information.
ii) Exploring new technologies to streamline information
management and enhance value-added services.
iii) Implementing programmes to promote learning &
sharing culture.
iv) Assisting users in information retrieval.
v) Managing the daily operations of the Resource Centre.
For more details and application, visit: http://askiras.iras.gov.sg/ESVPortal/other_info/career/orss/jobpostings.asp
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
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