All in event report
The second day of the TOC ICO conference was another full day "upgrade workshop" with Eli Goldratt. He covered a Strategy & Tactics Tree for developing a mutually-beneficial collaboration between a manufacturer and a distributor. There were some other TOC tidbits throughout the day.
At the TOC ICO conference, Eli Goldratt spent the entire first day describing the Reliable Rapid Response strategy and tactic tree. Here are some responses to the day's discussion.
At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.
Day 2 of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and it closed out with more energy than yesterday. There were three sessions today: Is KM morphing into Practice Support, KM and Professional Development, and a brainstorming session on Making KM client-facing.
The first day of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and I found myself fairly comfortable, even though I'm not a lawyer. The KM topics discussed today looked at deeper integration of KM (and information management) into the firm; life cycle management of information central to the business of the firm; the cultural concerns with implementing KM-like changes; and what KM can do as the firm looks outside (the panel on which I participated).
I attended the Web2.0 and Communities distributed conference from CPSquare during the past four weeks. It was very instructive to me, as a person fairly well versed in the technology end of the spectrum. There are some lessons about online conferences to be learned as well.
I've been "attending" the CPSquare Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice online conference for the last week or so, and it has resulted in a number of interesting conversations. It's also inspired some personal realization as well.
Glenn Fannick of Factiva was the featured speaker at the KM Chicago meeting this past Tuesday with a topic of "Using Text mining and Visualization to Make Sense of Content Chaos." He covered the motivation behind advanced text mining, as well as some of the new technologies.
Jim Spillane gave a talk on "School Reform American Style: The (Missed) Management of Instruction," which focused on K-12 education and the design of the organization that provides education. I heard some interesting things about organizational design that extends beyond schoolrooms.
I attended WIRED Magazine's NextFest 2005 yesterday at Chicago's Navy Pier. It was an interesting event with many displays of the (near) future of technology.