SIKM Leaders Community

SIKM Leaders Community

The SIKM Leaders Community, originally named the Systems Integration Knowledge Management Leaders Community, is a community of Knowledge Management leaders from firms around the world. It was created in 2005 by Stan Garfield for Systems Integration and Consulting firms, but soon expanded to include all Knowledge Management leaders. The goal is to share experiences and insights on implementing Knowledge Management programs.

Stan, who is still leading the community, was Community Evangelist at Deloitte Global Knowledge Services and Worldwide Knowledge Management Lead at Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computer Corp. He is now retired, acting as author, speaker and community leader in the field of Knowledge Management.

The Systems Integration KM Leaders Community offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

Chapters

  • SIKM Global Group (start: Aug 2005)
    • SIKM Community Champions
  • SIKM Boston Chapter (start: Jan 2009)
  • SIKM NYC Group (Dec 2015 – Dec 2016)
  • SIKM San Francisco Bay Area Group (start: Sep 2018)

Training

  • Would you like to have a KM MENTOR? Peer Mentoring Programme for KM practitioners (start: 2023; w. KM4Dev)
      Feb 2024: KM Peer Mentoring Pilot Debrief

Conferences

  • Midwest Knowledge Management (KM) Symposium*
    (Organizer: Midwest KM Community; Pioneer Knowledge Services)

Meetings

  • Monthly SIKM Leaders Community Calls
    List of Community Calls
    Usually on the third Tuesday of the month; Meeting platform; Member access to schedule w. links to past calls’ follow-ups (incl. slides, recordings, etc.; Registration required!); Since 2017 supported by Susan Ostreicher

  • Chapter meetings
    List of Meetings
  • SIKM Peer Assists, Knowledge Cafes, Fishbowls, etc.
  • Get-togethers @ KM events (mainly at KMWorld conference)
    • 13th SIKM Leaders Community Get-together at KMWorld, Nov 9, 2022
    • 12th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner/Meetup at KMWorld, Nov 16, 2020 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 11th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2019 (Orga: Susan Hanley, Arno Boersma, Neesham Spitzberg)
    • 10th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 7, 2018 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 9th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 7, 2017 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 8th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 16, 2016 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 7th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 3, 2015 (Orga: Arno Boersma and Neesham Spitzberg)
    • 6th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2014 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 5th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 6, 2013 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • (informal) APQC KM Conference SIKM Leaders Community Dinner, May 2, 2013
    • 4th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Oct 18, 2012 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • APQC KM Conference SIKM Leaders Community Dinner, Apr 26, 2012 (Orga.: Linda Hummel)
    • 3th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 2, 2011 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
      (joint event with the Knowledge Management Education Forum)
    • 2nd SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 17, 2010 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
    • 1st SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 17, 2009 (Orga: Susan Hanley)
  • Group Conversations
    Latest conversations

    • May 2, 2024
      Re: Quick Win KM use case
      Robert,I also would be interested in seeing what you've done and encountered. We are actively creating content collections for specific topics/scenarios and creating chats for them. Experience ha …
    • May 2, 2024
      Re: Knowledge Management and Monitoring & Evaluation: Proposed Collaboration Activities across the Program Cycle
      A reply was posted in KM4Dev: Re: Knowledge Management and Monitoring & Evaluation: Proposed Collaboration Activities across the Program Cycle Mirulla, Renata (OEDD)  Apr 24   #2720    Dear Hamish …
    • May 1, 2024
      Re: Ebsco Stacks? and other vendor Knowledge Portals/Centers products
      On 1/5/2024 10:40 pm, Stan Garfield via groups.io wrote: Sandra asked, "What is your opinion on leveraging external vendor products to host your internal knowledge portal site compared to custom …
    • May 1, 2024
      Re: Ebsco Stacks? and other vendor Knowledge Portals/Centers products
      All of our IT tools are hosted, but we did make the decision to use an intranet that integrates with SharePoint.  We keep all of our documents in SharePoint although they can be searched for and viewe …
    • May 1, 2024
      Re: Alt. term for 'KM'?
      Hi Rebecka, Thank you so much for looping me in. This is a fascinating discussion. The term I have been using is knowledge mobilization. I came across the term in academic social sciences and humaniti …
    • May 1, 2024
      Re: Ebsco Stacks? and other vendor Knowledge Portals/Centers products
      Hi Sandra,From my own experience, having both is a good option to consider as you can leverage external vendor product (the one that meets best your needs) and customize it internally so as to meet yo …
    • May 1, 2024
      Ebsco Stacks? and other vendor Knowledge Portals/Centers products
      Sandra asked, "What is your opinion on leveraging external vendor products to host your internal knowledge portal site compared to custom building internally?"There have been no replies, so …
    • May 1, 2024
      Re: Alt. term for 'KM'?
      I avoid using the term KM nowadays and focus more on the individual areas of the organisation's problems. Then, loosely tie them into  Organisational Learning / Knowledge Asset Integration / Coll …
    • April 30, 2024
      Knowledge Worker Columns
      The discussion about an alternate name for KM, reminded me that for 10 years I wrote a monthly Knowledge Worker column. In all, I published 105 of them. All are available at no charge on my website. G …
    • April 30, 2024
      Re: Alt. term for 'KM'?
      Good food for thought! Our team (Global Knowledge Services) uses an acronym (GKS) but no one seems to remember it; they always seem to refer to some iteration of the full name- Knowledge Services, the …

Web Channels

SIKM on Groups.io (discussion forum) SIKM on freeconferencecall (videoconferencing) SIKM on slideshare (documents) SIKM Boston on PBworks (wiki) SIKM Boston on twitter (microblogging)
Home » Providers

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *