Boston KM Forum*

Conferences

• Bentley College Symposium**
  
  List of Symposia

  201120102009200820072006200520042003

  • Fitting SharePoint to Knowledge Initiatives, July 20, 2011
  • Knowledge Management Café: Applying Knowledge to Meta & Master Data Management, April 27, 2011 (In association with the New England Chapter of the Data Management Association)

  • Knowledge Management Café – 2nd in a Series: Applying Knowledge to Organizational Challenges, December 7, 2010
  • Decision-Making and Decision Support, October 6, 2010
  • Knowledge Management Café – Table-talking Knowledge Management Challenges, April 29, 2010 (Joint program with SLA Boston)

  • Personal Knowledge Management — Professional Know-how, October 22, 2009
  • Multi-cultural collaboration: Working in Teams Across Disciplines, Geographies, and Languages, June 30, 2009
  • Leveraging Virtual Teams & Social Tools for Business Advantage: Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, et al., March 31, 2009

  • Semantics – the Next Frontier for Leveraging Knowledge, October 7, 2008
  • Tagging and Categorization – Thoughts from Thought Leaders, June 25, 2008
  • Knowledge Management 2.0 – Real or Hype?, April 9, 2008

  • Knowledge Management – Current Directions, featuring Dave Snowden, October 1, 2007
  • Leadership – Why It’s Critical to Knowledge Management Success, June 26, 2007

  • Dark Blogs: Internal Blogs for Leveraging Knowledge, December 18, 2006
  • Finding Experts, October 19, 2006
  • Finding Stuff, June 29 , 2006
  • Collaboration – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, March 30, 2006

  • Leveraging Knowledge through Collaboration, December 15, 2005
  • Leveraging Knowledge Across Research and Operations in Science and Healthcare, September 27, 2005
  • Knowledge Management’s Value-Add – Generating Value by Leveraging Knowledge, May 3, 2005

  • Knowledge Assets: Leveraging their Value at Raytheon: A Case Study, June 30, 2004 (Joint Meeting with KMPro New England)
  • Knowledge Sharing: The Customer/Client Relationship: What We Can Learn from Healthcare Providers, April 8, 2004 (Joint Meeting with KMPro New England)

  • Accelerating Innovation by Leveraging Intellectual Capital, November 4, 2003 (Joint Meeting with KMPro New England)
  • Establishing the ROI of Investments in Knowledge Management Initiatives: Predicting & Measuring Success, June 25, 2003 (Joint Meeting with KMPro New England)
  • Knowledge Management Reaps Benefits from IT Innovations in Big Pharma, April 24, 2003 (Joint Meeting with KMPro New England)

Meetings

• Monthly Friday Morning Breakfast Meetings** ²⁾
  
  List of Meetings

  2012201120102009200820072006200520042003

  • No meetings scheduled for 2012 at present.

  • 2011-12: no meeting
  • 2011-11:
  • 2011-10: Staying Secure While Sharing & Acquiring Knowledge While Reflecting on Job’s Persona
  • 2011-09: Transitioning to a Knowledge Management Service Operation
  • 2011-08: Age Divides and Knowledge Management
  • 2011-07: Staging a SharePoint Summit: What do you Need to Know?
  • 2011-06: Using Text Analytics to Understand Social Media Content
  • 2011-05: Comparing Roles and Responsibilities: Metadata vs. Master Data Management
  • 2011-04: Where and How to Find Hidden Metadata in Legacy Knowledge Assets
  • 2011-03: Knowledge; Prompting Sharing Anyhow or Anywhere
  • 2011-02: Comparing Free Information Resources: Internet Search Engines +
  • 2011-01: What is Content Context & Why is it Important in Organizational Effectiveness?

  • 2010-12: “Choice Architecture”: Another Take on Decision-making
  • 2010-11: Creating Knowledge-bases from Electronic Financial Transactions
  • 2010-10:
  • 2010-09: Electronic Medical Records Adoption
  • 2010-08: Leveraging Knowledge by Leading the Leaders
  • 2010-07: Mis-spent Knowledge: Lessons Learned from Disasters
  • 2010-06: What can the Facebook Model do for Your Enterprise?
  • 2010-05: Best of the Knowledge Management Cafe – A Recap of the April 29th Symposium at Bentley U.
  • 2010-04: How Social Networks Can Improve Enterprise Public Faces
  • 2010-03: Knowledge Management Gurus – Who are they & What Guidance do they Provide for You?
  • 2010-02: What are the Qualifications for Knowledge Management Roles?
  • 2010-01: no meeting

  • 2009-12: Using NING.com for Boston Knowledge Management Forum or Your Enterprise
  • 2009-11: How Text Analytics, BI and Data Mining/Text Mining Contribute to Knowledge Management
  • 2009-10: Using Conversations to Further Knowledge Management Objectives
  • 2009-09: no meeting
  • 2009-08: Decision-Making: How Knowledge Influences Outcomes
  • 2009-07: no meeting
  • 2009-06: Google Book Project & Other Ventures to Preserve Out-of-Print or Never-in-Print
  • 2009-05: Twittering Away Your Knowledge
  • 2009-04: no meeting
  • 2009-03: Social Contracts within Enterprises
  • 2009-02: From Tag Cloud to Taxonomy or Ontology
  • 2009-01:

  • 2008-12: What Media Publishing Models Are Succeeding in Spreading Knowledge?
  • 2008-11: The Knowledge Exchange: Examples of Intranets and Other Internal Platforms as Sharing Portals
  • 2008-10: Leveraging Tags for Taxonomy Development
  • 2008-09: Primary Tools: Capturing, Using, Sharing and Leveraging Knowledge and Expertise
  • 2008-08: Pains that Influence Collaboration Tool Adoption
  • 2008-07:
  • 2008-06: Boston Knowledge Management Forum Blog – A Case Study in How to Share What We Know
  • 2008-05: Selling Knowledge Management in a Hostile World
  • 2008-04: The Learning Knowledge Connection
  • 2008-03: Who Should be the Business Owner of Knowledge Management Initiatives?
  • 2008-02: Categorizing Tools for the Desktop: Automated or Manual
  • 2008-01: Evolution of Tagging – How are You or Your Communities Adapting to Tools and Needs?

  • 2007-12: After Search — What Next?
  • 2007-11: Selecting and Managing Your Most Critical Knowledge Domains
  • 2007-10: Using Knowledge Mapping – Application and Practicum
  • 2007-09: Knowledge Mapping: Leveraging Visualization Tools
  • 2007-08: Mind Mapping: ontology and other tools
  • 2007-07: Leading the Knowledge Management Effort by Example
  • 2007-06: What Skills do You Use or Need in Your Role in Knowledge Management?
  • 2007-05: Best Bets: Links for Good and Useful Information on Knowledge Management and Search
  • 2007-04:
  • 2007-03:
  • 2007-02: Sharing Experiences with LinkedIn and Similar Networking
  • 2007-01: What can we Learn from our External Networks? (1st of two programs on “Gaining value from our networks”)

  • 2006-12: What Tools and Techniques Do We Use to Get Connected to Others?
  • 2006-11: Trusted Bloggers
  • 2006-10: Web 2.0 – The Intellectuals’ Playground?
  • 2006-09: Taxonomy Roll-out
  • 2006-08: Categorization Exercise Part 3 – Taxonomy Building
  • 2006-07: Categorization Exercise Part 2 – What Term Selection Contributes to Content Findability
  • 2006-06: A Taxonomy Exercise, Part II – Categorizing
  • 2006-05: A Taxonomy Exercise
  • 2006-04: What are the human costs of Taxonomy Development and Can We Find People to Do It?
  • 2006-03: Your Professional Compentencies Applied to Knowledge Management
  • 2006-02: Blogs Applied to Knowledge Management Collaboration: A Working Session
  • 2006-01: National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) and the Lockheed Martin Project -Electronic Archives

  • 2005-12: What Do We Think About Blogs for Knowledge Management?
  • 2005-11: Establishing the Minimal Requirements for Technology Solutions to Support Knowledge Management Initiatives
  • 2005-10: The Unfulfilled Promise – In What Ways Have “Knowledge Management Solutions” Failed to Deliver?
  • 2005-09: Finding and Tracking Expertise
  • 2005-08: Tapping the Well – What Knowledge Resources Do You Find the Most Productive
  • 2005-07: National Archives and Records Administration, NE Regional headquarters, facility introduction and tour
  • 2005-06: Framing the Discussion – Aligning Your Language with Business Goals to Achieve Buy-in for Knowledge Management Initiatives
  • 2005-05: How do you Articulate the Value of Metadata Capture?
  • 2005-01: Fleshing out a Model for Collaboration

  • 2004-11: Is the Increasing volume of SPAM E-mail Diluting your Incoming Knowledge Base; What are you doing about it?

  Previous Breakfast meetings (since Feb 2003) sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro)

  • 2004-08: Defining the “Content” in “Content Management”
  • 2004-07: Keeping Content Fresh
  • 2004-06: Examples of Taxonomies & Ontologies
  • 2004-05: Differentiating Taxonomies and Ontologies
  • 2004-04: Identifying Communities of Practice
  • 2004-03: Beginning Knowledge Mapping Workshop
  • 2004-02: Where is Enterprise Knowledge Being Captured?
  • 2004-01: The Role of Records Management in the Knowledge Organization

  Breakfast meetings sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro)

  • 2003-12: 2003 wrap-up & IT Infrastructure and Applications for Managing Regulatory Information
  • 2003-11: Regulatory Content Resources
  • 2003-10: Informatics
  • 2003-08: Enterprise Search
  • 2003-07: Web Search
  • 2003-06: Taxonomy
  • 2003-05: Measures – How do You Demonstrate that Your New Knowledge Management Initiative Has Benefits?
  • 2003-04: Collaboration
  • 2003-02: First organizing meeting
• Monthly Thursday Afternoon Meetings
  
  List of Meetings

  20152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002

  “Suspended until further notice”
  • 2015-03: Records Management
  • 2015-02: 2015 and Beyond – Knowing What to Expect (or Reject)
  • 2015-01: Knowledge Strategy, Drawing on Experience to Succeed with Bob Armacost

  • 2014-12: Designing Digital Knowledge-based Systems, an Interview with Gary Kahn
  • 2014-11: Overcoming Barriers to Change for Knowledge Initiative Success
  • 2014-10: Helping Leaders Lead the Knowledge Sharing Initiative: Your Role
  • 2014-09: How Leaders Establish a Knowledge Sharing Culture
  • 2014-08: Knowledge Leadership: The Art of Inquiry in the Organization
  • 2014-07: Mentoring: A Key to Knowledge Transfer with Elizabeth McCoy
  • 2014-06: Impact of Cultural Shifts and Enterprise Mergers on Knowledge Management Initiatives with Suzanne Mrozak
  • 2014-05: Exploring Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer at the FAA with Giora Hadar
  • 2014-04: Leveraging Knowledge in Oxfam America’s Humanitarian Response Efforts
  • 2014-03: Exploring A Career in Knowledge Leadership; Interviewing Ray Sims Deloitte
  • 2014-02: no meeting
  • 2014-01: Invention: the Knowledge Inventiveness Connection

  • 2013-12: Knowledge Management Professionals and Healthcare Informatics: An Interview with Allan Lewis
  • 2013-11: Knowledge Management World Highlight: Dave Snowden on Human Sensor Networks with Technology Augmentation
  • 2013-10: Knowledge Well-Managed Supports Legal Professionals: Interview with David Hobbie
  • 2013-09: National Archives Policy Analyst Jill Snyder
  • 2013-08: Relating Structured Content and Data Modeling to Knowledge Management: Guest Norman Daoust
  • 2013-07: What we Know about Enterprise Search from the Findwise Survey
  • 2013-06: Benchmarking Knowledge Management: Results of a Study by MITRE Corporation
  • 2013-05: Organizing Content & Expert Knowledge without Spending a Million Bucks
  • 2013-04: Leveraging Data for PLM with Oleg Shilovitsky
  • 2013-03: Faculty Research Assets at Harvard Business School: an Interview with Melissa Shaffer
  • 2013-02: Leveraging Intangibles: Learn How to Get Smarter about Organizational Knowledge
  • 2013-01: Practical Knowledge Management Survey Results; Analysis and Commentary from Participants

  • 2012-12: Peter O’Kelly on How Big Data Becomes Actionable Information and Other Gilbane Conference Output
  • 2012-11: Knowledge Exchanges in an Online World
  • 2012-10: Launching a Knowledge Sharing Initiative; Insights on How To or Not To
  • 2012-09: no meeting
  • 2012-08: canceled
  • 2012-07: SharePoint Roundup – Sentri Panel
  • 2012-06: Knowledge Relationships in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals: Perspectives from Martin Streeter
  • 2012-05: Trends and Futures in Search Technology; Impacts on Knowledge Initiatives
  • 2012-04: Joyce Ward: An Interview on Semantic Content Enrichment at LexisNexis, etc.
  • 2012-03: Technology Strains and Stressors for IT and Knowledge Leaders: A Joint meeting of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and Boston SIKM
  • 2012-02: Transferring Knowledge and Strategies for Managing Change with Kathy Hagen
  • 2012-01: Role of Informatics in R&D, Strategy Formulation and Business Development

  • 2011-12: Perspectives on Knowledge Management in Management Education, and Information Sharing Systems in China
  • 2011-11: An Interview with Mary Lee Kennedy: How Knowledge Strategies can Impact Global Educational and Business Landscapes
  • 2011-10: Who “Owns” Knowledge Assets, Content and Search in the Enterprise?
  • 2011-09: Where is the “Knowledge” for the Knowledge Worker?
  • 2011-08: Embedding Knowledge Assets into the Workflow of the Physician
  • 2011-07: No meeting
  • 2011-06: A Career in Knowledge-based Operations: Conversation with Ralph Poole
  • 2011-05: Strategic Initiatives and Social Media: An Interview with Carol Rozwell
  • 2011-04: no meeting
  • 2011-03: Decision Support Systems that Adapt to New Knowledge
  • 2011-02: How Complexity is Managed Using the Cynefin framework to Enhance Innovation and Knowledge Capture
  • 2011-01: Applying Semantic Technology to Knowledge Assets

  • 2010-12: Intelligent Decision Making: It’s not just about Finding Information; It’s about Context, Insight and Perspective
  • 2010-11: SIKM Boston Chapter: RoundRobin and Workshopping
  • 2010-10: Influences on How I Can Make Better Decisions
  • 2010-09: Electronic Medical Records: The Healthcare Information Experts Weigh In
  • 2010-08: Knowledge Management as a Lever of Cultural Change: a Case Study of a Global NGO
  • 2010-07: Knowledge Management in China: A Tale of Two Companies
  • 2010-06: Performance Enhancing: Learning + Knowledge = ?
  • 2010-05: Taking Twitter to the Next Level
  • 2010-04:
  • 2010-03: Knowledge Management – Has the Torch been Passed to a New Generation?
  • 2010-02: Finding Knowledge Assets: How Web search behavior can be applied to the Enterprise Intranet
  • 2010-01: A Twofer: Making a Successful Knowledge Management Manager + Snapshots of the CES Show in Las Vegas

  • 2009-12: Deliver Us from Web 2.0 Content Chaos: Activity, Attraction and Personal Knowledge Create the Awareness Engine
  • 2009-11: Social Networking Technologies – Challenges for Product Development & Effective Integration into the Enterprise
  • 2009-10: Getting the Most Knowledge Management Bang-for-your-(information technology) bucks
  • 2009-09: Eliciting Knowledge and Putting it to Work: How to Leverage Seekers’ Incentives and Curiosity
  • 2009-08: Transforming your Structure to be Relevant in a Knowledge World
  • 2009-07: Lessons Learned: Strategy Consulting Firm Implements SharePoint to Support Knowledge Management
  • 2009-06: Knowledge Management on Your Mind? A Forum for All
  • 2009-05: Close Connections, Close Relatives: Electronic Records Management & Technology /Records Management & Knowledge Management
  • 2009-04: Sharing and Absorbing Knowledge Across Organizational and Global Cultures
  • 2009-03: Emergence – Get with it, or fade away
  • 2009-02: The Role of Knowledge Management in Innovation – Case Studies
  • 2009-01: Selected Views into Clinical Knowledge Management at Partners Healthcare

  • 2008-12: Is There an Emerging Semantic Architecture? And Why Does it Matter?
  • 2008-11: The Walls Came Tumbling Down—Librarians & Social YES-Working!
  • 2008-10: How to Get it Done: Lessons Learned Leveraging Knowledge
  • 2008-09: Tag Me! Social BooKnowledge Managementarking in the Enterprise
  • 2008-08: “Tribal Knowledge” – Who within the Contact Center has the knowledge, and how can we engage them to share their wisdom?
  • 2008-07: Dispatches from the Front Lines of SharePoint-based Collaboration
  • 2008-06: The Center for Semantic Excellence: Solving “Wicked Problems” Not Addressed by the For-profit Sector
  • 2008-05: So You Were Just Promoted to Knowledge Manager – Now What?
  • 2008-04: Highlights from Knowledge Management 2.0 – Certainties, Show-Stoppers and Still-to-be-determined
  • 2008-03: Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences (with knowledge-based decision support systems)
  • 2008-02: Leveraging Expert Knowledge in a Fast-Paced Start-up: Anecdotes from the Field
  • 2008-01: Managing Evidence at the Speed of Change: The Partners Healthcare Knowledge Management Approach

  • 2007-12: The Five Pitfalls of Ideation
  • 2007-11:
  • 2007-10: From Networking to Net Work
  • 2007-09: Mapping Concepts, Process & Knowledge to Drive Innovation. Visualization techniques as tools for the mind that facilitate innovative thinking
  • 2007-08: Where do Ideas Come From?
  • 2007-07: Coolhunting through Swarm Creativity
  • 2007-06: Using Stories to Widen the Impact of Knowledge Management
  • 2007-05: High-Growth CEO Forums™ — Unique CEO exchange to solve critical challenges and build best practices for growth
  • 2007-04: Your knowledge portal is working, but it isn’t
  • 2007-03: Enterprise Deployment: Warts and All (A Working Session on Intranet Development)
  • 2007-02: Creativity =/= Innovation. How Organizations Can Really Make Innovation Happen
  • 2007-01: It’s Not What You Think [on the topic of Insights]

  • 2006-12:
  • 2006-11: A Knowledge Management Workshop; Critical Success Factors for Knowledge Management Initiatives
  • 2006-10:
  • 2006-09: Tagging and the Folksonomy
  • 2006-08: Increasing Knowledge Transfer by Adapting Information Presentation Style on the Fly
  • 2006-07: Knowledge Assets: Can You Measure the Intangible?
  • 2006-06: Engineering the Community of Practice for Maintenance of Organizational Knowledge
  • 2006-05: Going Beyond “Innovation as Usual” to Make a World of Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True
  • 2006-04: Inserting the “K” Initiative into the Organization (by stealth)
  • 2006-03: To Tag or Not To Tag: Should We be Structuring our Knowledge Assets or is Free-text Search Enough?
  • 2006-02: An Introduction to Sense-making; Understanding Difficult Challenges Using Cynefin Methods
  • 2006-01: Ambient Findability: Is It the Prequel or the Sequel to Knowledge Management?

  • 2005-12: Leveraging Knowledge Through Collaboration
  • 2005-11: What do Blogs Bring to Knowledge Management and Communication within the Enterprise?
  • 2005-10: Deep Smarts: The Engine of Every Organization
  • 2005-09: Merging Formal and Informal Learning
  • 2005-08: Positioning Enterprise Search: Case Studies of What it is and What it should be
  • 2005-07: The Semantic Web and Federal Enterprise Architecture
  • 2005-06: Collaboration Revealed through Social Network Analysis
  • 2005-05: Structured vs. Unstructured Search – a lesson from the front line of biopharmaceutical R&D
  • 2005-04: Learning Systems for Networked Knowledge Management: Renewal in the Colorado River Delta
  • 2005-03: Using Semantic Web Technologies to Integrate the Enterprise
  • 2005-02: A new way to facilitate innovation and collaboration across borders by connecting people!
  • 2005-01: Fleshing out a Model for Collaboration

  • 2004-12: Haystack: Per-User Information Environments
  • 2004-10: …
  • 2004-09: …
  • 2004-08: Beyond Search: Extracting Entities, Meaning and Emotion from Content
  • 2004-05: Stealth Knowledge Management – Embedding Knowledge Management into Daily Work Processes to Achieve Business Results
  • 2004-03: Knowledge Management and Processing to Support Strategic Business Decisions
  • 2004-02: Communities at Novell: A Case Study

  • 2003-12: Bridging Knowledge at The Bridgespan Group: Knowledge Management in a Non-Profit Consulting Firm
  • 2003-10: 20 years of search and categorization projects
  • 2003-09: …
  • 2003-07: Collaboration Models: Pure and Hybrid
  • 2003-06: The U.S. Army’s National Training Center: A Model for Integrated Learning and Knowledge Systems
  • 2003-05: When Knowledge Management Goes Right! – Lessons From A Professional Services Firm (Knowledge Management at Bain)
  • 2003-04: Using a Knowledge Portal for Web-enabled Collaboration
  • 2003-03: What The Search-Box Teaches Us About Web Site Design, E-Commerce and Usability
  • 2003-02: Using a Knowledge Portal for
    Web-enabled Collaboration; Changing the Online Marketing Research Landscape
  • 2003-01: Convening (Peer-to-Peer for People)

  • 2002-12: …
  • 2002-11: Knowledge Management In Government (Content Networking: The XML Web Services Way; The New Crisis Management in Homeland Security: Knowledge Sharing Between the Public/Private Sectors)
  • 2002-10: Network-Centric Collaboration: Knowledge Creation at the Edge of the Network
  • 2002-09: Using Play to Improve Teams and Strategic Thinking
  • 2002-08: Using Knowledge To Drive Up The Performance Curve – McKinsey’s new approach
  • 2002-06: Best Medicine – IT and Organizational Design That Make Knowledge a Key Ingredient in Pharma Research
  • 2002-04: Harness the Brainpower: High ROI for Ideas Management; Social Network Analysis