The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Certification Courses

• Advanced Knowledge Management Black Belt Program / Training Week / Master Executive (w. Wyrsch & Partner)
  Levels: Orange, Green or Black Knowledge Management Practice Belt

KM Institute Switzerland certification programs

• (private/in-house) Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) Training
  (Public workshop locations: Geneva, Basel, Lucerne)

Communities

• InnovationWell Community of Practice ¹⁾
  Knowledge-based Innovation in Life Science Product Development
• KnowledgeFerry – Knowledge Management Community of Practice

Workshops

DouglasConnect Workshops

• Knowledge Cafés ²⁾
  – Knowledge and Collaboration, 23 April 2008, Basel, Switzerland
  – Knowledge and Leadership, 25 April 2007, Basel, Switzerland

KM Institute Switzerland Workshops

• Implement Grass Root Knowledge Management
  (first 2 days/Theme 1 of the 5-day Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) program; was: Advanced Knowledge Management Essentials Program)

InnovationWell Workshops

• Advances in Information, Communications and Knowledge Management Support Systems for R&D, 12 October 2009, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA
• Advances in Knowledge Management Support Systems in R&D, 13 October 2008, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia
• Advances in Information, Communications and Knowledge Management Support Systems for R&D, 15–16 October 2007, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA
• InnovationWell Workshop & Innovation Café: Knowledge Management, Assessment & Performance Improvement of Collaborative R&D and Innovation Activities
• Drug Discovery Training Week, 3-7 July 2006, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
  Drug Safety Workshop – Risk Management, Labeling Decision-Making, Personalized Medicine, and Knowledge-based Clinical Decision Support
  The Electronic Laboratory Notebook – Systems for Managing Research Knowledge, Supporting Collaboration and Driving Innovation
  Innovation and Knowledge Management in Research & Product Development

Conferences

InnovationWell Community of Practice InterAction Meetings

• InnovationWell InterAction Meeting, 16-19 October 2006, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA
  Sessions:
  Utilising Knowledge Management to increase R&D; Productivity along Critical Paths

  Decision Support for Research & Development
  Application of Metabolomics to Drug Discovery & Development
  Biomarker Discovery & Applications in Drug Development

  Workshop:
  Carrying out an Onsite Audit and Self-assessment in Clinical Trial Management
  Knowledge Assessment in R&D; – Impact on Project Management & Research Productivity
  Information Management Needs by Translational Researchers
  Applying Roadmap processes to the Clinical Trials Project Process
  Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Accelerate Drug Development
  Innovation Management in R&D
  NMR-based Positional Isotopomer Analysis in Metabolomics
  Linking metabolic profiles to biological outcome
  Understanding Metabolomics Mixtures with Principal Components Analysis
  Analyzing in-situ Proteomics by Multi Epitope Ligand Kartography (MELK) for Detection of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Biomarkers

  Open Event on Knowledge Management in R&D:
  Electronic Laboratory Notebook Presentations
  Open Seminars & Panel Discussion
  Knowledge Café on Knowledge Management in R&D

  Co-located events:
  eCheminfo InterAction Meeting and Workshops

• InnovationWell InterAction Meeting, 11-12 October, 2005, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA | 9-10 November, 2005, Basel, Switzerland
  Meeting Theme: Knowledge-based Innovation in Life Science Product Development
  Philadelphia Sessions:
  Roundtable Discussion on Confidence in Safety
  Knowledge Management in R&D — optimizing productivity in knowledge creation, capture, retrieval and transfer
  Drug Discovery Innovation
  Personalized Medicine: Safety and Efficacy Concerns Discussed as a Case Study
  Drug Development Innovation
  Web-based Services in Drug Design
  Protein Folding, Misfolding & Aggregation: Applications to Disease

  Basel Sessions:
  Drug Discovery Innovation
  Knowledge-based Intellectual Property Management
  Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Trafficking
  Knowledge Management in R&D
  Biosensors and Nanofluidics
  Life Science Innovation Café — Confidence in Safety
  Complex Systems & Organisational Development Approaches
  Roundtable Discussion on Confidence in Safety

• InnovationWell InterAction Executive Summit, April 25-26, 2005, Philadelphia, USA | May 30-31, 2005, Basel, Switzerland
  Meeting Theme: Drug Safety Knowledge Management
  Introduction

  Sessions:
  Business Opportunities, Challenges & Strategies
  Knowledge Integrative Strategies & Approaches
  Support Systems for Drug Safety Knowledge Management
  Knowledge Transfer and Product Life Cycle Management

KM Pharma & Life Sciences Virtual Conferences

• Integrating Knowledge in the Life Science Product Life Cycle, 18 – 29 October 2004, Online
  (Organizer: DouglassConnect KM in Pharma and Life Sciences Hub)
  Keynotes:
  The Pharma Industry as a Knowledge Zone
  Best Knowledge Management Practices (including a robust KM Primer)
  Large-scale Social Learning Systems and Individual Identity
  Applying the Semantic Web to Drug Discovery

  Sessions:
  Knowledge-based business strategies, chaired by Lorie Karnath, Rescentris
  Supporting Innovation in Life Science Product Development
  Enabling the knowing of what we know with Ontologies and Semantic Web approaches
  Increasing the effectiveness of Scientific Data Exchange and Integration
  Safety and Pharmacovigilance Issues in Product Knowledge Management
  Knowledge-enabled Healthcare Delivery
  Intellectual Property and Valuation
  New developments in electronic-based R&D; and Laboratory Information Management Systems
  Baton=Passing: How to Build a Fast, Cross-Team Approach to Learning that Accelerates Project Team Velocity
  Increasing the effectiveness of Scientific Data Exchange and Integration
  Improving the Effectiveness of Clinical Trial Management

• Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical Research and Development (KM Pharma 2003), 1-5 December 2003
  (Organizer: Eyeforpharma Knowledge Management Hub (First Conferences), Douglas Connect, Metalayer)
  Keynotes:
  KM Strategies to nurture Innovation

  Presentations:
  An Introduction to the Eyeforpharma KM Hub and KM in Pharma R&D conference
  Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Prescription for Supporting Collaboration in Research and Development
  Intellectual Capital, Corporate Longitude and Business Agility
  Optimizing Knowledge Management in pharma R&D
  Integrating electronic lab notebooks and knowledge management systems to accelerate discovery
  Knowledge Management Challenges in the Healthcare Delivery Market
  From Blogs to Augmented Social Networks: Applications enabling enhanced communication and collective intelligence in Pharma R&D
  Organisation and delivery of the NeLH
  The Power of Applying What Others Have Learned
  Building Knowledge Innovation Capability
  The Art of Finding Powerful Answers – applying information chain management in R&D
  Evaluating Investment Decisions in Pharma Knowledge Management projects
  Pharma R&D Data Management using an Enterprise Electronic Lab Notebook Approach

• Knowledge Sharing Strategies for the Pharma Lifecycle (KM Pharma 2003), June 2003, Online
  (Organizer: Eyeforpharma Knowledge Management Hub (First Conferences), Douglas Connect, Metalayer)
  Keynotes:
  Building a vibrant knowledge culture at your company
  Strategies for ensuring the success of your company’s KM initiative
  Do you want a power drill or a hole? – Knowledge Management without a computer

  Challenges and Best Practices in Knowledge Networks:
  – Intellectual Capital Navigation
  – Discovering the “Multiplier Effect”
  – Challenges and Successes in Knowledge Networks
  – Online Knowledge Community Hubs

  Best Practice KM strategies for Decision Support
  The Faces of Pharma: Creative destruction of Silos and Strategy
  Case study: How Aventis is making Knowledge Management an integral part of the value chain
  From Artificial Intelligence to Knowledge Management: learn from the history of your organization to effect the organization of tomorrow
  Case Study: Eli Lilly’s knowledge-based change initiative
  Key tactics to improve collaboration in global teams
  Knowledge Management, Data integration and Knowledge Engineering solutions in IK@N at Novartis
  Beyond ROI: Metrics – how do you measure performance and value in the short term and beyond
  Supporting Collaboration in Research and Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb
  Qualitative Analytics and the Networked Value Chain – The road to a smart and lean pharmaceutical company

Lectrures

Virtual lectures and talks (InnovationWell)

• Knowledge Management in Drug Safety
• Building the Drug Safety Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge Management Strategies to Nurture Innovating
• Intellectual capital, corporate longitude and business agility