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

    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Well, the whole point of my last response was that just leaving the role of AI to fate was a questionable response, a sales-driven promise of utopia that fails to show due caution to the significant d …
    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Friends –   I won’t claim expertise here, but I’d offer a set of thoughts and observations.   First, enterprise search — ~20 years ago – was supposed to revolutionize knowledge management.  Certainly …
    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Let's agree not to agree, and let the future be our judge.  
    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      That is a strawman argument, Moria. No one, least of all me, is saying that we can do without technology or that it doesn’t have value. My point was that:you were wrong to suggest that the last three …
    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Dave,Thank you for taking part in these discussions, here and in our KMGN "LEVERAGING THE VALUE CREATION OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE" course.  People and culture, were and will always be, essential. …
    • March 17, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      I did not comment on your awareness of AI pitfalls, and I wouldn't want to make any judgment about that based on promotional mail anyway.However, I pointed out that AI proponents are repeating th …
    • March 16, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Amen Dave! KM seems to be enamored with technology as the solution and tends to forget its more people and process…murray On Friday, March 15, 2024 at 08:25:38 AM PDT, Dave Snowden via groups.io wro …
    • March 16, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      Dave,I am well aware of AI pitfalls. However, [Generative-AI + Human] augmentation has the potential to lead a revolution in how KM is performed and, generally, in knowledge work.Human KM has been her …
    • March 16, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      I love that final sentence Dave! :-)
    • March 15, 2024
      Re: Seeking new KM Business Partners
      I'm not sure about asserting a choice between embracing AI or anchoring to the ’tried and true.’  That comes across as an assumptive close: labelling one choice as conservative and the other as r …

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)
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