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:

Communities

Chapters

  • SIKM Global Group (start: Aug 2005)
    • SIKM Community Champions
  • SIKM Boston Chapter (start: Jan 2009)
  • SIKM Dublin (start: 10/2025)
  • SIKM NYC Group (Dec 2015 – Dec 2016)
  • SIKM San Francisco Bay Area Group (start: Sep 2018)
  • Detroit KM Community

Subgroups

  • Knowledge Management Peer Mentoring Program Community

Training

  • Would you like to have a KM MENTOR? Peer Mentoring Programme for KM practitioners (start: 2023; w. KM4Dev)
      Info/Review Sessions:
      Feb 2025: KM Peer Mentoring Program Update
      Feb 2024: KM Peer Mentoring Pilot Debrief

      KMGN Global Week Sessions
      2025: Stories of our 30 Years in KM: The Unvarnished Truths (with Liam Fahey, Stan Garfield and Dave Snowden); To Transfer Knowledge and Expertise: MENTORING works!

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; A map of 250 monthly SIKM calls (by Ana Neves, Knowman)

  • Chapter meetings
    List of Meetings
  • SIKM Peer Assists, Knowledge Cafes, Fishbowls, etc.
  • Get-togethers @ KM events (mainly at KMWorld conference)
    • 15th SIKM Leaders Community Meet-up at KMWorld, Nov 2025 (Orga: Stan Garfield)
    • 14th SIKM Leaders Community Dinner at KMWorld, Nov 19 or 20, 2024 (Orga: Stan Garfield)
    • 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

    • July 20, 2026
      Re: Faith-based KM?
      In which case may I offer 12 step fellowship, with steps, traditions, concepts – a distributed adaptive complex adaptive system made coherent and safe by shared rituals. I have long thought this one o …
    • July 20, 2026
      Re: Faith-based KM?
      Thanks to all of you who responded. To answer Patrick's question – I ask the question because I'm annoyed with my church 😁. To summarize the responses, in case anyone is interested: Faith co …
    • July 20, 2026
      July 2026 SIKM Call: Johel Brown-Grant – Organizational Narratives as Knowledge Assets
      This is a reminder of tomorrow's monthly call from 11 am to 12 noon EDT.  July 21, 2026 SIKM Call: Johel Brown-Grant – Organizational Narratives as Knowledge Assets Slides For online chat, use th …
    • July 19, 2026
      Re: What's your take: Is KM losing its soul to IT? Reflections on the SECI model in the AI era
      Hi Keith, You wrote: “The real insight… is that organizations without a governed knowledge foundation will feed AI incomplete context and get confidently wrong outputs at scale.” I agree.  I just wa …
    • July 19, 2026
      Re: What's your take: Is KM losing its soul to IT? Reflections on the SECI model in the AI era
      Hi Barbara, The premise of the paper is, in my opinion, not wrong.  However, it is also my opinion that it presents no new concepts.  The Human Knowledge + Technology = New Knowledge that gets continu …
    • July 18, 2026
      Re: I’m new here
      Thank you Curtis. 
    • July 18, 2026
      Re: I’m new here
      Thank you Anna. Nice to meet you. 
    • July 17, 2026
      Re: I’m new here
      Marco – speaking of Synthesis, I recently saw this upcoming event that looks like an interesting case study on rolling it out as part of a sustained KM effort — https://www.linkedin.com/events/webina …
    • July 17, 2026
      Re: I’m new here
      Hi Marco, I'm Anna. I work at Barton Malow, a construction company based in Southfield, Michigan. I managed our SharePoint intranet for several years and now work on a Data and Automation team, f …
    • July 17, 2026
      Re: Lessons Learned + Organizational Intelligence
      Speaking of lessons learned, some of you may enjoy this semi-humorous rant on the subject I just posted on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-lessons-from-world-cup-dennis-pearce-qi7i …

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