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)
  • Detroit KM Community

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)
    • 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

    • November 23, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      Hi Rob, Patrick, et al   Well stated Rob and Patrick.   Obviously every maturity modeling exercise is unique, but there are common, research-based threads that should run through all of them. So a goo …
    • November 23, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      I’m completely with Chris on this – I was always very sceptical of general maturity models for the precise reason that they are blind to the contextual specifics of an organization’s situation and nee …
    • November 23, 2024
      Re: Career Pivot to KM
      I see. I was briefly the KM lead at a regional bank. They had just bought a collaboration platform and wanted help identifying use cases and figuring out where to use it. While my role there was short …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      Hey Guilherm, I think the APQC maturity assessment is a good start as you mentioned in the original question despite the theory replies. It would be nice to have a database of the maturity approaches …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      You’re talking about productivity methods but even they have made the ‘transformational’ claim in their time But this just makes Doug’s original response more problematic. If you need productivity imp …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      Hi Dave –   I understand that you’ve not seen it – but as you well know “no evidence of something isn’t evidence of its lack of existence.”   CQI/PDSA/etc are designed around transactional change.  Th …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      I don’t know of any change management programme that claimed to be transactional, they all claimed to be transformational.   It’s marketing hype no more no less.There is no body qualified to determine …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      Hi Dave –   Let me jump in here with a few things.    First, I'd agree with you that change management programs try to differentiate themselves.   One of the very first blogs for Confident Change …
    • November 22, 2024
      Re: Assessing Level of Maturity
      Every change management programme I’ve seen in the last 50 years has claimed to be transforminal and contrasted itself with ‘tradition’ past practice. You need to say what you mean by the claim Then w …
    • November 22, 2024
      Sharing and Subscribing
      Another great week of KMWorld concluded yesterday. I want to take this opportunity to share some content and suggest four subscriptions.   KMWorld 2024 KMWorld Presentations My KM 101 Workshop slides …

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