KM Chicago*

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The USA-based KM Chicago, formerly the Chicago Chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro), ¹⁾ has built connections between knowledge managers and the communities in which they practice. It has presented timely Knowledge Management issues, trends and systems. Interactive, open discussion of value and trends was encouraged. Anyone involved with knowledge application or with a strong interest was welcome to participate and join together to form the community.

KM Chicago has offered the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

Meetings, Events

General Meetings: Second Tuesday / Third Tuesday Meetings
Joint events (e.g. with ARMA Chicago, SLA Illinois)
Networking Events (e.g. Ship & Share, Lunch & Learn, Holiday Meeting)
List of Meetings & Events
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2017-12: Holiday Gathering – What was your favorite Knowledge Management project of 2017? Did your Knowledge Management initiative leverage existing or create new knowledge in the organization? What’s on your 2018 Knowledge Management Wish List?

2017-11: How Knowledge Managers Can Drive Big Data Projects

2017-07: Connections in Context: ARMA/KM Free Networking Event (Joint ARMA Chicago and KM Chicago networking event)

2016-07: Connections in Context: Network, socialize and collaborate! (Joint KM Chicago, ARMA Chicago and SLA Illinois networking event)

2016-04: Learning with the system: building blocks for successful knowledge management programs

2016-03: Knowledge Management and Information Governance

2015-09: Ship & Share After Action Refreshments (AAR); Personal Knowledge Management: Cutting through Complexity—Building Cathedrals; Knowledge Management Best Practices within Service Orientated Learning Organizations (with HDI Chicago Chapter)

2015-08: Ship & Share After Action Refreshments (AAR)

2015-07: Ship & Share After Action Refreshments (AAR); Becoming Knowledge Aware Enterprise Wide; Networking, Socializing and Collaborating; KNOWledge SUCCESSion, Building Strategic Capabilities through Aligned Knowledge Flows

2015-06: Ship & Share After Action Refreshments (AAR)

2015-05: Ship & Share After Action Refreshments (AAR)

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2014-12:

2014-11:

2014-10: Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Adapting ECM to Industry-Specific Use Cases

2014-09:

2014-08:

2014-07: From Mind to Matter: The Convergence of Knowledge and Records Management

2014-06: Big Marketing: How “Big Data” is Changing Our Strategies

2014-05: Tech Trends in Information Governance

2014-04: Experts Telling Relevant Advice

2014-03: YMCA of the USA’s Extranet

2014-02: Enterprise Social Networks

2014-01: How to Transform a Manager to an inspirational Leader

2013-12: Holiday Party & summation of the 4 topics (How To Be A Connected Organization, The Impact of A Good Knowledge Management Process: Aligning Process and Approaches, If Only We Knew What We Know, Connecting the Knowledge Management Dots)

2013-11: Proliferating Content vs. Copyright

2013-10: Knowledge Transfer: Retaining Expertise When the Experts Leave (Workshop)

2013-09: Applied Knowledge Management in the Federal Government

2013-08:

2013-07: KM Chicago Summer Outing; Architectural boat tour

2013-06:

2013-05: Lean Six Sigma & Innovation

2013-04: canceled

2013-03: Analytics and Economic Evaluation

2013-02: Connecting In An Open World

2013-01: How To Be A Connected Organization

2012-12: KM Chicago Holiday Event

2012-11: Going Social – The Journey

2013-10: Taxonomy for a Knowledge Management Site – Why and How?

2012-09: Collaborating Minds: Solving Tough Problems with a Unique Team

2012-08:

2012-07: Annual Summer Social Gathering

2012-06: SharePoint creatively deployed; So Why Didn’t We Know That? Lunch & Learn at Willis Tower

2012-05: A look at virtual collaboration tools; On creating virtual collaborative space

2012-04: Designing space to enhance collaboration

2012-03: Knowledge Management’s role in innovation

2012-02: What makes Knowledge Management work in your industry

2012-01: no meeting<

2011-12: KM Chicago Holiday Event

2011-11: Business Innovation and The Experience Economy; Digital Agent of Change

2011-10: Knowledge Management as tightly integrated with organizational learning and change

2011-09: (Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium)

2011-08: no meeting

2011-07: Cruise the River with KM Chicago

2011-06: Knowledge Management at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

2011-05: Social Search Engines

2011-04: Commercial Sector Applications of Geographic Information Systems

2011-03: Knowledge Management & Learning

2011-02: Sharing Hidden Know-How: Knowledge Jam

2011-01: New Year’s Knowledge Management Resolution

2010-12: KM Chicago Holiday Celebration

2010-11: Knowledge Management Metrics Roundtable

2010-10: Knowledge Management at Allstate

2010-09: Practical Dos and Don’ts of Enterprise Prediction Markets

2010-08:

2010-07: Summer Social Event

2010-06: (Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium)

2010-05: Using Predictive Analytics to Solve Business Problems

2010-04: Knowledge Management in the Not-for-Profit Environment

2010-03: Identifying Objectives and Obtaining Executive Commitment for a Knowledge Management Program

2010-02: Practicing Communities of Practice with Ernst & Young

2010-01: Helping Knowledge Managementers in Transition, a Roundtable Discussion

2009-12:

2009-11: Not Your Typical Information Overload Presentation

2009-10: How Collaboration Drives Innovation at P&G

2009-09: (Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium)

2009-08: 7 Principles of Knowledge Management

2009-07: KM Chicago July Social Event

2009-06: Measuring ROI: an Award-Winning Accenture Case Study

2009-05: LinkedIn: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

2009-04: Taxonomies and Web 2.0

2009-03: Applying Knowledge Management in Academic Settings: Personal Knowledge Management and New Institutional Learning Models

2009-02: Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

2009-01: Best Practices and Essential Knowledge Management Jumping Off Points

2008-12: Annual KM Chicago holiday meeting

2008-11: Social Computing in the Enterprise

2008-10: Knowledge Retention: How to Keep Knowledge from Walking out the Door

2008-09: Perspectives on Web 2.0

2008-08: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

2008-07:

2008-06: Knowledge management in health care: opportunities for collaboration

2008-05: eDiscovery: What Information and Knowledge Managers Should Know

2008-04: Delivering on the KCS promise and empowering people by tracking the evolution of Knowledge: Six simple metrics that fit the bill

2008-03: Working with Knowledge Management Building Blocks: Starting and Sustaining a Knowledge Management Initiative at the Local Level

2008-02: Expertise Location Tools

2008-01: Highlights of the CKO Summit

2007-12: KM Chicago Holiday Celebration

2007-11: Using the Value Network Analysis concept for Knowledge Management

2007-10: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Knowledge Management

2007-09: Open source or secondary information is a distinctive piece of the Knowledge Management mosaic

2007-08:

2007-07:

2007-06: Corporate Applications for Social Networking

2007-05: Knowledge Cafe on Knowledge Management Business Topics

2007-04: Knowledge Harvesting

2007-03: Knowledge Management program at Perkins Eastman

2007-02: Story, Peer-based Learning, Mobile Sales Enablement

2007-01: How Knowledge Management is impacted by YOU, Time magazine’s person of the year

2006-12: KM Chicago Holiday “Meeting”

2006-11: How can corporations combine Talent Management with Knowledge Retention?

2006-10: Meeting at the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference

2006-09: The Knowledge Brain Drain

2006-08:

2006-07:

2006-06: Report from the Front Lines of Knowledge Management Offshoring

2006-05: Panel: Schools which teach knowledge management

2006-04: Personal knowledge management

2006-03: HP Services Consulting & Integration Knowledge Management Program

2006-02: Knowledge Management in the Asia-Pacific region

2006-01: Knowledge Management in Disaster Management

2005-12: Using Text mining and Visualization to Make Sense of Content Chaos & Holiday wine tasting

2005-11: Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System

2005-10: CNA’s Performance Support Tool

2005-09: Knowledge Management at Baker & McKenzie

2005-08: 48 Years of Paper – Changing the Culture of the Allstate Financial Contact Center

2005-07: Plug-n-Play Knowledge Management

2005-06: Intellext’s Watson

2005-05: Tools & Techniques for Knowledge Retention

2005-04: Create your own “best practices capability”

2005-03: Technology trends and their impact on knowledge management

2005-02: Social software – market opportunity, growth, and benefits

2005-01: Knowledge Sharing At Caterpillar

2004-12: KM Chicago Meeting (Summary of the recent 2004 CKO Summit) and Holiday Celebration: Vino and Veritas

2004-11: Externally-focused metadata

2004-10: Blogs in Business – A Discussion with a Panel of Experts

2004-09: How Knowledge Management is driving business improvements at EDS

2004-08: KMPro Summer Social Event

2004-07: Social Networking – A Discussion with a Panel of Experts (Special Topics Series 2 – Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques)

2004-06: Enterprise Content Management – A Case Study: Aon Corporation (Special Topics Series 2 – Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques)

2004-05: Portal & Information Architecture Lessons (Special Topics Series 2 – Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques) (announced was: A Knowledge Management Sales Effectiveness Toolkit (Special Topics Series 2 – Focusing on Customers with Knowledge Management Solutions))

2004-04: Knowledge Work as Craft (Special Topics Series 1 – Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Business Performance)

2004-03: The role of “Best Practices” in Knowledge and Business Process Management (Special Topics Series 1 – Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Business Performance)

2004-02: Taxonomies and Metadata (Special Topics Series 1 – Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Business Performance)

2004-01: Report from the top: Overview of the CKO Summit

2003-12: Knowledge Management in the University: Emerging Technologies and Trends at Northwestern (Special Topics Series 1 – Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Business Performance)

2003-11: What is a Real Time Enterprise?

2003-10: ?

2003-09: A Nuggets-based Methodology for Designing and Managing Knowledge Management Systems

2003-08: Expert Database for sharing R&D core competency information and skill set

2003-07: Knowledge Management at Hewitt Associates: Reflections on the Journey

2003-06: Knowledge Management: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

2003-05: Storytelling in Knowledge Management: The IBM Cynefin Model and Case Studies (IBM, NASA, WorldBank)

2003-04: The Future of Integrated Knowledge Management / Overview of Organizational Network Analysis

2003-03: ?

2003-02: What is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM & PIM)?

2003-01: Total Knowledge Management – The Role of Expertise Management Solutions in a Knowledge Management Infrastructure

2002-12: The Importance of Managed Vocabulary in Knowledge Management and the Practical Application of the Concept in SNOMED

2002-11: Latest Knowledge Management Research / Plum Tree Presentation

2002-10: Featured speaker: Jean Egmon, Northwestern University

2002-09: Knowledge Management Strategies at Accentur

2002-08: (1st meeting) Featured technology – Harvard Business Online (e-Learning & Knowledge Management)
Service-Industry Focused, Knowledge Management Roundtable Series
- Apr 2017: Education Services Roundtable
- Mar 2017: Finance & Banking Services Roundtable
- Feb 2017: Legal Services Roundtable
- Jan 2017: Healthcare Services Roundtable
- Nov 2016: Insurance Services Roundtable
- Oct 2016: Kick-off Meeting

Conferences

Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium (MidwestKM)* ¹⁾

Web Channels

Notes:

1) From 2002 to 2004 KM Chicago was a local chapter of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (KMPro)
2) The Midwest Knowledge Management Symposium is organized by the Midwest Knowledge Management Community, from 2009-2011 togerther with KM Chicago