Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (Melbourne KMLF)

Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaEst. 2000 (1997)550+Leave a comment

The Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (Melbourne KMLF), formerly the Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (founded in Sydney, aka the Victorian KM Forum), is a face-to-face education and networking forum, run by Knowledge Management practitioners for Knowledge Management practitioners. The aim is to set the foundation for a casual network of interested practitioners and scholars to discuss knowledge management and its impact on both business and government organisations.

The Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (Melbourne KMLF) offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

Communities

KMLF Chapter Sydney* (1997-2006(?))
KMLF Chapter Melbourne (Est. 2000(?)-present)

Meetings

In general on the 4. Wednesday each month

List of Meetings

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Dec 2024: KMLF Joint Melbourne/Sydney Christmas Party – Reminisce on the year of AI & recognise the incredible contribution of Arthur Shelley
Nov 2024: TBD
Oct 2024: Reblooming the Knowledge Movement
Sep 2024: Unlocking Success: Metrics and Measurements in Knowledge Management (KM)
Aug 2024: SugarWork’s AI – The leading edge in expertise capture using AI
Jul 2024: Innovative Creativity – Creating with Innovation in Mind
Jun 2024: Risk Management – doing a pre-mortem
May 2024: Introducing ChangeLeader AI KMentoring App
Apr 2024: AI and Knowledge Management (KM) use cases – Four different approaches to AI adaptation (Series on Exploring Generative AI and KM, Part 3/3) (was: ‘Known unknowns’ – Risk and resilience in uncertain times)
Mar 2024: Algorithims of Oppression or Opportunity? (Series on Exploring Generative AI and KM, Part 2/3)
Feb 2024: Generative AI and Knowledge Management (KM) walk into a cafe… (Series on Exploring Generative AI and KM, Part 1/3)
Jan 2024: CANCELLED

Dec 2023: 2023 Reflection Celebration
Nov 2023: Ecosystem Cocreation for Innovation
Oct 2023: A 65000 Year Journey.
Sep 2023: Making the invisible visible; a fun and fast knowledge mapping exercise
Aug 2023: Connecting Communities
Jul 2023: Finding the value in knowledge – The agony and the ecstasy of knowledge audits
Jun 2023: Digital transformation of Knowledge Management
May 2023: Conversations: The tin opener to knowledge
Apr 2023: Team-based holistic Knowledge Management
Mar 2023: The AI Augmentation Design Problem: Using Design Sprints as a Co-Creation Tool
Feb 2023: Radical Knowledge Management; High time we merge organisational Learning & Development (L&D) and Knowledge Management (KM) ?

Dec 2022: COVID, Lockdown & the new Knowledge Workplace (EOY Meeting)
Nov 2022: CANCELLED (due to technical difficulties)
Oct 2022: KMLF planning meeting for the coming year
Sep 2022: Creating in fragments: Substack as a tool for reaching the time poor
Aug 2022: Online Digital Collaboration tools for Knowledge Management
Jul 2022: An open conversation on the use and value of wikis
Jun 2022: From Veterinarian to Foresight Consultant – a Strange Journey
May 2022: All Aboard The Knowledge Caravan: A Series of monthly Knowledge Management e-workshopsby by Information Africa Organization
Apr 2022: K Frameworks – Lessons Management at the Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) Lessons Management team
Mar 2022: How to fundamentally Tackle Culture
Feb 2022: Becoming Adaptable – Cocreating new possibilities as we re-emerge; Conversational Leadership

Dec 2021: CANCELLED!
Nov 2021: The Idea and the Reality: On the Knowledge Management Frontline (recorded)
Oct 2021: The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Lyn (Murnane) – the Knowledge Manager of the COVID-19 Response at the Victorian Department of Health
Sep 2021: Increasing diversity in Knowledge Management: stories from a global community of practice (KM4Dev | recorded)
Aug 2021: Insights for Australian Knowledge Management (KM) from knowledge initiatives in Africa and Europe (K4DP, Knowledge.City | recorded); Complexity, Systems & Organisation Design (Re-SCEDULED from Jul 2021)
Jul 2021: People, Expertise, Wisdom, and Organisation Design (POSTPONED)
Jun 2021: The Door to Knowledge: Opening up with Humility (recorded)
May 2021: Change Management – To Move an Elephant
Apr 2021: Knowledge Management from Scratch at Aurecon
Mar 2021: Hidden in Plain View: Women and Knowledge Management
Feb 2021: Knowledge and Community Management
Jan 2021: No KMLF meeting

Dec 2020: Facilitating Cocreated Projects Worth Doing (regular meeting – POSTPONED to 2021); Announcement of the 2020 AuSKM Award Winners
Nov 2020: Knowledge Management at the Victorian Electoral Commission
Oct 2020: Power of Apps for Knowledge Sharing (was: Facilitating Cocreated Projects Worth Doing – POSTPONED to Dec 2020)
Sep 2020: A New Paradigm for Social Change
Aug 2020: The COVID Conversation: Update on Data Collation to Inform Decision Making on COVID (was: Facilitating Cocreated Projects Worth Doing – POSTPONED to Oct 2020)
Jul 2020: The Datafication of Work: Why Knowledge Management Education is Essential, and Why it Needs to Change (KMLF Education Forum/Panel)
Jun 2020: West Gippsland Libraries Transformational Change Experience
May 2020: Knowledge Management in Cyber & Data Security
Apr 2020: No KMLF meeting
Mar 2020: Decision-Making in Practice (POSTPONED)
Feb 2020: Knowledge Following the Bushfires
Jan 2020: No KMLF meeting

Dec 2019: Pecha Kucha session: What I’ve learnt from KMLF 2019!
Nov 2019: Lean Agile System of Leadership
Oct 2019: Knowledge Management Engagements – hidden biases and the pursuit of truth
Sep 2019: A Panel Discussion about Knowledge Management in the Legal Practice
Aug 2019: Managing Knowledge in the Age of Digitalisation
Jul 2019: How to influence leaders and decision makers – particularly in government
Jun 2019: Unravelling the Strings (3/19 ‘Who’s Pulling the Strings?’ follow-up)
May 2019: Special Event – Euan Semple on The Ideology of Algorithms
Apr 2019: No meeting (due to clash with Easter and Anzac Day)
Apr 2019: Who’s Pulling the Strings?
Feb 2019: Exploring Good Management
Jan 2019: An interview with Bruce Boyes, editor of the award winning RealKM Magazine (via Skype)

2018-12: 2019 Planning Meeting (CANCELLED! The organising committee will be holding a planning meeting to prepare for 2019)
2018-11: ausKM informal event (side event at the AuSKM Conference, Nov 13-14)
2018-10: “Innovate or die, Grasshopper” – Knowledge Management lessons from the Shaw Brothers Studio
2018-09: The Foundations To Thrive In A Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous World
2018-08: Diving For Pearls: Leadership And Wisdom
2018-07: Embedding Knowledge in Business Systems
2018-06: Building an International Knowledge Professional Society – Part 2
2018-05: Design Thinking and the value it brings to a process
2018-04: Translating knowledge to practical and useable insight
2018-03: Building a connected Knowledge Profession
2018-02: Knowledge Management in Operations: Knowledge Centred Service in the Support context

2017-12: End-of-Year Celebration “Bring a Friend, Share Some Stories” & The Future of Knowledge
2017-11: Agile Knowledge Co-creation: An Agile Knowledge Management experience (in conjunction with the KMELB 2017)
2017-10: Harnessing tribalism to achieve organisational learning
2017-09: Case Study: Creating a culture of continuous improvement; KMLF Coordinators Catchup
2017-08: Cynefin and Complexity
2017-07: Conversations of Intrigue
2017-06: What to do when knowledge walks out the door?
2017-05: KNOWledge SUCCESSion: Sustained Capability Growth Through Strategic Projects
2017-04: Knowledge Management in a science based organisation: the Australian Dairy Industry
2017-03: CANCELED
2017-02: Creative Melbourne: insights and outcomes of the Creative Melbourne conference [#Cre8Melb]
2017-01: Neurodiversity – The Core of Creativity

2016-12: KMLF 2016 Review and Planning for 2017
2016-11: Not Knowing – skills for leading in a complex and uncertain world; Special “Knowledge Management Body of Knowledge” Meeting (part of AuSKM Knovember)
2016-10: Shawn Callahan – Data storytelling
2016-09: Resetting the business paradigm, a biased view of crowdsourcing
2016-08: Update on IBM’s Watson
2016-07: Leadership and Followship for Flat, Networked Organisations
2016-06: Managing knowledge: developing an organisational learning strategy
2016-05: Panel ‘The Human Aspects of Knowledge Cities’ @ Melbourne Knowledge Week; Ladders & Bananas – a survival kit for professionals in change
2016-04: Knowledge Management challenges facing international organisations
2016-03: Facilitating a Culture of Appreciation
2016-02: The Challenge of Identifying Risks
2016-01: no meeting

2015-12: KMLF end of year review
2015-11: Liberating Structures: Rethinking how we facilitate work, learning and knowledge sharing; A Knowledge Management Journey: Using champions to drive innovation
2015-10: Leveraging Knowledge Management for social benefit
2015-09: Re-imaging the workplace
2015-08: Collaboration as Strategy: The impact of Relational Capital
2015-07: Ontology and knowledge representation in commercial applications
2015-06: How to connect and influence people – presentation insights
2015-05: KNOWledge SUCCESSion through creative visualisation
2015-04: Mentoring as a knowledge sharing activity – a discussion
2015-03: Resolving Issues and Learning Lessons; Navigating the Knowledge Landscape of a Multinational
2015-02: Doing More with Less
2015-01: Exploring what we want to share in 2015

2014-12: Guest Panel: Google and the future of Enterprise search
2014-11: Socially Intelligent Computing and online group dynamics
2014-10: When analyse-plan-implement isn’t enough!
2014-09: Sustainable Approaches to Public Knowledge – Informatics meets Archives
2014-08: Watson meets Knowledge Management … elementary Malcolm Holden IBM
2014-07: Visual Maps for Capability and connections
2014-06: Giving effective workplace feedback
2014-05: Knowledge Sharing & Workplace Innovation in a transnational context
2014-04: LEAN & knowledge management
2014-03: Protecting organisational competitive advantage
2014-02: Knowledge Management techniques session
2014-01: Impact challenges through iterative virtual conversations

2013-12: Spirits of Past, Present & Future (Reflections & Planning for Knowledge ManagementLF)
2013-11: Lessons Learned as a valued ‘living’ project activity
2013-10: Knowledge sharing strategy to embed sustainability in all that we do
2013-09: Community Management & Knowledge Management with John Tropea; Explore myths of sport and society with Don Miller
2013-08: Can Technical Writers add value in the Knowledge Management arena?
2013-07: Developing a biological understanding of organizational knowledge
2013-06: Mobility in the Workplace
2013-05: The Social Entprise & Enteprise Community Management
2013-04: Interactive learning spaces for knowledge creation and transfer
2013-03: Going to where the people are: An open discussion of the US eXtension experience
2013-02: A Perfect Storm: Games, Collaboration and Knowledge Management
2013-01: Complexity & Go – with Stuart French

2012-12: Nigel Paine: Links between innovation, knowledge sharing & corporate learning?
2012-11: Euan Semple: The social web at work
2012-10: Conflict Is Not Always A Bikie Gang!!!!
2012-09: Story Share: On making small knowledge-related changes; Graham Durant-Law: Numbers, Pitfalls & Solutions in Social Network Analysis; Timespiration with Cyriel Kortleven
2012-08: Mobilising knowledge for the next wave of sustainability
2012-07: Mobilising knowledge for the next wave of sustainability – Session 1/2
2012-06: Addressing a personal knowledge management dilemma
2012-05: Knowledge Peer Support Session
2012-04: Cai Kjaer: The Mystery Ingredient in Organisational Performance
2012-03: Break, Burn or Ban the Box: Cyriel Kortleven
2012-02: My favourite image interactive; The story of a new way using old knowledge to improve business performance

2011-12: Knowledge ManagementLF Annual review: Knowledge ManagementLF Performance and Future directions
2011-11: Interactive Topic with :Nancy White”Are you a Social Artist?
2011-10: Lessons – making sense of corporate knowledge
2011-09: Behavioural DNA of collaboration
2011-08: Preventing Knowledge Collapse
2011-07: What can we do about this “Sustainability Thing”?
2011-06: Talent and Knowledge Management: Twins or Rivals?; How to Manage Knowledge You Don’t Want – Emotion in the Workplace; Diversity in Action Workshop (Knowledge ManagementLF-CPX-HubMelbourne) Facilitated by Duncan Smith
2011-05: Complexity & Go – Go Training session; Different aspects of Knowledge Management
2011-04: From physical to virtual and chaos to order
2011-03: Living in a busy world – Ed Greenaway
2011-02: Solutions-Focused Approach to Change
2011-01: Ignite Knowledge Management in 2011 (Igniting an evening of knowledge sharing w/ Arthur Shelley, Knowledge Sharing – much used but poorly defined and understood w/ Peter Chomley, Our reality is also our virtual experience w/ Helen Mitchell, The Art of Conversation w/ Keith De La Rue)

2010-12: Reflecting on a big year
2010-11: Design thinking and knowledge management – brothers from different mothers
2010-10: Knowledge Strategy – where do we start?; Gurteen Knowledge Cafe ” Taking action on Sustainability”
2010-09: Knowledge Management as an interventionist and cross paradigmatic discipline
2010-08: Mission Critical Knowledge Management
2010-07: Stan Garfield, Communities Manifesto Discussion; The Corporation, Social Media & Change – ParkYoung and Jennifer Frahm; Why should Business meet Social?; Strategic Advantage in the Post-Industrial Age
2010-06: The Idea Monopoly?
2010-05: Performance Enhancing + Learning + Knowledge = ?
2010-04: Welcome to the Jungle; Get a creative boost
2010-03: Discuss our favourite Social Tools & Requirements; Cyriel Kortleven – Give yourself a creative boost
2010-02: Knowledge Risk and Retention – beyond the usual suspects; User Adoption Strategies for Collaboration Technologies
2010-01: Complexity & the game of Go

2009-12: December reflections: The changing face of Knowledge Management
2009-11: Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities
2009-10: COP’s A Personal Journey
2009-09: Knowledge Café “The emergence of Twitter as a powerful tool for conversation and networking”
2009-08: Adaptive leadership in turbulent times (KMRT/VPSCIN); Knowledge Integration vs Corporate Disintegration in the Absence of Knowledge Management
2009-07: Demystifying Complex Adaptive Systems
2009-06: Knowledge Degradation
2009-05: Matching Collaboration Tools and Culture
2009-04: Knowledge of Wine Making: COP’s in the wine industry
2009-03: Successful Virtual Networks at CPA: Innovative team interactions (Second Life)
2009-02: Harnessing the collaborative power of a wiki
2009-01: Conversations as a Knowledge share tool

2008-12: no session
2008-11: Vocal Intelligence
2008-10: Knowledge Café with David Gurteen “What are the barriers to knowledge sharing and how do you overcome them?”
2008-09: no session
2008-08: Social Software within the Firewall
2008-07: Effective Online Collaboration
2008-06: Building a Collaborative Workplace
2008-01 to 05: no session

2007-05 to 12: no session
2007-04: Organizational Zoo with Arthur Shelley
2007-03: no session
2007-02: no session
2007-01: Knowledge Services are Coming!

2006-12: no session
2006-11: Knowledge, Networks and Social Media
2006-10: no session
2006-09: Change Management – How to Include Everyone in the Change Process
2006-08: Isolating the HR Factors that Drive Performance
2006-07: What’s this stuff called Knowledge?
2006-06: Social Media Inside the Firewall
2006-05: Making SNA more social
2006-04: Learning to Fly with co-author Geoff Parcell
2006-03: A Narrative Approach to Change Management
2006-02: Australian Knowledge Management Standard discussion workshop

2005-10: A Little Trust Goes Along Way to Embedding Knowledge
2005-06: The Power of Fusion: How narrative created the foundation for a merger and an industry; Communities of Practice seminar by Dr Etienne Wenger
2005-02: The Future of Knowledge Management – Standards and context

Quarterly meetings

2004-11 (Sydney): eLearning – It’s just animated textbooks, innit? (with NSW KM Forum)
2004-10: Developing a Whole-of-Organisation Approach to Knowledge Management
2004-08: Electronic Data Management Systems: the heart of Knowledge Management
2004-05: The Links Between Knowledge Management and Innovation
2004-02: Knowledge is Power: Power – we DO NOT talk about it!!

Quarterly meetings

2003-11: Exploring Knowledge Management Case Studies
2003-09: Communities of Practice
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2000-12 (Sydney): Conversing Cafe: What is the significance to you for the well known aphorisms: (1) If Hewlett Packard knew what Hewlett Packard knows we would be three times more productive, (2) Eighty per cent of new product development stems from customer perception of problems
2000-10 (Sydney): Tracking the evolution of tools and portals: From research to applications in Knowledge Management
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2000-04 (Sydney): Measuring & Reporting Intellectual Capital & Knowledge: A Summary of Experiences, Issues from the OECD Technical Symposium
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