Leading companies are creating and deploying an innovation capability to outperform industry rivals. Through case examples of leading companies such as Whirlpool, Best Buy, and W.R. Gore, this session illustrates how innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage, focusing on how to build organizational capability in innovation and create an environment of entrepreneurism. You will learn how to identify enablers and obstacles to effective innovation in your organization and how to use a systemic approach to dramatically improve your organization’s innovation capability. Learn how to help your organization embrace open innovation, apply a disciplined approach to in-market experimentation, and manage a continuous pipeline of new growth platforms. Take away an action checklist that identifies and addresses the most critical steps for executing successful strategies involving anytime, anyplace collaboration among multiple parties throughout the world. Innovate at scale.

Implementing KM into organizations has been going on for years. But, once your KM program is established, how do you take it to the next level? This session explores the synergies between knowledge sharing, learning and innovation and the benefits of incorporating them into everyday work processes. A closer look reveals that many KM projects are closely related to the learning functions, and vice versa. The benefits are numerous once the relationship is identified and efforts are initiated to integrate these functions as much as possible. Learn how the Federal Reserve Bank is using this new integrated approach to increase knowledge sharing, accelerate the learning curve, and spark innovation through new ideas and projects. Listen to the stories on experiences, lessons learned and challenges of this unique approach.

Integration capabilities are critical with new acquisitions but are just as important when any organizational change is undertaken. These capabilities required for successful integration are also required to grow the organization organically. Our popular and experienced speaker shares a framework for your integration playbook, case studies, insights, and tips for ensuring your organization is equipped as well as it should with knowledge sharing, strategy making and communication.

Leading companies are creating and deploying an innovation capability to outperform industry rivals. Through case examples of leading companies such as Whirlpool, Best Buy, and W.R. Gore, this session illustrates how innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage, focusing on how to build organizational capability in innovation and create an environment of entrepreneurism. You will learn how to identify enablers and obstacles to effective innovation in your organization and how to use a systemic approach to dramatically improve your organization’s innovation capability. Learn how to help your organization embrace open innovation, apply a disciplined approach to in-market experimentation, and manage a continuous pipeline of new growth platforms. Take away an action checklist that identifies and addresses the most critical steps for executing successful strategies involving anytime, anyplace collaboration among multiple parties throughout the world. Innovate at scale.

KMWorld columnist and independent consultant, Stephen Arnold, discusses Google's tools for extending and building on the Google infrastructure. Google's approach offers developers considerable freedom; however, Google's technical approach imposes some constraints. Come hear from an expert about Google Gadgets, Gears, and Glue, as well as some upsides and downsides in an expanding
market.

This case study illustrates how Capgemini - global IT service provider with more than 80000 employees in 30 countries - is going from a legacy, document based KM system to a much more interactive and people oriented system. After an indepth analysis of end-user needs, a full open source solution is being implemented, taking advantage of Web 2.0 concepts. This new KM environment is a radical departure from the legacy KM system, focusing more on connecting people together to share knowledge rather than collecting documents, although the platform offers means of storing and retrieving documents. The new environment relies on a decentralised, adaptive model, which allows for distribution of the management and control activities to individuals, thus avoiding the need for a heavy central KM function. Capgemini is now confident that barriers to knowledge sharing have been removed and that people can get involved without significant training.

Leading companies are creating and deploying an innovation capability to outperform industry rivals. Through case examples of leading companies such as Whirlpool, Best Buy, and W.R. Gore, this session illustrates how innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage, focusing on how to build organizational capability in innovation and create an environment of entrepreneurism. You will learn how to identify enablers and obstacles to effective innovation in your organization and how to use a systemic approach to dramatically improve your organization’s innovation capability. Learn how to help your organization embrace open innovation, apply a disciplined approach to in-market experimentation, and manage a continuous pipeline of new growth platforms. Take away an action checklist that identifies and addresses the most critical steps for executing successful strategies involving anytime, anyplace collaboration among multiple parties throughout the world. Innovate at scale.

Our speaker looks at the networked enterprise to drive and ensure business value by linking to the hearts and minds of knowledge workers. Since KM 2.0 boils down to networking, he discusses finding people across the hierarchy, leveraging relationships and building trust, and social computing (shared searches, RSS, wikis, blogs). He illustrates how to align the tools and practices by using many examples.

New technologies and traditional organizations are finding many challenges in creating an effective workplace and workspace. Boring shares the experiences and learning of introducing 21st century technology to a solidly conventional campus that has multiple complicating cultural layers in its organizational structure: military (all branches of the service), academic, multinational, generational, political, and more. Chuan discusses the KM initiative at Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), which has evolved and developed an integrated workplace for efficient information management; effective collaboration; and an expanded network for connecting, learning and sharing. Both speakers touch on the impact of their organization’s corporate culture, communication strategies, technology adoption curves, business processes, and the tech transformation.

Leading companies are creating and deploying an innovation capability to outperform industry rivals. Through case examples of leading companies such as Whirlpool, Best Buy, and W.R. Gore, this session illustrates how innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage, focusing on how to build organizational capability in innovation and create an environment of entrepreneurism. You will learn how to identify enablers and obstacles to effective innovation in your organization and how to use a systemic approach to dramatically improve your organization’s innovation capability. Learn how to help your organization embrace open innovation, apply a disciplined approach to in-market experimentation, and manage a continuous pipeline of new growth platforms. Take away an action checklist that identifies and addresses the most critical steps for executing successful strategies involving anytime, anyplace collaboration among multiple parties throughout the world. Innovate at scale.

Collaboration tools are spreading like wildfire within organizations, driven in part by a real need for better collaboration capabilities. The challenge? Left unmanaged, the spread of collaboration tools is anti-knowledge sharing. As the number of separate, uncoordinated spaces increases, so does the fragmentation of information.  Collaboration tools have potential to compete with existing platforms, such as the intranet and document management systems. This talk provides a simple model that fits collaboration into the broader information and knowledge environment within organizations. Practical suggestions are given on how to make collaboration work, while avoiding common pitfalls.

Intranets are the back end of many successful companies all over the world. As social networks become more and more important, they target almost any user and company using the web. Our panel of vendors shares what they have learned from working in hundreds of different workplaces and provides tips, techniques, and insights for integrating social networks, wikis and blogs with existing company intranets and evolving seamless strategies for communication and marketing relations.

This session is a practical guide for creating and sustaining networks at work and around the world.  It is filled with tips, techniques and tales of successful implementations.

Learn what taxonomy tools are out there, how they function, how they integrate with search and content management systems and the ways that a tool can help improve the quality of the taxonomy while demonstrating a solid return on investment.