In this Innoversity Network
meeting members of Innoversity Network got to meet Knowledge Management Expert Dr. Madanmohan Rao,
who is the editor of a new Knowledge Management series. We
were app. 35 members present for the event, which was quite
impressive, taking into account that the event was announced
less than a week in advance. The meeting was hosted at ARENA
at Nørrebrogade 14B, which is now the Copenhagen Innoversity
Office . At the
meeting Madan introduced us to the learnings from his book about Knowledge
Management practices in 15 IT companies from the US, Europe and Asia. The
discussion also presented what Madan calls the "8 Cs" of KM:
connectivity, content, community, culture, capacity,
cooperation, commerce and capital. You can learn more about
Madan here, and if you are interested
in seeing the whole presentation, you can find the PowerPoint
Madan used for his presentation here. After
the presentation and some questions we had a short sandwich
break. Following the break, Thomas Mathiasen assisted Madan
& Susanne in splitting people into diverse groups - for
group discussions to take place. Every
group was then asked to present the rest of us with the
primary challenges - as they saw them - in relation to
innovation and Knowledge Management. The result of these
discussions were quite interesting, as a range of different
challenges popped up:
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Trust
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Cultural differences
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Information overload (complexity)
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Equality (how to
overcome negative social identities)
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Structures (availability
+ access)
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Motivation (incentive
structures)
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To create a gypsy
culture
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Support creative
stupidity
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Demolition of walls
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Downscaling
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Managerial perception
vs. innovators
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How to apply to
non-profit institutions
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