Giving feedback and context based on the experiences and feedback from the 2015 and 2016 Southern African Knowledge Management Summit at the launch event for the South African KM Society. November 2016,
6. Surrounded by KM practitioners in the same struggle towards
recognition makes the load lighter and gives hope towards the
future!
KM needs a facelift… for ourselves and/or other stakeholders?
We’re going the same route as dinosaurs
Just like with innovation, you need to be patient with KM.
Passion and perseverance is key!!! People who succeed in KM is
creative and curious
KM needs to solve real world problems
Everyone has an opinion but no one has stories of real
interventions. I can understand why KM struggles to be
strategic.
Same old same old. Same old conversation that's been had in
KM since the early 2000's ... When will we start thinking
differently?
2015
7.
8. 2016
What do you think should be the purpose of
Knowledge Management practitioners community in
the next year?
• To unearth TRUE best practices to rapidly accelerate the
advancement of the field.
• Promote better understanding in companies of the advantages of KM
• Troubleshooting & peer support
• KM Practitioners group to represent the discipline, learn from each
other and find innovation & experts.
• Make the concept of KM an automatic everyday occurrence.
9. 0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
What should be the
purpose for the KM
Community in the next
year?
What was it like for
you: the gift to me?
The gift to the KM
Community
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: ROOTS
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: LEAVES
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: FRUITS
(commitment to action
next day)
End of Summit
feedback: Take home
messages
Messages to the KM
Community
2016 SAKMS - Distribution of messages
Promote better understanding of the advantages of KM. Shits in KM and KM professional
Make the concept of KM an automatic everyday occurrence. Unearth TRUE best practices to rapidly accelerate the advancement of the field.
Troubleshooting & peer support. KM Practitioners Group
Pattern:
Amplification for
Community, connected to
Trouble shooting & Support.
10. Pattern:
Increase of the will to
Change, even though it was
not one of the Top 5
purposes selected for the
Community.
Strategic intent shifted from
‘Best Practice’ to
‘Change/Evolve/Growth/
Innovation/Success’
Signal that there could be a
sense developing that the
solution for ‘Value
challenge’ will result from
change in community.
Ownership, we need to be
the change.
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
What should be the
purpose for the KM
Community in the next
year?
What was it like for
you: the gift to me?
The gift to the KM
Community
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: ROOTS
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: LEAVES
Harvest from the Olive
Tree: FRUITS
(commitment to action
next day)
End of Summit
feedback: Take home
messages
Messages to the KM
Community
2016 SAKMS - Distribution of messages
Promote better understanding of the advantages of KM. Shits in KM and KM professional
Make the concept of KM an automatic everyday occurrence. Unearth TRUE best practices to rapidly accelerate the advancement of the field.
Troubleshooting & peer support. KM Practitioners Group
11.
12.
13. KM Study Meeting, 8 July 2016 @ NRF, Pretoria. Presenter: Refiloe Mabaso
18. Related readings
• Janse Van Vuuren, P & Bester, E. 2016. Why we
used SNE and what it did and did not deliver.
[Online].
• Available at: http://sakmsummit.net/sne-at-
2016sakms/ [Last accessed: 13 September 2016]
• Janse Van Vuuren, P & Bester, E. 2016. Applied
theatre and knowledge management:
the role of strategic narrative embodiment in
shifting a professional group from
potential community to coalescence.
• Available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/elmi/applied-theatre-
and-knowledge-management-the-role-of-strategic-
narrative-embodiment-in-shifting-a-professional-
group-from-potential-community-to-coalescence
Notas del editor
Goals:
• Illustrates the art of creative leadership.• Practices giving and taking control.• Practices awareness and focus.• Practices collaboration.
Overview:
In pairs participants mirror each other’s movement. First only one player leads while the other follows. In the last round they give and take control.
Time: 15 min
Number of participants: 2 – thousands (You’ll just need a stage and a sound system so that everyone can hear and see you)
Game flow:
Ask everyone to pair up with another person and stand facing each other. Each pair should decide who will be A and who will be B. Tell them that A is a person looking into a mirror and B is the mirror. B should therefore copy A’s exact movement. After a few minutes tell them to switch. A is therefore now the mirror and B the person looking into the mirror. After B has had a chance to lead for a few minutes, tell them that they have to now both lead and follow at the same time. They are therefore both looking into the mirror and being the mirror simultaneously. Now it gets really interesting. For it to work both need to take the lead and give up the lead, give and taking control the whole time. If the participants trust each other and are completely present in the moment they will go into a state of flow in which control will dissolve.
Tips:
The idea is not that the participants should try and outwit each other by making sudden movements. The idea is that they work together and move like they are one so that an observer wouldn’t be able to see who is leading and who is following.
It works best if the participants make smooth movements, not quick jerky movements.
Request that participants do the exercise in complete silence.
Debrief questions:
• What was interesting about the exercise?• What was easier, leading, following or doing both?• Which one did you enjoy most?• Which one was the most creative?• How does this apply to leadership?
MAKE THE OTHER PERSON LOOK GOOD. CHALLENGE YOURSELF AS WELL.
Standards
Southern African Knowledge Management Summit
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