reporting back on the day one speaker session: Christine presents a summary along with Daan
Big themes
- The hidden messiness of organisations
- challenges of surfacing the knowledge that matters within the messiness (and who judges what matters(
- the implications of these challenges for strategy processes and operations
- The new ways of leading/organising/managing this mess.
Questions arising
- How to manage the complex system of himan interaction (me)
- How to uncover hidden patterns in this mess (Daniel)
- What is the role of leadership in this mess (Karl-Erik
- How to transfer knowledge and stories from one team to antoehr in this mess (Verna)
- How to convince senion managment of this mess of the need for a proper knowledge based stragey (Richard/Victor)
- How to use the social structures in this mess for the benefit of the company
- How to ope up conversations in this mess? (David)
- How an messy organisations learn in a crisis *Elena)
- How to appreciate and transfer the strengths of this mess (Geoff)
- How to prevent people becoming toxic (intoxicated( in the mess? (Steve)
Now Daan is summarising metaphors of knowledge
- as land (aboriginal)
- as labour (put knowledge to work)
- as intuition
- as commodity (knowledge brokers)
- as stuff (distributed cognition)
- as water (knowledge flows)
- as capital (intellectual capital)
- as seeing/knowledge as light (light bulb)
Now moving people into groups to think about what next. I think speakers should stay out of this so this is me signing out. Now to think about the bus to Reading, a train and a lift and home. Interesting event, great location, good people.
Comments (1)
Your contribution certainly fit the title of the programme. Provocation delivered in the inimitable Snowden style, and definitely the future today.
Enjoy the champers!
Posted by Jane McKenzie | February 25, 2010 10:01 PM
Posted on February 25, 2010 22:01