Sorry. The last one should have said CKIM in June.

Best,


Joe
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From: Joe Firestone <eisai@...>
> Dear KMCI Virtual Chapter Members,
>
> The next Face-to-face CKIM workshop will be held in Washington DC from
> June 9 - 13, 2008. Here is a lengthy description of what it has to
> offer. You may have seen the content before if you've been a member of
> this list for some time. But if you need to review detail because you're
> thinking of taking a great and comprehensive KM class, then this post is
> for you.
>
> Knowledge Management is now full of training classes and full of
> Certificates and Certifications. There's nothing wrong with many of
> those and your organization may well find them of value. But, in KM,the
> truth is that there is no industry-wide agreement on basics that all
> Knowledge Managers should know. There's no agreement on key concepts,
> important models, processes, techniques, or software tools. And, on top
> of that, everything is in constant ferment and changing rapidly. In such
> a field, Certification is not as important as education, teaching a
> comprehensive approach and a variety of other
> materials and tools that can serve as a foundation for the continuous
> learning that is the reality for any KM practitioner.
>
> KMCI's CKIM workshop offers such an education in one week of intensive,
> comprehensive KM education. Other alternatives, again, are available
> besides ours, and we're sure that many others offer quality in various
> respects, but we believe that our alternative, in addition to all of the
> features described below has the inestimable advantage that it does not
> 'wag the dog' of Knowledge Management by primarily providing instruction
> in the use of one of its tools or
> techniques; but instead teaches you a comprehensive approach to doing KM
> including concepts and theory, normative goals and objectives, and also
> about a 'how to do it' methodology, including techniques for
> intervening, impact evaluation and assessment, and core software tools
> for applying the methodology.
>
> Of course, there's a place in Knowledge Management for training in how
> to implement CoPs, or Social Network Analysis, or Value Network
> Analysis, or storytelling and narrative, or Knowledge Cafes, or other
> important techniques. But workshops on those topics don't educate you in
> how to do KM, but only in one of the initiatives you might use as part
> of a KM intervention. You will need training in such things. But, even
> more, you need training in the context of KM interventions within which
> these techniques find their place. Otherwise you'll just be 'wagging the
> dog' and not doing real KM.
>
> It's in educating you about that context that our workshop excels, and,
> we believe, excels above all others presently available, But judge for
> yourself, read through the description of a previous Workshop I've
> appended below and then look at the further information available on our
> web site. Here's the description.
>
> "The best value //in KM Teaching Conferences is KMCI's next
> CKIM/K-STREAM(tm) Workshop. It will be held in the Washington, DC Metro
> area from June 9 -13, 2008 at The Residence Inn at 550 Army Navy Drive,
> Arlington, VA 22201.
>
> CKIM, our introduction to Knowledge and Innovation Management
> Certificate Class, teaches KMCI's comprehensive KM strategy and
> implementation methodology (K-STREAM). In addition to covering the
> methodology itself, we present a series of core KM tool types used in
> support of it, and also have guest speakers representing vendor
> companies come in to make related presentations about their specific tools.
>
> During the June Workshop, we expect to have presentations on
> ExpertChoice (a vendor of DSS software providing a wide range of
> applications to K-STREAM), Pontifex (a system dynamics consultancy
> presenting on iThink), Hyperwave (a vendor of portal, content
> management, collaboration/ web conferencing, and e-learning software),
> and Precipia Inc. (an enterprise knowledge processing system vendor
> providing support for knowledge making and discovery, knowledge claim
> tracking, and analysis of knowledge claim dynamics) illustrating either
> KM core or intervention tools and providing a great IT tool context for
> our presentations, round table discussions, hands-on exercises, and case
> studies.
>
> CKIM spends about one day on theory including complexity and
> organizational learning approaches to KM, a second day on important case
> studies relating KM to Business Processes and outcomes, and on KM
> Strategy, and three days on hands-on, in-depth coverage of our K-STREAM
> methodology and associated tools, including case studies and exercises.
> Five days in total, all for only $2695, the highest-value face-to-face
> program available anywhere, since not only will we be covering
> contemporary KM theory, but attendees will also be provided with
> training in a comprehensive KM methodology and tool-set.
>
> You now have the option of completing CKIM in two steps. You can enroll
> for the first two days on theory and strategy, and can come back another
> time for the last three days on K-STREAM methodology. We've decided to
> make this change because many people interested in CKIM find it
> difficult to free up five consecutive days for the class, but may be
> able to find two days here and three days there.
>
> If you enroll for the two-step program, we'll provide an interim CKIM
> Certificate covering KM Strategy, and then give you the CKIM Certificate
> when you complete the last three days. Fees for the first two days of
> CKIM on KM Strategy are $1390, and the final three days on K-STREAM
> methodology will cost $1785. So there's a substantial economic advantage
> in completing the 5-day program in a single week, and this reflects the
> lower risks and administrative costs we experience if you take both
> parts of the program consecutively.
>
> For prior attendees of earlier versions of our CKIM program, given
> before 2005, we are also offering a shortened attendance option, whereby
> previous students can attend the new CKIM program at a reduced cost in
> order to learn the new K-STREAM methodology, as well as our new
> incremental KM strategy. For students who choose this option, attendance
> is only required for the last 3-and-a-half days of the class and the fee
> is $1845. In addition, all such prior students will receive K-STREAM
> Certificates.
>
> Main topics covered in CKIM include: The New KM Reference Model,
> Organizational Learning, Problem Solving, and Action, Complex Adaptive
> Systems, What is Knowledge? The Knowledge Life Cycle, A Framework for
> KM, The Partners' Health Care Case Study, KM and Business Strategy, The
> Policy Synchronization Method, The Open Enterprise, Communities of
> Practice vs. Communities of Inquiry, KM Methodology: Scope and
> Requirements, KM Methodology: The State of the Art and K-STREAM,
> K-STREAM: Introduction and Overview of Phases, K-STREAM Phase 1:
> Strategy and Assessment Phase, The Open Enterprise Template, Formulating
> Alternative Strategies/Interven tions, Impact Models, Using Expert
> Choice: A Core Tool with Multiple Roles (Guest Speaker), ROI and
> Benefits, Portal/Content Management/Collaboration/elearning Software
> (Guest Speaker), Performing a Knowledge Processing Gap Analysis, Impact
> Modeling with /iThink /(Guest Speaker), Business Performance Modeling
> and Measurement Schemes (e.g. Balanced
> Scorecards), K-STREAM Phase 2: The Decision Phase, Performing The
> Decision Phase, Phase 3: The Construction Phase, Performing The
> Construction Phase, Phase 4: The Transition Phase, Knowledge Processing
> and Knowledge Claim Tracking with Precipia's DIANE(tm) (Guest Speaker),
> Phase 5: The
> Maintenance Phase, Knowledge Claim Dynamics as a Basis for Impact
> Analysis, Wrap-Up: What Have We Covered? Wrap-Up: Feedback.
>
> The Workshop also includes plenty of group collaborative work in the
> form of 7 roundtable discussions and 4 hands-on exercises, including
> three directed toward practicing the phases of the methodology in the
> context of a case study called Green Mountain Manufacturing.
>
> This list of topics shows the progression of the CKIM workshop from KM
> Theory to an important case study to the development of a comprehensive
> KM strategy to the areas of methodology, measurement and metrics,
> techniques, and tools. What it doesn't reflect however, is the
> integration of topics through consistent application of the conceptual
> foundation we provide in the first day. From the theoretical development
> through the case study and strategy sections through the methodology
> including its emphasis on metrics, techniques, and tools through the
> delivery of the software templates for developing KM, knowledge
> processing, business processing, and outcome metrics on the final day,
> to the concluding wrap-up, this Workshop is about developing and
> applying in practice the KMCI three-tier KM reference model we've
> developed since 1998.
>
> Everything in this workshop is connected to everything else. Nothing is
> isolated from the mosaic we craft in the Workshop. Agree with us or not,
> this is a coherent view of Knowledge Management, what it is, and how to
> apply it. It is a view that addresses the lack of consensus, some would
> say even chaos, in KM, and offers an answer to these conditions in the
> form of a comprehensive map of our discipline and a set of guidelines
> for playing a role in it.
>
> Tangible takeaways from the CKIM workshop are the most extensive offered
> for a workshop of this type. They include:
>
> 1. A set of extensive class notes in the form of Powerpoint Slides
>
> 2. Mark McElroy's book: The New Knowledge Management
>
> 3. Joe Firestone's book: Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge
> Management
>
> 4. Firestone and McElroy's book: Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management
>
> 5. A pre-publication copy of Joe Firestone's new book applying KM to
> reducing risk called Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas
>
> 6. Davenport and Glaser's Harvard Business Review article on the
> Partners HealthCare Case
>
> 7. Firestone and McElroy's The Learning Organization Journal article on
> "Doing Knowledge Management", also featuring the Partners HealthCare
> Case. This article received the 2006 outstanding article award for the
> Emerald Journal, The Learning Organization
>
> 8. The Green Mountain Manufacturing KM case and hands-on exercises.
>
> 9. The KMCI K-STREAM^(TM) Methodology Baseline (.pdf file listing the
> steps in K-STREAM^(TM) )
>
> 10. An ExpertChoice Trial License (see www.expertchoice.com)
>
> 11. The Business Process Performance Template (a KMCI Model applying
> ExpertChoice) and a no-cost license to use it in perpetuity.
>
> 12. The Open Enterprise Ontology template (a KMCI Model applying
> ExpertChoice) and a no-cost license to use it in perpetuity.
>
> 13. "The Sustainability Code:" A policy model for achieving sustainable
> innovation in organizations
>
> 14. An offer for a no-cost, perpetual license to use the patent-pending
> Policy Synchronization Method (PSM) for achieving sustainable innovation.
>
> 15. A CKIM(TM) Certificate of completion.
>
> Background information is plentiful at: http://www.kmci.org
> <http://www.kmci.org> and related urls.
>
> Here is a sample syllabus for a previous CKIM, which is updated for
> every workshop.
>
> http://www.kmci.org/media/CKIMSyllabussummer2005.pdf
> <http://www.kmci.org/media/CKIMSyllabussummer2005.pdf>
>
> Please give it a look, and let us know if you have any questions about
> it or would like to attend an upcoming class. We think you'll agree
> that this is the most comprehensive, rigorous, pedagogically diverse,
> and novel KM workshop in the marketplace.
>
> Again, our next class is June 9 - 13, 2008 in the Washington, DC metro area.
>
> You'll find registration information at:
>
> http://www.kmci.org/datesandlocation.html
> <http://www.kmci.org/datesandlocation.html>
>
> Why not join your other colleagues in learning a new and comprehensive
> "bottom-up" KM Strategy that takes advantage of the self-organizing
> nature of human systems as well as K-STREAM, a new KM methodology for
> serious practitioners?
>
> Whether you're a novice looking for your first introductory workshop, or
> an expert, who's now looking around for a new take on KM, you'll benefit
> from participating in the most challenging five-day Certificate Workshop
> in KM today. Please give me a call at the number below if you'd like to
> talk about it!
>
> Hope to see you there.
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
> Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.
> Managing Director
> Knowledge Management Consortium International and CKIM Program
> www.kmci.org
>
> Managing Director
> The Adaptive Metrics Center and
> Center for The Open Enterprise, LLC
> www.adaptivemetricscenter.com
>
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