We held a
Knowledge Cafe recently in Basel to discuss Knowledge and Leadership. The
discussions were good and based on our notes I am currently preparing what I
think is a nice co-created article. Below is a short summary and some photos from
the proceedings. If interested in this
topic and related activities, I welcome your comments or please contact me at
barry.hardy (-at-) douglasconnect.com.
Barry Hardy
Summary based on
discussions at a Knowledge Café held
in Basel,
Switzerland, 25 April 2007 by
Shadab Lari, Joel Brun, Markus Hainzl, Hasan Al-Matrouk,
Abdulaziz Addawesh, Adnan Sharif, Gladys Range, Nicolette
Liller, Bernhard te Woerd, Peter Ngunyi,
Vera Olang, Pierre Neveux, Robin Micklewright, Douglas Weidner, Nicki Douglas,
Barry Hardy, Heike Gutmann, Juergen Drewe, Harald Mauser, Markus Hegi, Eunika
Mercier-Laurent, Monika Hochstrasser, Annette Höglund, Tobe Freeman, Chris
Gopsill, Chris Pallaris, Beat Knechtli, Pavel Kraus, Giulio Pasolini, Richard
Zbinden
Summary (as pdf): Download leadershipkcafebsapril07_v2_3_summary.pdf
Introduction
On the top of the corporate leadership agenda
is the responsibility for building the corporate community consisting of
clients, shareholders, board directors, employees, partners, suppliers,
authorities, research organisations and other stakeholders. We ask the
question: how do we research, develop and apply new better practices to be
taken in the knowledge management (KM) of an organisation involved in
activities where leadership and innovation success could have significant
performance impact?
Knowledge gaps, bottlenecks, absence or
under-utilisation of knowledge, lack of communication or collaboration, lack of
access to or re-use of existing knowledge, difficulty in storing or retrieving
knowledge, organisational or cultural issues may all contribute significant
barriers to knowledge sharing and innovation, and leaders need to be able to
identify and act on such areas to improve the organisational performance.
Relevant questions related to Knowledge and
Leadership include: How should we lead knowledge-driven organisations in the
21st century? What skills and qualities are needed by today's "knowledge
leaders"? What knowledge strategies
should an organisation adopt for the next five years? What should organisations
be doing today to ensure they have the right leaders, workers, processes, and
projects in place by the turn of this decade? What changes can we forecast in
terms of information and communications technology (ICT), knowledge management,
creativity, learning and collaboration? And how do we prepare as individuals
and organisations to confront these challenges?
A Knowledge Café was held on the terrace of the
Merian Hotel in Basel on 25 April 2007 to discuss these questions through peer-to-peer conversations
between managers and practitioners. The
Knowledge Café lasted ca. 2.5 hours and involved 31 participants.
The six facilitators at the Café were Richard
Zbinden (CEO, Software for Corporate Leaders), Barry Hardy (Founder,
InnovationWell), Douglas Weidner (President, International Knowledge Management
Institute), Chris Pallaris (ETH, Zurich), Pavel Kraus (President, SKMF) and Beat Knechtli (CKO, PwC)
(continued in extension of blog post below)
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