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Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road, (Opp. Baker Street Station, and Mme Tussauds) Time: 6pm - 8.00pm. Cost: Free. All welcome! Especially PG students. Room: HRM215. Tea/Coffee/Biscuits available. Directions from Security Registration required - please email Elayne on [log in to unmask] - places limited. Past lectures on http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese ================================= June 27th – special addition Knowledge Ecosystems: - Confronting Hyper-turbulent Environments David Bray Emory University - Department of Decision & Information Analysis - USA Hyper-turbulent environments examples include 9/11, the anthrax events of 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Organizations such as those involved with intelligence gathering and public health emergency response, including the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, must confront such seemingly chaotic environments. Organizations like the CIA and CDC may represent the future of business. They are comprised of globally distributed individuals who must exchange time-sensitive knowledge to deal with these hyper-turbulent environments and to increase organizational adaptedness, and thus survivability. Knowledge may rapidly lose its relevance due to these hyper-turbulent environments involving rapid changes in human systems. Compared to ordinary turbulent environments, hyper-turbulent environments require greater inter-individual knowledge exchanges to permit adaptation. David A. Bray received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Internet Institute in 2007, researching inter-organizational management of government services through information systems, focused specifically on national security and public health. Prior to academia, David served for 5 years as IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He led the technology aspects of the program during the response to 9/11, anthrax in 2001, West Nile Virus, SARS and monkeypox in 2003, influenza, and other major outbreaks. He received the CDC Director’s Award for Information Services in 2004 and subsequently was promoted to Associate Director of Informatics. Prior to CDC, David worked as a senior developer and project manager for Microsoft, Yahoo!, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and the National Institutes of Health. David’s working papers are available on SSRN, http://ssrn.com/author=745562 ================================ 9th Annual Series October 17th Gavin Butler University of Westminster Risk Modelling: the impact on Business Continuity Elayne Coakes (Dr) Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management Westminster Business School Room CG70 +44(0)207 911 5000 x3338 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must not copy or show them to anyone, nor should you take any action based on them, other than to notify the error by replying to the sender.