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Dear Rebecca,

Your seminar looks very interesting. It is very good to have Max Boisot
as a speaker. Unfortunately, I probably cannot attend your seminar.

At our department Information Management of the Rotterdam School of
Management, Erasmus University, we are setting up a research and a
education program on knowledge management. One of the things we want to
do is writing a research proposal for the European Commission (Fifth
Framework). I just want to know if your KM research group is possibly
interested in participating the European research project.

Best regards,


Peter van Baalen


Rebecca Dale wrote:
> 
> The bprc is pleased to announce it's next seminar:
> Aligning Knowledge Management with
> Complexity:
> Creating a New Paradigm for the
> Knowledge Economy
> 
> Wednesday 17th March 1999
> 10.00-17.00
> 
> at Radcliffe House
> University of Warwick
> Coventry
> 
> Beyond the Rhetoric of Knowledge Management
> 
> Knowledge Management has enjoyed a great deal of popular press.  An
> organisation's capacity to
> develop and leverage its intellectual capital is promoted as the new
> competitive weapon.  Yet little has been
> available in the way of practical approaches for dealing with intangible
> knowledge assets.
> 
> Much of an organisation's intellectual capital is tied up in its human
> capital.  This workshop deals with
> organisations as complex and evolving.  It introduces two powerful
> practices to unlock and leverage knowledge
> held jointly and severally by the people in the organisation.
> 
> Professor Max Boisot, author of Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive
> Advantage in the Information
> Economy is an international figure in academia and consultancy.  He is
> Professor of Strategic Management
> at ESADE, and holds senior positions at the Judge Institute, Cambridge
> and the Soll Sneider Center, Wharton.  He
> consults with many major multinationals.
> 
> David Snowden Director of the Knowledge and Differentiation Programme at
> IBM Global Services
> is a profound thinker and an extremely popular speaker at international
> conferences.
> 
> Yasmin Merali, Director of the Information Systems Research Unit,
> consults with UK and Multinational
> companies.  She is frequent speaker at international conferences, on
> knowledge management and business
> transformation.
> 
> Programme
> 
> Coffee and registration
> 
> Introduction and Objectives
> 
> Yasmin Merali presents the context for the workshop and its implications
> for the future of
> intellectual and human capital management
> 
> Workshop Session 1
> 
> Using his Culture-Space Framework Max Boisot presents some unusual
> properties of knowledge
> flows and shows how to extract value from them.  The framework is used
> to explore management
> of corporate knowledge in discontinuous environments and the impact of
> cyberspace on knowledge flows and
> learning.
> 
> Lunch
> 
> Workshop Session 2
> 
> David Snowden shows how to use ideas of complexity in conjunction with
> story telling to see, harness and
> develop the tacit and implicit knowledge embedded in individuals and
> groups in organisations.
> 
> Plenary
> 
> The session is used to build on the day's workshops and to develop a
> coherent map for the shaping of sustainable
> organisational ecologies for the knowledge economy.
> 
> Note:  Workshop numbers are limited to 20 to enhance a
> rich and enjoyable learning experience for participants and
> presenters.
> 
> the charge for the day is 295 pounds
> 
> If you would like to attend, please contact Rebecca Dale, details below.
> 
> http://bprc.warwick.ac.uk/yascom.html
> 
> Rebecca Dale
> Research Fellow
> Business Processes Resource Centre
> tel.: (01203) 524 344
> fax: (01203 524 307
> email: [log in to unmask]
> http://bprc.warwick.ac.uk