Overview:

This year NetITX celebrates its 21st birthday.  It began in 1992 as the IRM Network, which grew out of a series of seminars at Aslib.  In 2003 it became KIMNET (Knowledge and Information Management Network), and in 2006 NetIKX was established as a fully independent network.  It seemed fitting, for our final seminar of the year, to choose a topic which has always been at the heart of our activities.

The 7 Ages of IKM in Organizations

Knowledge management in its current incarnation is not quite as old as NetIKX. David Skyrme has been involved as a KM consultant and writer since it started impacting management consciousness in the mid-1990s. In this talk he reviews how information and knowledge management in organizations has evolved during this time and highlights some challenges that IKM professionals will face in the future. He also poses the question: "why don't we learn from what we know - or at least knew in the past?"

The Organisation of Organisational Knowledge
 
Large organisations are complex and can have diverse data, information and knowledge needs. The interactions between people, technologies and knowledge and information can be very uneven, with a wide spectrum of understanding and skills. This presentation will look at how data, information and knowledge management is being developed at the London Legacy Development Corporation. It will outline the approach and methodology we have taken in working to understand what the business users actually do, and what their needs are. It will describe how we started to make progress through an empirical analysis of what data and information exists, where it is, and how it is being used. The use of informal drop-in workshops on topics such as information security and email management have created very useful discussions to share knowledge, and for us to learn about the culture of information use and management in the organisation. 
 
The presentation will describe how we have learned from the business users, and the approaches we have taken to raise their understanding of the issues, and helped them increase their skills. This is very much a case study and will use plenty of practical experiences and anecdotal evidence – key ways in which we learn. 


Learning objectives:
•	To understand the development and future of knowledge organisation
•	To consider any possible implications for your own organisation

Speakers
David Skyrme has come out of retirement to deliver his talk. For several years he was on the committee of NetIKX's forerunner, the Aslib IRM group, and he has talked to us on several previous occasions. As well as his consulting work he has published widely and his website continues to be a useful resource for KM professionals (www.skyrme.com).

Danny Budzak has been working with digital technologies for over 25 years. He started off in a library, then began to build video-text systems using a unix based application. From there he became one of the UK’s first local authority web editors and won a New Statesman New Media award 1999.
 
He helped create the generic information architecture for local authority websites. He has developed classification systems, a successfully local history website, managed document management systems and created an information governance toolkit which was used by almost 100 local authorities. He worked on the Whole System Demonstrator project to assess data sharing in the NHS. A couple of years ago he helped with the transfer of around 7 million electronic files from one organisation to another, including several hundred mailboxes and the contents of several databases.
 
Danny is absorbed and frustrated by technologies in equal measure; he has no wish for a smartphone, but can’t be without his netbook. He is fascinated by the culture implications of technologies and the organisational culture of working environments. As an antidote to all of this, he is currently reading his way through the history of the 17th and 18th centuries. 


Timetable    14:00 - 14:30  Registration (and refreshments)
                    14:30 - 15:30  Speakers
                    15:30 - 15:45  Tea
                    15:45 - 16:45 Syndicate sessions
                    16:45 - 17:00 Conclusion 
                    17:00   Refreshments and a glass of wine
                    18:00   Close
                 
Venue
The British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole St, W1G 8YS (nearest underground station Bond Street)

Twitter hashtag for this event #netikx64.

Seminar Costs 
If you are a NetIKX Member or join NetIKX now there is no charge. 

Non Members are welcome to attend at a charge of £50. 
Special Offer: If you join NetIKX within a month of attending this meeting, we will deduct the £50 from your annual subscription, reducing it to £50 for individual members, and £100 for corporate members.

Further details and registration at http://www.netikx.org/content/knowledge-organization-past-present-and-future-tuesday-26-november-2013