future

lehawes

As Enterprise 2.0 management philosophy and technologies are being introduced and adopted in organizations, information professionals in established roles (e.g. Corporate Librarian, Knowledge Manager) are investigating how they may best contribute and create value in the new environment. This session will explore how information professionals' jobs are changing and how they can thrive in highly collaborative organizations.

[Time: 12-1pm ET]

Potential Discussion Questions:

• How has the traditional role of information managers changed?
• What new opportunities are available for information managers to help their organizations?
• What new skills are needed for current information managers to remain relevant?
• Are information managers becoming community managers?
• If your organization was hiring a new information manager, how would the job description be worded?

elsua

For several years now, Knowledge Management has been having some trouble reconciling with the world of Social Computing. To the point where they do not seem to enjoy keeping each other's company within the corporate world anymore. To many of those social networkers, KM is an oxymoron (How can you manage knowledge?), and, as such, KM might have its days numbered. Imagine that; imagine that, for a moment, KM is gone from the knowledge sharing, social computing & collaboration landscapes within any organisation:

Q1: What would the business world be like? Would companies survive without their KM initiatives?

Q2: Will Social Computing be able to substitute, complement, augment or replace already existing KM initiatives? Should it?

Q3: What could Social Computing do to avoid the same "mistakes" KM might have made over the years in order not to fall on the same trap again?

Q4: Will Social Computing ever follow the same path and disappear pretty much like KM might do as well?

Ridgehead

The implementation of a KM project needs to account for current practice and future trends.  With technology, innovation, and globalization constantly blurring the organizational landscape, the KM practitioner must render solutions that address these trends, while aligning with the business needs and goals.  How do we ensure the we are not rendered obsolete? What does the future hold for our industry?

• What unproven/emerging idea would you like to implement?
• What are early adopters doing today that will be mainstream in 5 years?
• Which technology advances will impact KM significantly, or are we at the point of incremental gains?
• 10-minute KMers prediction market