KM World 2014 will be held in Washington DC at the Grand Hyatt from November 4 to 7. It is great event. I used go regularly and highly recommend it to anyone interested in helping workforces perform at their maximum levels. There are many useful workshops including the ones described below.
The workshop “Flexible & Agile Workstyles & Processes for the 21st Century Organization” will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m on Tuesday, November 4th. Be sure to vote that day. A number of the presenters are good friends. They include: Susan Scrupski, Change Agents Worldwide, Joachim Stroh, Change Agents Worldwide, Jon Husband, Techno-Anthropologist, Wirearchy, Catherine Shinners, Founder, Merced Group, and Carrie Young, Talk Social To Me.
The description reads as follows. “The Future is already here and evenly distributed among the global members of the Change Agents Worldwide (CAWW) network. This half day workshop shares their secrets: how they work, their values, how they adopt/adapt/ exapt new ways of working with their global team. A team of Change Agents discusses leading organizational concepts such as: new models for organizational design, the power of self-organization, social and organizational network analysis, and more. They’ll talk about the cornerstone of what makes their networked organization work: transparency, trust, authenticity, and a culture of sharing and cooperation. The CAWW network exemplifies how social and operational integration yields iterative improvements in responding to customers, working collaboratively with partners, and creating value in the marketplace. The workshop also talks about what supports their work: SWARMS, Pods, Cookie Jars, Green Rooms, and other new processes based on agile and self-organizing principles.”
In the afternoon Catherine Shinners and Carrie Young continue with the workshop, “Enterprise Social Networking: Business Case, Adoption, & Engagement” from 1:30 to 4:30. The description is as follows, “Social and collaborative technologies are key to empowering employees to transform the way they work, interact, and engage, enabling companies to catalyzing product and service innovation and deepening customer insight and relationships—in essence redesigning the way business is done. At the same time, an enterprise social network is inherently “human,” allowing people to be people by facilitating with technology the informal social connections that already thrive. Implementing an enterprise social network can also mean rethinking workplace practices and a need for new governance models, leadership skills, and transforming the way we communicate. No matter where you are on the path of integrating “social” into your organization, this workshop helps you understand the key elements of an enterprise social networking initiative, from business case development to ROI and value-measurement principles to cultural and organizational readiness, through use case development, leadership skills and engagement, social network analysis, governance strategies, and adoption planning and ongoing engagement. Get a comprehensive view of key planning elements and useful tools that have worked for organizations big and small since 2009. Targeted toward executive sponsors of social initiatives, community managers, and technical leaders of social product portfolios, this interactive workshop gives you the key elements to develop or improve your enterprise social networking initiative.”