Process – Pioneer Knowledge Services®

Data is foundational to knowing. Set up your business with a designed and thorough knowledge architecture. Join to hear more from Annie Green PhD.

According to Green:

• The conduit to actionable data and information are the tools and systems used to capture, store, manipulate, disseminate and present. However, we must bring together the thought leaders and experts to gain a clear view of how to build structures that enable dissemination of intelligence and knowledge.

• Seeking and finding intelligence and new ways of improving the current state should not be done in the aftermath of negative outcomes. Consider if the effort of being proactive is more valuable than the cost of being reactive.

• Communication is duplex. Not only do machines augment humans, but humans augment machines. Ensure their congruency, resilience and integration.

This was recorded 26 Mar 2019.

Edwin K. Morris is the president and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services which produces this educational program, Because You Need To Know. It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management and nonprofit concerns. pioneer-ks.org/

Annie Green

Annie is a published author, speaker, lecturer, journal reviewer and a member of several brain trust/think tanks. She was the co-founder of the Knowledge Management Education Forum (KMEF); served as Chair of the Association for Intelligent Information Management KM Competencies team; and served as the chair of the International Conference on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management (ICICKM) 2013. She is the creator of the Framework of Intangible Valuation Areas (FIVA), a model that identifies intangible assets within the business structure

Also she created the Business Reasoning, Analytics, Intelligence Network (BRAIN), a model that identifies the components to establish artificial intelligence in the business enterprise structure. She has a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from George Washington University and a Masters in Information Systems (M.S.I.S) from George Mason University.

Her KM focus is on building an architecture that leverages data, intelligence and knowledge to build a thinking organization. She has built a career on the effective and efficient operations of organizations’ and she prides herself on being an evangelist for individual and organizational thinking that leverages data, intelligence and knowledge.

Is your organization learning? Does the culture have the trust to collaborate well? Find out what it takes to enable knowledge flow with our guest Nancy M. Dixon PhD.

This was recorded 26 Mar 2019.

Edwin K. Morris is the president and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services which produces this educational program, Because You Need To Know. It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management and nonprofit concerns. https://pioneer-ks.org/

Common Knowledge Associates http://www.commonknowledge.org/

Nancy M. Dixon is a former academic turned consultant. Before starting her own company in 2000, Common Knowledge Associates, she was a tenured professor and Department Chair of Administrative Sciences at the George Washington University, and before that a professor at the University of Texas. Her current research is focused on how to create psychologically safe environments for teams, both virtual and face-to-face to learn with and from each other. She believes that organizations learn when groups across the organization hold regular reflective conversations about work issues. Her latest thinking can be found in her blog nancydixonblog.com.

Dr. Dixon has worked with a wide range of corporate, government and non-profit organizations, including Huawai Technologies Ltd., Bose, ConocoPhillips, Ecopetrol, Netherlands Railroad, the US Army, the Defense Intelligence Agency, USAID, United Way World Wide, The World Bank Group and NASA.

Knowledge put to action shapes the future. I invite you to journey with our special guest Professor Dave Snowden to discover insights in the realm of what truly strategic and society changing knowledge management can be.

This was recorded 05 Mar 2019.

Edwin K. Morris is the president and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services which produces this educational program, Because You Need To Know. It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management and nonprofit concerns. pioneer-ks.org/

Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organizational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organizations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.

He holds positions extra-ordinary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch as well as visiting Professor at Bangor University in Wales. He has held similar positions at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Canberra University, the University of Warwick and The University of Surrey. He held the position of senior fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore during a sabbatical period in Nanyang.

His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and won the Academy of Management aware for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is a editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research program on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research.

Edwin K. Morris President and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services hosts this program, “Because you need to know," It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management.

Stan Garfield is a knowledge management author, speaker, and community leader based in Northville, Michigan. He has worked in the field of knowledge management for over 20 years.

Stan spent 8 years at Deloitte leading communities and enterprise social networking. Prior to that, he spent 25 years at HP, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Stan launched Digital's first knowledge management program in 1996, helped develop the corporate KM strategy for Compaq, and led the Worldwide Consulting & Integration Knowledge Management Program for HP. He also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, St. Louis University School of Medicine, and Washington University School of Medicine.

Stan holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. He leads the SIKM Leaders Community with over 600 members globally, and is invited to present at numerous conferences, including KMWorld. Stan has published over 100 LinkedIn articles on leadership, innovation, knowledge management, communities of practice, enterprise social networks, and social media.

Edwin K. Morris President and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services hosts this program, “Because you need to know," It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management.

David Gurteen is a keynote speaker and conversational facilitator.

He works in the fields of knowledge management, organizational learning and conversational leadership. He gives keynote talks, designs and facilitates Knowledge Cafés and runs workshops around the world.

He is best known as the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café – a conversational process to bring a group of people together to learn from each other and make better sense of a rapidly changing, complex world.

He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global network of over 22,000 people in 160 countries.

This conversation was recorded on February 17th 2016.

Edwin K. Morris is the President and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services, America’s first knowledge management nonprofit. Edwin is the host of, “Because you need to know". This program serves the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management.

Join in as knowledge management and innovation with in western NY is explored.

Ms. Kimberly LaMendola is the Local Food Projects Manager and Regional Development Coordinator for the regional planning and development organization, Southern Tier West.

She serves constituents of Western NY specifically in Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua Counties. She helps farmers and food producers to expand consumer markets, increase demand for local food products, and cooperatively market and promote regional food items. Kimberly also serves as the region’s coordinator for the area development grant program sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission and is very active in developing eligible projects that will benefit the region’s economic vibrancy.

Edwin K. Morris President and founder of Pioneer Knowledge Services hosts this program, “Because you need to know," It is part of the mission to educate and bring awareness around knowledge management.

Sr. Margaret Carney is the 20th President of St. Bonaventure University and a member of the Sisters of St. Francis headquartered in Syracuse, New York.

During her time as president she has served on the boards of the Council of Independent Colleges of New York state, Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Association of Francicsan Colleges and Universities. Her special study interests include medieval women’s history, theology, policy process studies and strategic planning.

She resides in Olean, New York and is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. Recorded 27 May 2015.