Senior Consultant Mike Kelleher introduces himselfProf. Michael Kelleher has been involved in research and consultancy in organisational learning and knowledge management for over 14 years. From 1996-2001 Mike was the General Secretary of the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation and has been working as a partner with the DNV-CIBIT team in its knowledge management work with the European Commission since 1998.
Mike specialises in supporting KM strategies, lessons learned methodologies and is particularly experienced in KM issues surrounding multi-project environments. Clients have included GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, ELWa, Scottish Enterprise, European Commission and Anglian Water.
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- Nummer 1: The Dance of Change
The challenges to sustaining momentum in learning organizations, Senge P., Kleiner A., Roberts C., Ross R., George Smith R. & B., 1999, ISBN 0385493223.
Peter Senge and colleagues follow the highly influential Fifth Discipline book that initiated huge interest in the concept of the learning organisation, with this monograph that integrates theory and practice and engages the reader to explore their own experiences and contexts. The book is organised in clear sections that take you through the challenges of initiating, sustaining and redesigning organisational transformation. Those of us who see knowledge management as a way of transforming organisations will gain solace in the difficulties and experiences described and encouragement in the potential solutions suggested.
- Nummer 2: Funky Business
Ridderståle J., Nordström K., 2000, ISBN 0273659073.
‘The new Welfare State – because this time it is a society rather than a state – is designed by IKEA. It comes in self-assembly flat packs and, as you may have noticed, there are no assembly instructions. To survive and thrive you need to arm yourself with the most lethal of weapons: knowledge’. The authors base their arguments on their belief that it has now been overwhelmingly demonstrated that Karl Marx was right all along. The workers really do have ownership of the means of production – their knowledge. In this case, organisations should focus on optimising the potential talent available to them in their employees and cultivating that talent for improved business performance. This is not a traditional knowledge management text, yet contributes to our thinking about the way we manage the quality of knowledge available to us. It is a thought- provoking book, written in an engaging and often humorous style. Is yours a funky business?
- Nummer 3: Linked
How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means fro Science, Business and Everyday Life, Barabási A., 2002, ISBN 0738206679.
Those of us interested in communities of practice will enjoy being challenged by this fascinating insight into the working of networks. Examples are drawn from medical diseases, Hollywood actors and mathematics to demonstrate the power of hubs and the reliance of networks on the operation of those hubs. Where and who are your hubs? How can you ensure that you are connected to them? Are you making the best of them?
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