KM World Seminar Series


“Insights for International Knowledge Management Practitioners”

 
Management (KM) relates directly to the effectiveness with the managed knowledge enables the members of the organization to deal with today’s situations and effectively envision and create their future. This is the belief that Dr. Domingo S. Aranal brought back from his attendance at one the KM world Seminar Series, entitled “Insights for International Knowledge Management Practitioners” in Bangkok University Thailand on January 12, 2009. 

The seminar was organized and certified by IKI-SEA Center of Bangkok University in partnership with the Institute for Knowledge and Innovation (IKI), and Washington University. Among its main objectives are (1) learn how to manage the most important asset of your organization: Your corporate knowledge, your intellectual asset; (2) learn how to support and how to improve your business strategy and core business processes by nurturing knowledge flows and by selecting the right KM technologies; and (3) learn how to create a knowledge sharing culture that will turn your company into a learning organization and will allow your company to gain a competitive advantage and to foster innovation. 

There were three main topics presented at the seminar. The first topic was “The Pragmatic Approach to Crafting a KM Strategy for PTTEP” which was shared by Chulatep Senivongse, the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) of PTTEP the Thai National Petroleum Exploration and Production Company. He presented PTTEP’s KM vision, the drive to have KM, the management support, what KM means to PTTEP, the main obstacles to KM, the road map, KM maturity and the measurement of KM, the KM tools and communities of practice. 

The second topic entitled “The Fall and Rise of KM” was presented by Niall Sinclair from Canada. Niall is the author of the best seller “Stealth KM” and he has worked with NASA, the GSA, the Pen-American Health Organization, the Bank of Montreal, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and numerous other public and private sector organizations in Canada and around the world. His presentation provided participants, particularly those involved with KM, with an analysis of some of the challenges they will face, and how they can meet those challenges.

The Third paper which focused on “Knowledge Management Practices in Norwegian Organizations” was presented by Prof. Dr. Aurelie Aurilla Bechina Arntzen from Norway. Dr. Aurilla who presented the state and practices of KM in Norwegian Organizations has provided consulting KM services to organization in France, Germany, Swede, Thailand and Norway. She acts as the expert-evaluator for the European Union and the Norwegian research council.
 
As a result of Dr. Domingo Aranal’s participation in this seminar, the Graduate School of Norton University has been invited by Dr. Aurelie Aurilla Bechina Arntze to do a collaborative research together with Dr. Lugkana Worasinchai, Director of the Institute for Research and Development, Bangkok University; Dr. Vincent Ribiere, Professor at the Graduate School also of Bangkok University; Dr. Moshidi Sirat, Director of the National Higher Education Research Institute and the concurrent Dean of Research for Social Transformation Research Platform at Universities Sains, Malaysia, Penang; Dr. Michael Stankosky, Professor of Systems Engineering at George Washington University; and Dr. Martin Nkosi Ndlela, Associate Professor in Media and Communication studies at Hedmark University. The proposed project title is “Building Asia-USA-Europe Collaborative Knowledge, Learning Innovation Capacity Research for a Sustainable Development: Bridging the Divide”.

By: Dr. Domingo S. Aranal
NU NEWSLETTER, September 2010 / January 2011
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