Knowledge Café: The Challenge of Disruption, Knowledge Revolution, Application and Agility
At the 2017 PMI North America Conference, 71% of attendees were 45 years and older; 12% were 18-35 years old. By 2030, 76 million baby boomers will retire. Brain drains? A study by the Education Advisory Board suggests that millennials will job-hop up to 20 times in their career. For the first time in our lifetime, five generations interface in the project management space! When we lose critical business/project knowledge, we will be on the losing side of the next disruption—a perfect storm. Human knowledge is required for machine learning.
In today’s knowledge economy, more than ever, knowledge is the new and most important factor of production—the most significant currency in our project-driven world. Most knowledge or experience becomes outdated within 2-5 years. Hello, immersing oneself in new technologies is like running as fast as possible to stay in the same place without capturing, sharing, and retaining enduring wisdom that can never be obsolete.
The Knowledge Café (Café), a Knowledge Management (KM) technique is needed now because there is currently an absence of simple (agile), conversational, theoretical, and collaborative space. The lack of such an ecosystem by which all generations of knowledge workers can rendezvous, impart, share critical business knowledge, and build deep smarts is found severely wanting. The solution is as simple as a corner café, i.e., an unstructured and interactive system for capturing, sharing, and rejuvenating knowledge. The session will unravel the trend, urgency, methods, and efficacy of KM, in turn, creating new knowledge and innovation.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the trends, urgency, value, techniques, and how-to of knowledge management—the new comparative advantage for high-performing agile organizations
- Strategies for creating a knowledge management culture in your business environment and how to develop a knowledge café for your project teams
- Stir your curiosity for knowledge-sharing, new knowledge, and innovation
