reporting back on the day one speaker session: Christine presents a summary along with Daan
Big themes
- The hidden messiness of organisations
- challenges of surfacing the knowledge that matters within the messiness (and who judges what matters(
- the implications of these challenges for strategy processes and operations
- The new ways of leading/organising/managing this mess.
Questions arising
- How to manage the complex system of himan interaction (me)
- How to uncover hidden patterns in this mess (Daniel)
- What is the role of leadership in this mess (Karl-Erik
- How to transfer knowledge and stories from one team to antoehr in this mess (Verna)
- How to convince senion managment of this mess of the need for a proper knowledge based stragey (Richard/Victor)
- How to use the social structures in this mess for the benefit of the company
- How to ope up conversations in this mess? (David)
- How an messy organisations learn in a crisis *Elena)
- How to appreciate and transfer the strengths of this mess (Geoff)
- How to prevent people becoming toxic (intoxicated( in the mess? (Steve)
Now Daan is summarising metaphors of knowledge
- as land (aboriginal)
- as labour (put knowledge to work)
- as intuition
- as commodity (knowledge brokers)
- as stuff (distributed cognition)
- as water (knowledge flows)
- as capital (intellectual capital)
- as seeing/knowledge as light (light bulb)
Now moving people into groups to think about what next. I think speakers should stay out of this so this is me signing out. Now to think about the bus to Reading, a train and a lift and home. Interesting event, great location, good people.
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