Keynote Speakers
 Karl-Erik Sveiby
“ Collaboration in Organizations: A Walk on the Dark Side”
Collaboration and sharing of knowledge have clear benefits for people and enhance business performance – yet many managers do not seem to know how to organize for improving Collaborative Climate. Some managers even do their best to prevent sharing of knowledge among their staff. This is an increasing problem in many organizations, both public and private around the world. Latest research on Collaborative Climate will be shared in this presentation. For the first time the experience of employees has been examined in a large international study. They describe how their supervisors and executives – both intentionally and unintentionally – prevent sharing of knowledge among their staff. The most common bad management behaviors are listed and ranked.
 Prof. Zhongtuo Wang
“Knowledge Integration and Creation in Indigenous Innovation”
Strategic decisions on developing the indigenous innovation are important for economic growth. There are three kinds of indigenous innovation: original, integrated, and importing-absorbing-digesting-re-innovation. The later two may be categorized as “Innovation by system integration”, which are closely related to the knowledge integration and creation process. The individual and organizational tacit knowledge play important roles in the innovation process. A knowledge continuum model is put forward for the investigation of knowledge integration and creation process in innovation. The effect of thinking styles on the system integration process is also discussed.
 Usama M. Fayyad
“ From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery: Towards Evolving the New Sciences Underlying the Internet”
The past two decades have seen a rapid transformation of computational systems representing the "digitization" of business operations from manufacturing, to ERPs, portals and systems for customer online interaction. These ubiquitous systems not only capture and share knowledge but also increase the transacting knowledge-based services. Up to now most organizations do not have an effective strategy on how best to leverage the collected data on market, customers, consumers and competitors. Drawing on his extensive experience gained at NASA, Microsoft, and now Yahoo!, techniques and cases on how to discover and operationalize new found knowledge from mass data and information repositories will be illustrated.
 Patrick LAMBE
“ Knowledge Organization and Organization Effectiveness in Taxonomy Related Work”
A Knowledge organization, conducted through taxonomy-related work, is frequently assumed to be a matter of content management - organizing explicit knowledge and information assets for retrieval. In this presentation, through a series of case studies, how taxonomy work contributes to organizational effectiveness far beyond simple content management and retrieval is demonstrated. The rationale for knowledge organization can run to the core of an organization's ability to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities in its environment.
 Leif EDVINSSON
“ Intellectual Capital Based Management and Benchlearning – An European Perspective”
Acquisition of knowledge assets and its effective management have been widely recognized by policy makers and researchers as the key source of innovation and drivers for competitive advantage for firms, organizations, cities, and regions. The evolution of Intellectual Capital management and the latestdevelopment of IC Reporting and Benchmarking in Europe as led by a High Level Expert Group of the European Commission are discussed. Examples of application in a very successful project by the Ministry of Business and Work (BMWA) companies in Germany are introduced.
 Dave SNOWDEN
“ Narratives and Sensemaking, a Naturalistic Approach to Knowledge Management”
A new approach emerges in which we focus not on the management of knowledge as a "thing", but on the management of the ecology of knowledge. The process of knowledge capture by KM experts frequently involves a massive loss of context. The naturalizing tradition in philosophy seeks to link thinking about knowledge with the physical sciences. Naturalizing approaches in KM are rooted in this tradition, but also seek to work with the way in which humans have evolved to know and share learning. Seeing knowledge as a manageable flow, not simply as an asset presents exciting theoretical and practical opportunities which will be addressed in this keynote address.
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