NZKM Podcasts

Dr Jack Bacon - on The Parallel Bang: Non-Linear Thinking in a Non-Linear World

julian.carver — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:21:58 +1200

Dr Bacon is one of the world's most popular speakers on technology and the factors that shape human society. In his daily work, he is on the management team overseeing the construction and operation of the most complicated technical project in history: the International Space Station. He is the author of three popular books; My Grandfathers' Clock, My Stepdaughter's Watch and The Parallel Bang.

This podcast is a recording of a talk he gave at an NZKM event hosted by Intergen in Wellington.

What does the Parallel Bang mean to your organisation, our community, our society and our world?
World economics, work, education and leisure are being transformed before our very eyes. In the last decade, we've tripled our knowledge of astronomy, pinpointed the age and size of the cosmos, counted its galaxies, and found the theory that will link all known physics of the universe. The patent rate has more than doubled. We've decoded out genome. We've doubled our life expectancy. We've changed the workforce and the workweek. We've engineered machines a few atoms in size. More than two thirds of the citizens of the western world are now linked to the Internet.

Futurist, technological historian and engineer Dr Jack Bacon presents a compelling vision that human thought - which houses the parallel universe of all the models of the physical universe - is undergoing an explosive new phase of development not unlike the surge that occurred in the Renaissance. This time, however, it's taking less than a decade, and it's on an exponential trajectory that will take humanity to amazing new heights. In these few thousand days we're living through something of astounding significance as computing, communications, medicine, psychology, politics, transportation, agriculture, and world economics all "throw on the afterburners."

Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for the explosive growth of understanding in the 21st century.

Graham Durant-Law on Visualising Collective Knowledge

julian.carver — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:12:10 +1200

A presentation given by Graham Durant-Law from Australia on the early results of his PhD entitled‘Visualising Collective Knowledge to Manage Complexity in a Portfolio of Projects’. Graham discusses the role of a network relationship approach, how it can add to the armoury of project managers, and offer a means to effectively manage a program or portfolio of projects. Such an approach offers project, program, and portfolio managers the ability to quantitatively, qualitatively, and visually manage their project or projects. Graham gives real examples from a very large Australian organisation to illustrate his models. For more information on Graham, please review his biography (http://www.durantlaw.info/Biography)

Tim Barrable on Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Making Knowledge Work

julian.carver — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:30:21 +1300

In this podcast Tim Barrable, then CIO of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage spoke to an NZKM audience on "Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management: Making Knowledge Work"Tim talks about utilising Web 2.0 tools in the Enterprise to make Knowledge Management a reality. The Ministry for Culture & Heritage hadrecently launched their new Web 2.0 Intranet built using Drupal open source CMS and utilising a number of Web 2.0 tools. They were also at the time making some changes to their public sites Te Ara:Encyclopedia of New Zealand, NZLive.com and NZHistory.net utilising some of the same community building tools.The slides from Tim's talk are available here .

Mike Riversdale on blogs, wikis and KM

julian.carver — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:55:12 +1300

In this talk to a Christchurch audience in 2006, Mike Riversdale, then Knowledge Management Specialist at the Christchurch City Council discusses the use of blogs and wikis in KM.

Dave Snowden on Narrative and Complexity in KM

jonathan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:27:40 +1200

A recording from a talk given by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, at an NZKM event in Wellington.