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Patrick Lencioni was the keynote speaker today at the Project Flow conference. He did a great job of speaking on the topic of "Building a Culture of Teamwork and Engagement" with a focus on telling hilarious stories about business and himself. I suspect you could pick up a lot of the below from reading his books, but here is a summary of the 90 minutes he spent with us today.

The fundamentals of CCPM workshop was interesting in that I saw some new simulations (games) and he put the vicious cycle of standard operations in a drawing that made a lot of sense to me.

A week ago, the Sunday Boston Globe carried a piece on Eugene Litvak's work on helping hospitals improve. Flow is the key.

To follow on from my pizza-based KM post yesterday, KMWorld hosted a webinar entitled, "31 Flavors of Knowledge Management,"* so I signed right up.

The Boston Chapter of the Association for Strategic Planning hosted Patti Anklam this Tuesday for a discussion of her book, Net Work, and the idea of networks in organizations.

Dan Keldsen spoke at the Boston KM Forum this evening with the official topic of "Emergence - Get with it or fade away." Basically, though, it was about social media and how you can bring your company, your idea or YOU to the attention of other people.

I attended yesterday's KM Community Call, hosted by Carla O'Dell of APQC. The topic was the 2008 Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises as announced by Teleos on Wednesday. APQC were one of the twenty winners.

I attended a webinar today by Peter Cohan of The Second Derivative on the topic of doing remote demonstrations and doing them well.

I'm in Philadelphia this week for the AIChE Annual Meeting, which is its usual collection of networking and technical sessions about all things engineering. There was a session today on the application of Web 2.0 ideas in chemical engineering.

I attended a webinar on Product Management today entitled, Product Manager 101: What Does A Product Manager Actually Do by Christopher Cummings of Lycos.

My company brought in ZigZag Marketing to do some refresher training and provide some ongoing guidance around our product management / product marketing function. Here's an overview and some of my comments.

Doug Cornelius asked me to participate in the NY-Toronto Law Firm KM Summit 2008, (held in Boston). Here are my notes from the morning sessions - I went back to work in the afternoon.

The Boston KM Forum topic this evening was "Tag Me! Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise," a talk by Laurie Damianos of MITRE.

Lessons learned only matter when someone else takes the results and does something with it!

I sat in on a Catalyze Community webinar today, given by Carey Schwaber, a Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research. The topic was "Ten Tips for Driving Better Project Outcomes" and was directed at the Business Analyst role.

The Enterprise 2.0 conference was in Boston again this year. Here are some of my thoughts and impressions as a hallway attendee.

During my last week in Chicago I attended the iBio event on Understanding Quality by Design - a panel discussion between Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Purdue), Dan Heighway (Eli Lilly), and Sam Venugopal (Conformia).

Gian Jagai of Hitachi Global Services was the main speaker at the Boston KM Forum, and he discussed the entertaining topic of "so you were just promoted to knowledge manager - now what?"

Friday morning, I joined a half dozen other people at the monthly Boston KM Forum breakfast meeting in Waltham. The topic, loosely, was information literacy.

Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing gave an entertaining and informative talk at the Boston Product Management Association meeting this evening.

I attended an excellent discussion (via webinar) of what product managers should be doing in organzations, from the perspective of Marty Cagan of the Silicon Valley Product Group.

Dave Simmons spoke at the March KM Chicago meeting on "Working with KM Building Blocks: Starting and Sustaining a KM Initiative at the local level." But I felt like this was almost a discussion of what any new Knowledge Worker should do when they are new to the job.

Stuart Rosenberg from Deloitte spoke on expertise location at the KM Chicago meeting this evening. His focus was on the iConnect (Tacit Software) roll out in the company for expertise location.

This week I attended an Effective Business Presentations Skills workshop from Mandel Communications, a two-day session that is heavy on the practice of the guidance they provide.

I attended an interesting webinar this afternoon on Design Thinking by Linda Yaven, Professor at California College of the Arts.

The design of the InnovationWell workshop on Next Generation KM for R&D was to talk about that exact topic and what might be involved in creating the technology around supporting R&D activities.

Cynthia Lesky of Threshold Information led an interesting discussion at the KM Chicago meeting this evening. The core question was "Is there a role for external information in knowledge management?"

The Sunday sessions at BlogHer rocked! This was were all "unconference" style via Open Space Technology. As a result of this session, I've set up CoffeeNeeded.com and made even more connections with wonderful BlogHers.

People who have been following my blog for a while have probably seen me reference Brandon Wirtz' thought that Blogs are just a front porch. I like this particular analogy enough that I tossed it out as a topic at the BlogHer unconference.

The second unconference session was initiated by Aliza Sherman as a result of the communities panel from Friday, where there was not enough time to talk about how and why communities die / break-up / fade away.

Does knowing who reads your blog change what you say and how you say it? Do you censor what you say because you don't want your readership (or potential readers) to learn something or to be offende...

My thoughts and comments for the BlogHer sessions on Saturday, July 28th.

Some of my reaction to the first day of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago.

I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.

This month's KM Chicago meeting hosted Tim Keelan of StoryQuest. He talked about his company and the work he does around providing audio of first-person stories. He focused on the concepts of peer-based learning, using and finding stories, and mobile learning.

The KM Chicago meeting this evening was a panel discussion, chaired by me, in which we played off the recent Time Magazine Person of the Year recognition that user-generated-content is king in this world of YouTubes and Flickrs and the like.

The second session I attended Tuesday was another by Eli Schragenheim, this time describing how Simplified Drum Buffer Rope (S-DBR) works, how it was developed and how it relates to traditional DBR. This was particularly interesting, as Eli Schragenheim gets the credit for conceptualizing and developing S-DBR.

Along with the presentations, there were a number of new-to-me software providers that implement TOC solutions. I did not get a chance to see all of them, but here is a list for those who might be interested.

The first two days of the conference were actually a workshop with Eli Goldratt. The second two days are more like your regular conference with a number of speakers and parallel speaker tracks.

The first session today was a discussion on the the ways for TOC software to work within traditional IT, and it was led by Eli Schragenheim, a long time member of the TOC community and principal in Goldratt Schools.

The second day of the TOC ICO conference was another full day "upgrade workshop" with Eli Goldratt. He covered a Strategy & Tactics Tree for developing a mutually-beneficial collaboration between a manufacturer and a distributor. There were some other TOC tidbits throughout the day.

At the TOC ICO conference, Eli Goldratt spent the entire first day describing the Reliable Rapid Response strategy and tactic tree. Here are some responses to the day's discussion.

At today's open house for Dominican's Center for Knowledge Management, Christina Stoll described a new analogy for knowledge management: a jigsaw puzzle.

Mary Lee Kennedy is at the helm for this month's AOK Star Series discussion. The focus of the discussion will be around sense-making.

Richard Flanagan discussed the process he uses to help companies get great value out of their training and development work, as described in the book, Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning.

I attended the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference (CLLC) today. Here is a smattering of quotes and thoughts I had.

KM Chicago hosted a panel discussion of area academics who have knowledge management components to their programs. All three programs acknowledge the wide breadth of "what is KM" and bring in perspectives from many disciplines, even though their academic backgrounds are different.

Day 2 of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and it closed out with more energy than yesterday. There were three sessions today: Is KM morphing into Practice Support, KM and Professional Development, and a brainstorming session on Making KM client-facing.

The first day of KM in the Modern Law Firm is over, and I found myself fairly comfortable, even though I'm not a lawyer. The KM topics discussed today looked at deeper integration of KM (and information management) into the firm; life cycle management of information central to the business of the firm; the cultural concerns with implementing KM-like changes; and what KM can do as the firm looks outside (the panel on which I participated).

I attended the Web2.0 and Communities distributed conference from CPSquare during the past four weeks. It was very instructive to me, as a person fairly well versed in the technology end of the spectrum. There are some lessons about online conferences to be learned as well.