Preparing
for Conversations
with Steve Barth and David Snowden
Comparing and
Contrasting Corporate and Personal KM
Steve Barth
Award winning magazine writer
Long Beach, California, US
David Snowden
Director, IBM Cynefin Center for Organizational Complexity
England
 Steve
Barth
An award-winning
magazine writer, Steve Barth has spent the last six years specializing
in knowledge management, organizational intelligence and knowledge
worker productivity.
Over the last 25
years, however, Steve has written about cutting-edge research
in physics, s ociology, medicine, chemistry, geology, biology,
electronics, engineering and environmental sciences.
He has covered new
theories in domestic violence and quantum cosmology; explained
the processes involved in leveraging buyouts and carving canoes.
Steve has profiled
a foul-mouthed monk, an anonymous astronaut, a UN hostage negotiator,
and a mystical geologist. His articles and essays have attempted
to untangle the political, economic and cultural aspects of American
trade and political relations in Asia. He conducted the very
last interview with quality guru W. Edwards Deming and wrote
a book about Hawaiian natural history for the Smithsonian.
Every bit of this
experience has proven useful in the work he has done since the
first issue of America's KM magazine in 1998 (which he joined
after several years as senior editor at another Freedom Communications
magazine, World Trade). The ideas behind the current knowledge
management movement are hardly new, but KM presents a new framework
for many of the efforts seeking to make the workplace more productive,
more agile, more innovative and even more humane.
Since 2002, Steve
has also been working with Dave Snowden's Cynefin Centre and
several other groups as executive editor of Emergence: Complexity
& Organisation (ECO) a new journal in development with
Palgrave Macmillan publishing about the implications and applications
of complexity theory to human organizations.
Steve is based in
Long Beach, California, and can be reached through his personal
website at www.global-insight.com.
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David
Snowden
David Snowden is
director, IBM Cynefin Center for Organizational Complexity. One
of the founders of Organic Knowledge Management, he is an acknowledged
expert on the management of tacit knowledge and has developed
a series of pioneering methods including the use of anthropological
techniques for knowledge disclosure through the ASHEN model,
the use of stories as an advanced form of knowledge repository
(based on six years of research into story telling cultures around
the  world) and the Cynefin "Just
in Time" model of knowledge transfer between formal and
informal communities.
A gifted speaker
and educator, he is in regular demand as a keynote speaker world
wide.
His masterclasses
in Organic Knowledge Management and Storytelling are highly rated
and a regularly sell out. Many of these events have been organized
by the ARK Group, an AOK affiliate, and with another AOKer, Stephen Denning who was the first STAR
SERIES guest moderator..
Dave Snowden has
an MBA from Middlesex University and a BA in Philosophy from
Lancaster University. He is an honorary fellow in knowledge management
at the Universities of Surrey and Warwick and teaches on the
MBA programs at Warwick, Sophia Antipolis and Piacenza.
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The
Issues
Steve Barth and
Dave Snowden will compare and contrast personal knowledge management
(PKM) and Corporate Knowledge Management (CKM) in this conversation.
Steve is noted for
his focus on managing one's personal knowledge while Dave is
focused on the role of the organization in facilitating personal
networks. They approach the management of personal knowledge
from two different angles.
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