Award winners announced!
Following the awards ceremony on Tuesday 21 June, we are pleased to announce the following winners and runners-up. Congratulations to all of them for beating stiff competition from some excellent entries!
Lifetime achievement award for services to KM
This award will be presented to a KM expert who has, during their lifetime, made contributions of outstanding significance to the field of knowledge management.
Winner: Professor Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge
Best KM collaborator
This award will be presented to the individual who is, in the view of the judges, an excellent manager of their own knowledge and collaborates effectively to share their knowledge with others both within their own organisation and outside.
Winner: David Gurteen, Founder and Director, Gurteen Knowledge Community
Best KM presentation at an Ark conference
This award will be presented to the individual who received the highest speaker feedback scores at any Ark KM conference taking place between June 2010 and May 2011.
Winner: Nick Davies LLB (Hons), Barrister, The Really Great Training Company
Runners up: Alister Bould, Head Property PSL, Pinsent Masons LLP and Graham Smith, Partner and Global Head of Banking Know-How and Documentation, Allen & Overy LLP – for a joint presentation at KM Legal May 2011
Sector specific KM awards
In addition, there will be three awards for the best KM initiative or implementation within the different industry sectors represented at KMUK 2011. These are:
- Best KM initiative or implementation in a corporate enterprise
Winner: Mars
- Best KM initiative or implementation in a government organisation (This award is also open to entrants from the third sector)
Winner: Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center
Highly Commended: Department for Education
- Best KM initiative or implementation in a professional services firm
Winner: Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
Europe's premier business KM conference
In his radical keynote address at last year's KMUK event, Dave Snowden told knowledge professionals that they had to make themselves strategic to their businesses or else face extinction. Since then, his prophesy has been borne out by business reorganisations which have sidelined the knowledge management function. No one doubts that the tasks undertaken by the knowledge management function will always take place in any organisation that values its intellectual capital, but what these tasks are called and who governs the processes are what is at stake in 2011.
So how can you make sure that good knowledge management practices are safeguarded in your organisation? And how do you ensure that you are the one spearheading the strategic change?
This year's KMUK event has been refocused around these two critical questions. The main purpose of the 2011 event will be to redefine KM as business decision support – a group of tasks and practices that lead all businesses, private and public, to make better decisions. Dave Snowden will once again lead the conference on this theme, while another of our award winning speakers, Nick Davies, will supplement this KM thought leadership with a focus on the influencing skills that you need to develop personally in order to secure a strategic role in your organisation and make sure your business is taking knowledge and learning seriously.
Building on its eight year long reputation, and its resurgence in 2010, KMUK 2011 has an even more interactive programme than ever before, so as to ensure that all participants get the most out of their two days in terms of learning, networking and, most importantly, knowledge sharing.
Why KMUK 2011?
- Hear how Mars, Incorporated delivered a $1 billion bottom line increase through KM initiatives
- Understand how the best organisations learn, including case studies from the London Olympic Games 2012 and the Red Arrows
- Participate in an inbuilt 70-minute David Gurteen knowledge cafe, with an opportunity to discuss where KM has failed and what can be done to change this
- Hear how KM strategy aligned with business goals has delivered results for large organisations including Parsons Brinckerhoff, Novartis, Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust, Syngenta and Thomson Reuters
- Attend the KMUK 2011 awards ceremony recognising experts and practitioners (could it be you this year?)
- Network with KM thought leaders and practitioners – interactive format that allows for maximum group and floor discussion
- Tangible “takeaways” with a facilitated after action review of the conference to maximise your learning from the two days
- Choose the sessions that are most relevant to you – dip in and out of the two streams, one on people, culture and strategy, and the other on tools, techniques and technology
