December 1-2, 1999 in Dallas, TX
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• Capitalization of Information as an Asset
• Documentation Management
• How to Informalize Bits
• Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer
• Search Technologies
• Data Mining
• Information Sharing Architecture
Corporations
are slowly beginning to recognize
and
value their knowledge and
information assets. The latter
comprise facts and rules
of thumb crystallized into
online or hardcopy documents,
or residing less explicitly
in the heads of employees
and in their unwritten procedures
and policies. When this information
is represented in some machine-manipulable
form, then it's worth calling
it "knowledge." In
that form, it can be meaningfully
combined with other knowledge;
it can be intelligently searched
for; it can be directly integrated
into and applied to the e-business
universe; it can be shared
or sold or transferred; it
can, in short, be managed.
But
knowledge in itself is
not the objective. The desirable
outcome is understanding,
and the ability to leverage
that understanding into
organizational effectiveness. This requires
an information sharing
architecture that addresses capabilities
for search, analysis, collaboration,
data mining, distribution,
and tool selection and
deployment.
At this conference we will
(1) lay bare the principles
and power underlying
the technology of knowledge
management, (2) develop
a framework for
evaluating the practitioners
and technologies, and
(3) apply that understanding
to look at Knowledge
Management's most plausible organizational
impacts for the next
2-5 years.
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Eric Brewer, Co-founder
and Chief Scientist, Inktomi Corporation
Roger Burlton, Founder,
Process Renewal Group
Edward Feigenbaum, Professor,
Computer Science, Stanford University
David Gilmour, President,
Tacit Knowledge Systems
Eric Hoffert, Founder, Chairman,
and Chief Technology Officer, Magnifi
Doug Lenat, President and
CEO, Cycorp
John Morgridge, Chairman
of the Board, Cisco Systems
Cliff Reid, Founder and
Chairman of the Board, Eloquent, Inc
Ronald Ross, Principal,
Business Rule Solutions, Inc.
Michael Schrage, MIT Media
Lab, Author of Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies
Simulate to Innovate
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