Good news for those of you who will not make it in the holiday time to attend lectures prof. Ray Dawson “Being Right is Not Good Enough – Why Knowledge Management Initiatives Fail”: YouTube is very similar lecture by prof. Dawson delivered on the occasion of his inauguration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapJPKL2UvY
We recommend!
CCM invites you to the lecture of prof. Ray Dawson: “Being Right is Not Good Enough – Why Knowledge Management Initiatives Fail”
Time: Thursday Aug 7 2014, 10:00
Place: A-951
Synopsis:
Knowledge Management is of growing interest in business and industry today, and many organisations are looking to use knowledge management techniques. However, most knowledge management initiatives fail to measure up to expectations and many fail altogether. What is going wrong? Is this just a passing fad or can knowledge management be used to make worthwhile improvements to an organisation’s way of working?
In this lecture Professor Ray Dawson first examines what knowledge is and what makes the management of knowledge difficult. He concludes that organisations are right to want to embrace knowledge management, but being right is not good enough to ensure the success of any knowledge management initiative.
There are many examples of knowledge management systems that have floundered or failed and some that have been successful. Is it not possible, therefore, to use this knowledge to learn from these experiences to improve the success rate? Professor Dawson describes a number of case studies of knowledge management initiatives and from these he derives a 12 step plan for successful knowledge management implementation.
About the lecturer:
Ray Dawson is Professor of Knowledge Management at Loughborough University, UK. He obtained a bachelor’s and a masters degree from Nottingham University before entering industry with Plessey Telecommunications in 1977. At the company he developed an interest in software engineering processes and the working methods for information systems development as practiced in industry. Since 1987 he has continued this interest in industrial working methods at Loughborough University, working with companies to improve their software engineering processes and their information and knowledge management systems. A particular interest is Knowledge Management systems implantation as these systems seem to have a particularly poor success record and case studies in this area have revealed some interesting lessons for future system developments.
We are delighted to invite you to a unique lecture by Steven van Kerveli from holland firm ForMetis, held Feb 17 within informatics evenings FIT. During the lecture you understand what the engineering approach in building businesses and that even in this area it is possible to build a proper formal foundations. You’ll see how to build information systems for EE. More about the lecture.
Next week will be “a week Smalltalk FIT”. Indeed there will be a visit of Dr. Stéphane Ducasse.
Will be held the following public events:
Contents workshops leave the selection of participants. Number of places in the workshops is limited, make sure you place the application below. If you decide at the last moment, just try to figure out, maybe you’ll get lucky and will instead ;-).
Dr. Ducasse will be fit until Friday. If there is interest, we can do even more workshops and meetings during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you have any special wishes, write.
These actions but not nearly all: We will deal with Dr. Ducass on cooperation within the FIT ESUG and Pharo Consortium. This will give us more interesting and promising topics for student projects, scientific research projects and our industrial partners we are able to offer more advanced technologies and solutions.
Robert Pergl and Martin Podloucký last week visited the Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp. With the department represented by prof. John Verelst we found a number of very synergistic with the CCM issues, especially enterprise engineering and software engineering based on conceptual approach.
On the department are working on a big breakthrough in software engineering over the past several decades, perhaps: applying the theory of normalized Systems (NS) on the sustainable development of large information systems. Although sustainability is a traditional theme, approach, what we saw in Antwerp it is unique in that it is exact and provable. From this approach arise exact criteria to judge whether a particular software system is sustainable or not and in what order to increase the number of necessary changes in the system over time.
The theory is practically applied in a spin-off company NSX, which has developed a code generator based on ANN theory. Information systems developed using this technology are already being used successfully in large Belgian firms and government sectors.
Finally, the visit was formulated topics for cooperation between Antwerp and CCM in the field of education, science and research and cooperation on code generators. The research and application topics will be addressed in the form of student theses, doctoral and postdoctoral topics. Watch page for more details.
Robert Pergl will present the paper “Instance-Level Modelling and Simulation Revisited” at EOMAS. The paper was elaborated in cooperation with the NEMO research group. Robert will be also present at CAISE.
Paper abstract:
Instance-level modelling is a sort of conceptual modelling that deals with concrete objects instead of general classes and types. Instance-level modelling approach offers a rather innovative way for communication with domain experts extremely useful for them, as they can see their real data in the context of the given model. Various approaches were presented in the paper “Instance-Level modelling and Simulation Using Lambda-Calculus and Object-Oriented Environments” at EOMAS 2011. The present paper is a sequel and it presents additional approaches we find useful in practice: Fact-oriented modelling, OntoUML in combination with OCL and the Alloy analyzer and Eclipse-based framework DresdenOCL. We present key features of the various approaches and demonstrate them on a running example, we follow up with a discussion comparing these approaches. Notice that OntoUML combined with the Alloy analyzer is an original research achievement built on the research of OntoUML.
Robert Pergl achieved a DEMO Master Certificate. This the highest DEMO degree issued by Enterprise Engineering Institute. It also authorises the holder to teach accredited DEMO Courses.
Czech Technical University became a member of the CIAO! network. “Cooperation & Interoperability – Architecture & Ontology” (CIAO) is an initiative whose mission is to stimulate the development of the emerging discipline of enterprise engineering, as well as its practical application in improving the societal performance of enterprises. Its members are universities, research institutes, and companies. Their mutual effort is devoted to research, acquiring research funds, disseminating scientific results, and developing practically useful methods, techniques, and tools.
Robert Pergl became the representative of CTU in the CIAO! network.