Come and meet E.C.L.O.'s inspirational speakers, engage in lively debate and participate in their special conference Action Learning Research to identify the top five KM concepts that contribute to a Learning Organisation.

Their interactive programme takes place on Day 3, November 10, in ROOM E

10.20: Ruud Bolsius – KPC Groep and E.C.L.O. Corporate Board member (NL)
Return on thinking re-visited
There is a clear link between practical applications using existing knowledge (KM) and the production of new knowledge in Learning Organisations (LO). In this interactive workshop learn how to use techniques to stimulate thinking in individuals, teams and companies and the theories behind learning preferences to support this – vital for those conference participants who are being asked to develop their own KM strategic plans.

11.00: Action Learning Research
Vote for your top five KM concepts that contribute to a LO

11.20: Professor Michael Kelleher & Dr Rob van der Spek – CIBIT (UK and NL)
Building Smart Organisations
Experiential learning now dominates KM case studies and other literature traditionally located within the remit of HRD with recent trends indicating more of a convergence of purpose of KM and Organisational Learning (OL) and Communities of Practice (CoPs). In this session learn about the relationships between these different yet interlinking areas and examine good practice through a variety of knowledge-sharing processes – for conference participants who wish to understand the principles of OL, identify critical success factors and explore OL tools.

12.00: Action Learning Research
Vote for your top five KM concepts that contribute to a LO

12.20: Richard Dealtry – Intellectual Partnerships Consulting (UK)
Integrated development in the age of ‘fadism’

There are now more than 3000 management techniques, processes and psychometric inventories being offered to managers as the cure-all for their organisational pathologies OR they claim to be either people, organisational or business development super solution packages for achieving unlimited growth and excellence. There has always been 'fadism' in management year upon year but, it has now reached tidal wave proportions.
This presentation considers whether this growing portfolio of innovative management solutions is a natural progression in the age of knowledge innovation and what the consequences are for organisational learning in the Strategic Value Adding context of - Who should learn What, Where, When and HOW.

13.00: Action Learning Research
Vote for your top five KM concepts that contribute to a LO

13.20: Józefa Fawcett – KnowledgeWorx (UK)
“KnowledgeWorx Swap Shop”
Come and share what you know and put KM into practice with this participant-led discussion and knowledge-sharing activity. It aims to put like minded people in touch with each other, provide opportunities to identify individual Knowledge Contribution (via an online questionnaire) and learn what it’s like to be part of Europe’s longest-serving Community of Interest.

13.45: Ulrich Schweiker – CBS Group (SWI)
Knowledge-sharing amongst the ‘top shots’
Business owners, senior executives and corporate directors all have a necessity to learn…however many of them are reluctant to use standard learning opportunities. This presentation outlines how a group of such ‘top shots’ were invited to a planned event designed to help them exchange ideas, experiences, insights and plans and how this tailored approach changed their views - for those who are sceptical about how effective knowledge-sharing and story telling can be.

14.25: Action Learning Research
Vote for your top five KM concepts that contribute to a LO

15.00: “We learn like we eat” Peter Pay (UK) The Learner #15
ECLO invites you to join them for afternoon tea and cakes

Are you hungry to learn more about KM? If so, join us and nourish your brain as well as your stomach to promote lifelong learning.

16.00: AU REVOIR FROM ECLO

Background information on ECLO

E.C.L.O. enters the age of innovative knowledge management with new learning process developments

E.C.L.O. was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit organisation based in Belgium. Its original mission : “the promotion and the development of the learning organisation concept in Europe”.

In the past decade, based on this mission, E.C.L.O. has attracted numerous members from the business community, academics, public sector and consultancies coming from a wide range of European countries. This mix has always ensured that different perspectives are brought together and that ideas are cross-fertilised.

E.C.L.O. is now a dynamic multi disciplinary pan-European community of corporations, practitioners, researchers and process consultants that share ideas, problems and solutions in different areas of corporate and SME learning. Its objectives are to create a forum for professional practice exploration and dissemination that will help Members to create opportunities and deliver leading edge skillsets for people to learn and grow at work. It is a partner in the ECUANET the European Action Research Project into Corporate Academy and Enterprise Academy Management Best Practice.

'NEW LEARNING IN THE AGE OF INNOVATION'

Their focus clarifies the link between Organisational Learning (OL) and Knowledge Management (KM) disciplines, which are proving to be a very powerful business development combination.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” said Einstein.

ECLO feels that by combining “imagination and innovation” with “working knowledge” organisations can create the type of culture and climate that underpin knowledge-creation and knowledge-sharing practices that add value and achieve organisational success.