“Nearly 60 percent of projects aimed at achieving business change do not fully meet their objectives.” – IBM, 2008.

Why does this happen? As many working in Knowledge Management and related fields understand, it’s all about people and complexity. Organisations are increasingly dependent on people and what they know in order to operate successfully in today’s environment. It is no longer sufficient for organisational change to be driven by a small handful of people – there is no monopoly on ideas.

In this session, Keith De La Rue will present and lead a conversation on: 

• Recent insights into effective organisational change.
• The impact of complexity and the importance of engaging people. 
• Creativity and the wisdom of crowds. 
• Social Media – the power of trust and openness.

Participating in this event will enable you to…

• Develop a clearer understanding of complexity and how to address it.
• Take away some new approaches for addressing change in your organisation.
• Find out where to go for more up-to-date information on change.

Agenda:  Wednesday June 23rd

6:00-6:30 Networking with other thinking collaborators (over drinks and nibbles).
6:30-7:15 Keith De La Rue –The Idea Monopoly?
7:15-8:00 Informal conversation amongst the group to explore the ideas and concepts.

Venue:

RMIT Graduate School of Business, 300 Queen Street, Melbourne
Lecture room 158.1.2B (Ground level – just behind reception).
Ample metered street parking nearby in Queen Street (between La Trobe and Little Lonsdale).

RSVP: by email to melbournekmlf@gmail.com

About our Guest Speaker

Keith De La Rue is an independent consultant at AcKnowledge Consulting, working in knowledge, communication and learning. He previously worked in Knowledge Management at Telstra for eight years. He has worked in a number of aspects of organisational change for over 20 years in a range of industries.

His most recent client project involved writing post-graduate training material covering trust, communication, social networking and knowledge sharing.

Keith has been a member of the Melbourne KMLF for 10 years, including time on the leadership committee, and has been a regular speaker at conferences in Australia and overseas since 2004 on a range of topics.

He blogs at http://delarue.net