Southern California KM Cluster®  2005 Event   Enterprise Social Networks Analysis with Valdis Krebs using Friday, February 25, 2005 8:00am - 5:00pm Two ways to register:       Secure On-line Registration

Southern California KM Cluster®  2005 Event Location   PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Southern California 350 South Grand Ave, 49th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071-3406  Telephone: [1] (213) 356 6000 Telecopy: [1] (813) 637 4444   Map

 

Value Proposition The KM Cluster® is pleased and honored to announce Valdis Krebs will lead a valuable day-long tutorial on Enterprise Social Network Analysis (SNA). Valdis is among a small handful of top worldwide practitioners in enterprise SNA. His professional career has focused exclusively for 17 years on SNA in the enterprise, global organizations and other institutions. Valdis’ offerings are highly practical – they are all about achieving timely benefits and advantages of enterprise SNA while working with real managers in real business. Some of your immediate benefits and value include: • Lower cost through far better balance and use of existing resources; • Improve financial performance by optimizing contribution of top performers; • Focus attention on the importance of tacit knowledge and intangible assets; • Uncover your best knowledge resources and conduits in the organization; • Achieve fundamental improvements and speed in innovation and R&D. For a more exhaustive list of benefits visit the Enterprise SNA Agenda. Valdis will walk you through Enterprise SNA in great practical detail. This includes many practical, real life  success stories from respected organizations such as IBM, Aventis, CapitalOne, Center for Disease Control, Lucent Technologies, Shell, Rubbermaid, Deloitte, Jaakko Pöyry, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz-Allen, KPMG and University of Michigan Business School. In addition to the tutorial and narrative technique, this hands-on gathering will use InFlow 3.0 Network Mapping Software. This robust, friendly technology is used to effectively map and measure networks, flows, and relationships in organizations, communities and other complex human systems. Paired with proven enterprise SNA techniques, these practical methods are instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic knowledge ecosystems essential to productivity, innovation and the future of all knowledge-based organizations. Each Enterprise SNA participant receives a fully-functional, 75-node participant copy of InFlow Software to quickly bootstrap you SNA pilot projects. Follow-on telephone consulting is available to assure your success. Participants also receive a discount on InFlow Software and services. As usual, all materials, meals, refreshments, registration, shared services and other logistics are covered by your KM Cluster tuition. In addition, all participants also receive a complimentary copy of “The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations,” by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker.     Enterprise SNA is among the very first commercially available SNA training with a pure and practical focus on the enterprise. It is intended for practitioners, executives, R&D directors, HR professionals, line-of-business managers, vendors, researchers, enterprise architects, educators, consultants and everyone needing a fast start for their enterprise SNA initiatives. You are encouraged to register early because this event will fill-up fast.   Discover Your Network Age The 5 Ages of Networker © Andy Swarbrick Enterprise Social Network Analysis - Benefits and Advantages Enterprise Social Network Analysis is used to effectively map and measure networks, knowledge flows and relationships in organizations, communities and other complex human systems. These practical methods are highly instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic knowledge ecosystems essential to productivity, innovation and the future of all knowledge-based organizations. The specific benefits and advantages you will gain from the Enterprise Social Network Analysis experience and using InFlow 3.0 Software are as follows: • Focus attention on the importance of tacit knowledge and intangible assets; • Uncover your best knowledge resources and conduits in the organization; • Lower cost through far better balance and use of existing resources; • Achieve fundamental improvements and speed in innovation and R&D; • Improve top-line performance by optimizing contribution of top performers; • Understand what happens in the white space in the organization chart; • Conduct 'what if' analysis before making organizational changes; • Identify assess security threats, vulnerabilities and other risks; • Plan intelligent redesign of office layout and social architectures; • Monitor, tune and optimize mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations; • Improve the evaluation and choice of alliance partners; • Gain a deeper understanding of your Communities of Practice; • Reveal the real experts in your enterprise and who has access to them; • Discover the holes in your information flows and knowledge exchanges; • Identify key connections that must not be broken in reorganizations or downsizing; • Develop existing and new leaders in agile and adaptive organizations; • Build and improve diversity through inclusion of women and minorities; • Identify emergent leaders and top performers; • Lead succession planning for key executives; • Improve the performance of virtual and far-flung teams; • Determine those to include in 360 performance/feedback surveys; • Establish productive dialogue among managers to foster/lead change; • Optimize knowledge ecosystems through better use of existing assets; • Expose knowledge bottlenecks, underperformers and overworked employees. Through a process of narrative, conversation and hands-on InFlow 3.0 Software workshop and practice, you will be able to quickly use and apply Enterprise Social Network Analysis to fundamentally advance the efficiency and effectiveness and all knowledge-based processes, innovations, organizations and ecosystems. Enterprise Social Network Analysis   Friday, February 25, 2005 8:00am - 5:00pm Special Notice: Tuition includes a fully-functional 75-node participant copy of InFlow Software. As usual, all materials, meals, refreshments, registration, shared services and other logistics are covered by your KM Cluster tuition. In addition, all participants also receive a complimentary copy of “The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations,” by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker. Time Interaction Speaker 8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and Registration Staff 9:00 - 11:00 Enterprise Social Network Analysis Valdis Krebs OrgNet 11:00 - 11:30 Participant Introductions Morning Break All 11:30 - 1:00 InFlow Software Valdis Krebs OrgNet 1:00 -2:00 Luncheon All 2:00 - 3:30 InFlow Hands-on Practice Workshop Valdis Krebs OrgNet 3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Refreshments All 4:00 - 5:00 Getting Started in Your Organization Valdis Krebs OrgNet 5:00 Adjournment