"Thoughts on Knowledge Management" Discussion

Bern | Date: Tuesday 27.01.2026 | 17:30 Networking and apéro at Restaurant Grosse Schanze | 18:15 Roundtable - 20:00
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Past Events

SKMF Online | 21.10.2025

KM Storytelling Canvas for Executive Buy-in

This roundtable introduces you to a tool for aligning Knowledge Management (KM) with your organisation's business strategy. Use the KM Storytelling Canvas as a practical approach to connect KM actions with the strategic and individual objectives of your executives, thus securing their buy-in.

Storytelling is a powerful method to introduce ideas. KM must demonstrate clear and measurable business value. This can be, for example, improving competitiveness, profitability, and sustainability. KM must align with these goals.

Learn how you can make them an important promoter of your KM programme.

After this roundtable you will:

• Understand what the KM Storytelling Canvas is and how best to use it
• Be able to apply guidelines to help you optimize your KM story
• Persuade management about the value of KM in your organization

Join us for this exciting roundtable. The discussion will be held in English.

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Geneva | 17.10.2025

From Creative Friction to Living Ecosystems

What happens when your best experts retire, your teams work in isolation, and breakthrough ideas die in meeting rooms, or worse, in forgotten databases? 

Most organizations treat knowledge as something to protect and control, yet the companies creating real innovation today do the opposite - they turn knowledge into a living ecosystem where ideas flow freely and multiply through collaboration. This session, inspired by the most compelling insights from the KMGN - Knowledge Management Global Network 2025 Course, will reveal to participants how sustainable competitive advantage comes from connection, not protection.

Drawing from KMGN's breakthrough frameworks, we explore Arthur Shelley's Creative Friction model showing how controlled collision between different expertise domains sparks innovation. You will discover three powerful methods for transformation: KISMET (how Knowledge, Intelligence, Skills, Motivation, Environment, and Tenacity combine for innovation), the One Degree of Separation approach (connecting everyone in your organization directly), and Deliberating Structures that turn conflict into creative solutions.

We examine two transformative cases: Bergen's Hanseatic traders who created Europe's most successful trading network through radical openness, and Krasnoyarsk's restaurant community where competitors discovered that sharing their best recipes and techniques elevated the entire regional cuisine, attracting more customers for everyone. In structured table workshops, you will select and apply one of these methods to your organization's actual challenges, evaluating both the opportunities and the realistic barriers to implementation in your specific context.

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Partner Events | 19.09.2025

Partner Event with SAQ Zentralschweiz: The Power of Knowledge Management

SKMF is partnering with the Swiss Association of Quality (SAQ) Zentralschweiz to co-host the event "The Power of Knowledge Management":

Many organisations face the challenge of providing employees with the knowledge they need in a timely manner. Here, a distinction must be made between tacit and explicit knowledge. Knowledge management not only encompasses strategies and practices for capturing, storing, sharing and utilising knowledge, but also aims to create the necessary framework conditions.

We will discuss the following questions in the lecture:

• What is knowledge? What is the difference between tacit and explicit knowledge?
• What is knowledge management and in what forms can we practise it?
• What added value can we all achieve if we share our knowledge within our organisation?
• What can each of us contribute?
• Which success factors are decisive?
• Which IT solutions does Siemens use to support company-wide knowledge management?

Agenda
14:15: Welcome by the Board
14:20: Presentation, Part 1: Data, information, knowledge, knowledge management
15:15: Coffee break
15:30: Presentation, Part 2: Tool-supported knowledge management at Siemens
16:30: Networking and exchange with apero

Participation in this hybrid event is possible both face-to-face and online (please specify when registering). Presentations and discussions will be held in German.

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