◥ University. {q} PhD. {e} Events. ⏫ THEMES. ⏫ KM. ⚫ UK. ⚫ England. ⬤ London. ⬛ BT. Knowledge Cafe at the BT Tower. I held one of my more interesting London Knowledge Cafes recently. I regularly hold Knowledge Cafes in London for my community members each month, usually in the evening. I find an organization who is willing to host one, a speaker and we are all set. They are totally free and for the last few months I have been getting 60 or so people along. But the one last week was a little different in that it was during the day and a somewhat grander affair. First, it was held in partnership with Sharon Darwent, Employee Engagement Manager at BT. It was held in the revolving restaurant at the top of the BT Tower in central London, Dave Snowden was the speaker and it was kicked off with a buffet lunch.
We started off in the restaurant at the top of the tower for lunch and then moved to the ground floor auditorium in a high speed lift. Dave, as ever, was his provocative self and I am sure set everyone in the audience thinking. We then ascended the Tower again to the restaurant for the Cafe itself. BT Tower Knowledge Cafe. Dave Snowden - Employee engagement. Alex Wilson - Slides. Conrad Taylor - conradiator - blog. My account of a talk that Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge gave at a Gurteen Knowledge Cafe event hosted at the Telecom Tower on 17 February 2009.
Rejecting ‘scientific management’ and ‘business process re-engineering’, Snowden advocates a new approach for organisations seeking to understand and cope with crisis and complexity. Dave Snowden at the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe at the BT Tower in London: 17 February 2009. Photo Conrad Taylor. 35 YEARS AGO, I lived in a commune at Wick Court, a Jacobean manor house situated between Bath and Bristol, which was then the head office and conference centre of the Student Christian Movement.
Another of the 17 or so communards was the SCM’s Chairman, Dave Snowden, a spare, bearded Welsh Marxist Catholic philosophy and physics graduate. Our paths separated after Wick Court. The topic for the day’s Cafe session was How can we best keep employees engaged in their work, in the current economic climate? Paradigm shifts in management thinking Stories and filters.