Industry Talks

• “How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process?” Project Management Institute (PMI), Services & Outsourcing Special Interest Group (SIG), Webinar (June, 2009).
• “iSchools and Innovation: The Institute for Innovation in Information Management,” PACCAR, Renton, Washington (January, 2009).
• “The Future of Strategic Sourcing: The Innovation Agenda,” Conference of the Harvard Business Review Polska and the Outsourcing Institute, Warsaw, Poland (November, 2008).
• “Crafting Organizational Innovation Processes: Lessons for Optimizing R&D Organizations,” Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington (October, 2008).
• “Human Intelligence Operations in CI: Managing Knowledge Security,” Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals - Puget Sound Chapter, Redmond, Washington (October, 2008).
• “Crafting Sustainable Innovation Programs,” BSG (Africa), Johannesburg, South Africa (August, 2008).
• “Sustainable Innovation for Emerging Markets,” First National Bank (FNB), Johannesburg, South Africa (August, 2008).
• “Can You Keep a Secret? How to Keep Your Competitors from Learning What You Know,” Annual Meeting of the Special Libraries Association, Spotlight Session, Seattle, Washington (June, 2008).
• “Leveraging Ideas for Organizational Innovation,” Trimo, Ljubljana, Slovenia (August, 2008).
• “Global Preponderance,” Bled Strategic Forum: European Union 2020: Enlarging and Integrating, Bled, Slovenia (August, 2007).
• “Demystifying the Link between Innovation and Business Value: A Process Framework,” Management Roundtable (MRT), Waltham, Massachusetts, (July, 2007).
• “Organizational Innovation Processes: The case of 3M,” APQC’s 12th Annual Knowledge Management Conference and Training: Knowledge Management and Innovation, Houston, Texas, (May, 2007).
• “Demystifying the Link between Innovation and Business Value,” Symposium: Demystifying the Business Value of Innovation, Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M), The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, (April, 2007).
• “Contradictions in Innovation: The Critical Role of Librarians,” Pacific Northwest Chapter, Special Libraries Association, Seattle, Washington, (March, 2007).
• “Turning Ideas into Reality: The Action Agenda,” American Productivity Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (March, 2007).
• “Embedding Innovation Strategies and Tactics,” American Productivity Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (March, 2007).
• “Building the Institute for Intelligence and National Security: The UW Experience,” Intelligence Community (IC) Academic Centers of Excellence Meeting, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, College Park, Maryland, (March, 2007).
• “Industry Innovation Best Practices,” Airplane Product Development 2007 Offsite, Boeing Corporation, Seattle, Washington, (January, 2007).
• “Centers for Academic Excellence: National Security Education and Research,” Intelligence Community (IC) Academic Centers of Excellence Meeting, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, College Park, Maryland, (November, 2006).
• “Crafting Organizational Innovation Processes,” American Productivity and Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (October, 2006).
• “Leveraging Ideas for Organizational Innovation,” Symposium: Enabling Innovation across Boundaries, Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M), The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, (October, 2006).
• “Innovation Perspectives: A Panel Discussion,” ¬Panel Moderator, Symposium: Enabling Innovation across Boundaries, Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M), The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, (October, 2006).
• “Strategic Sourcing of Innovations: A Strategic Capability,” 5th Annual International Smart-Sourcing Conference, Los Angeles, California (September, 2006). [Keynote]
• “Organizational Knowledge Management Capabilities,” Workforce Performance 2006 Conference: Learning, Knowledge & Performance Management, Las Vegas, Nevada (September, 2006).
• “Driving Organizational Innovation,” MAK Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, (August, 2006).
• “Re-Structuring the Intelligence Community: Some Thoughts,” Aptima, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, (August, 2006).
• “Intellectual Asset Management: Issues and Opportunities,” UBS AG, Chicago Branch, Chicago, Illinois, (August, 2006).
• “Covert Competitive Intelligence Operations,” Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals – Boston Chapter Meeting, Waltham, Massachusetts, (June, 2006).
• “Panel: Seattle Insight: Security as an Enabler: How Good Security Can Improve Your Business,” The ITEC SolutionBuilder Conference, Seattle, Washington, (June, 2006).
• “Covert Competitive Intelligence Operations,” 2nd Annual National Intelligence Conference and Exposition, Bethesda, Maryland, (May, 2006).
• “Guidelines for Sharing Knowledge with Competitors: Coopetition,” APQC's Eleventh Knowledge Management Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, (May, 2006).
• “Key Issues in IM/KM on the Executive Agenda,” ¬Panel Moderator, Symposium: Knowledge Management in Turbulent Times, Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M), The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, (April, 2006).
• “Enterprise Risk Management: A Focus on Intellectual Assets,” Society for Information Management (SIM) – Seattle Chapter, Bellevue, Washington, (March, 2006).
• “Creating, Managing, and Deploying Intellectual Assets: Strategic Intranets,” Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, New York, (February, 2006).
• “The Agile Organization: Some Thoughts, Some Questions, Some Answers,” Evidence Based Research Inc., Vienna, Virginia, (January, 2006).
• “Leveraging Knowledge with Customers and Suppliers: The Case of TATA Steel,” American Productivity and Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (January, 2006).
• “Leveraging Knowledge across the Value Chain,” American Productivity and Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (January, 2006).
• “Building Sustainable Knowledge Management Programs,” Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, Colorado, (December, 2005).
• “KM Capabilities,” Ninth Annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference, San Jose, California, (November, 2005).
• “Building an Early Warning Virtual Crisis Center” 73rd Meeting of the Midwest Contingency Planners, Indianapolis, Indiana, (October, 2005).
• “Knowledge Management and the Extended Enterprise: Leveraging Knowledge from External Sources,” American Productivity and Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (September, 2005).
• “Evaluating Knowledge Management,” Hewlett Packard, Presentation at the KM Leads Bi-Weekly Call, (August, 2005).
• “Engaged Knowledge Management,” KnowledgeBoard, Meet the Authors-Online Web Conference (KnowledgeBoard.com), (August, 2005).
• “Mindful Crisis Management,” Contingency Planners of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio (August, 2005).
• “Why Leverage Knowledge across the Value Chain? The Value Proposition,” Web Seminar for the American Productivity and Quality Center, Houston, Texas, (July, 2005).
• “Plug-and-Play Knowledge Management,” KM Association of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (July, 2005).
• “Information Management in Complex and Uncertain Times: Appreciating the Complexity in Information Management,” Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Association of Contingency Planners (ACP), Washington, District of Columbia, (June, 2005).
• “Appreciating the Complexity in Information Management,” Business Resumption Planners of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (May, 2005).
• “Simulating Disaster Scenarios,” Business Continuity Planners Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, (May, 2005).
• “Informing Crisis Management and Continuity Planning: Lessons from Mission Critical Operations Centers,” Great Lakes Business Recovery Group, Livonia, Michigan, (May, 2005).
• “KM and the Extended Enterprise,” Panelist, The Expanding Presence of Knowledge Management - APQC's Tenth Knowledge Management Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, (May, 2005).
• “Emerging New Threats to Regulations Compliance: How Spyware, Trojans and Other Vulnerabilities Undermine Sox, HIPAA and other Regulations,” Panelist, Security & Technology Online Conference – Security in the Era of Regulations, (April, 2005).
• “Managing Information in Complex Organizations,” 20th Annual International Conference Meeting of the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), Chicago, Illinois, (April, 2005).
• “Managing Informational Signals for Crisis Prevention,” Mid Penn Chapter of Association of Contingency Planners (ACP), Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, (March, 2005).
• “The Semiotics of Information Assurance,” Information Integrity Coalition, Chicago, Illinois, (June, 2003).