"All Aboard! Take a knowledge journey"

Be Spatial Keynote May 11, 2004

http://www.bontis.com/bontisbio.pdf

"All Aboard! Take a knowledge journey"
If you are primarily relying on IT to take care of your organization's
competitive advantage, and banking your success on traditional
educational, organizational and business models, you might be in
trouble. What IT needs to find out is that yesterday's 'logic of
success' doesn't automatically translate into tomorrow's 'logic of
success'. Is your firm aware of the following statistics?
* The average Fortune 500 Company loses $ 64 million dollars a year because of ineffective knowledge sharing.
* Employees who deal with knowledge spend in excess of 50% of their time looking for answers.
* Employees spend 20% of their time replicating answers for others in the same organization.
* Less than 20% of the codified knowledge available to an organization is actually utilized.
* Firms generally leverage 2% of their employees talent.
* Employees typically spend an average of 30 minutes a day dealing with e-mail SPAM.
Every company's bottom line suffers because the right organizational
knowledge is not applied to actions that ultimately determine the success or failure of the company. And even if organizational knowledge is applied to an action, that knowledge is not properly stored for reuse. Not only do we need to figure out how to manage all the information, best practices, systems and successes that are working for us today, we need to think beyond the boundaries of current practices, products, services, organizations and industries, to the creative and innovative ideas of tomorrow.
Dr. Bontis is recognized by the Editor of Harvard Business Review as "a pioneer and one of the real experts in intellectual capital." Maclean's
magazine has rated him as one of "McMaster University's most popular
business professors for five years in a row!"

In this keynote presentation, Dr. Bontis will take you through an inspirational knowledge journey during which you will be:
* predicting the future state of a knowledge-rich workplace,
* framing and advancing the fields of organizational learning and intellectual capital,
* conceptualizing organizational knowledge stocks and flows,
* developing a strategic perspective on knowledge management,
* determining what you can do tomorrow.

Visit these links for further background:
http://www.bontis.com
http://www.bontis.com/ic/testimonials.htm
http://www.bontis.com/research.htm
http://www.bontis.com/bontisonepager.pdf
http://www.bontis.com/bontiscoverstory.pdf
http://www.bontis.com/McMasterReview.pdf