Keynote speech 1

“Future Center

     - Transformation into Sustainable Knowledge Enterprises”

Speaker :

　Takahiro NOMURA

　Senior Manager, KDI(Knowledge Dynamics Initiative), Fuji Xerox, Japan

Keynote speech 2

“Is the Organizational Computer a Digital Nervous System?”

Speaker :

　Mark Stefik

　Research Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center, USA

Abstract

Keynote speech 1 :

“Future Center

     - Transformation into Sustainable Knowledge Enterprises”

Most global enterprises cannot envision their future without considering sustainability. It's difficult for top managements to express their visions clearly if they work in isolation. These enterprises should be learning organizations that foster all employees to gather their knowledge, and to envision their social goals. I defined the concept of the Sustainable Knowledge Enterprise Model, which is a new management

language to learn sustainably internally, and to achieve social innovation for global sustainability. The first step to be a Sustainable Knowledge Enterprise is to believe the new performance index of the Change Productivity, which is defined as the speed of change in an organization, to motivate employees to challenge complex problems. I also introduce a new concept of knowledge-creating space, which is called Future Center. Future Center is a new platform for solving complex problems through dialogue among diverse stakeholders. Future Center strongly drives companies to be a Sustainable Knowledge Enterprise, as well as contributes to create the new generation of Knowledge Management.

Keynote speech 2 :

“Is the Organizational Computer a Digital Nervous System?”

Over the past three years I have been challenged in creating  three information systems with colleagues in three very different areas. One system supported the curation and personalization of news; another will help hospitals improve care by coordinating healthcare providers and simplifying the delivery and recording of medical information; a third will help make cities more livable with radically improved services around parking. All of these systems enable people to effectively interact with each other. All of them embody or will embody organization learning. None of these systems would have been practical to create a few years ago. This talk is about the questions we are asking ourselves as we design and field these systems, where their power comes from, how they are being created by multi-disciplinary technology teams and ethnographers, how we are managing, prioritizing and accelerating the project innovations, and what we are learning from them.