Maps, Concepts, Process - Tools for Innovation

I was recently invited to present at the monthly Thursday afternoon meeting of the KM Forum, on topics relating to Mindmapping, and with a specific twist towards Knowledge Management and Innovation Management.

If you are in the Boston area, I would recommend sitting in on these sessions - the KM Forum is an organization of practitioners and thought-leaders in Knowledge Management that has been operating in the Boston area for some time now. Great people (saw some old friends), and really interesting discussions come about.

I decided to take my "hyper keynote" style a step further, and created a 130 slide deck, which ended up at about a 45 minute presentation. I've posted it via slideshare.net, and embedded it below. It holds together fairly well without voiceover, but I'll be working on an alternative version to set some more of the context.

The purpose overall of the presentation was to provide a wide view of the types of tools and methodologies that an individual could use, that teams could use, and that organizations as a whole could use. Borrowed from my background in semantic/conceptual search and auto-classification, business process analysis, mindmapping, brainstorming and winnowing techniques, visualization techniques, and innovation from a number of angles. It was a blast for me - and we had some nice discussion afterwards.

Would love any feedback based on the slide deck as it stands, and the experiences of people using any of these tools and techniques. This is an ongoing area of interest for me, and am always looking for deeper, richer information on what others are doing. Luckily, in the 40+ podcasts I've done over the last year, and my experiences of the last 13 years or so, I had quite a fountain of knowledge to pull from, which made the presentation actually quite easy to pull together.

Let's discuss - and share how you're solving problems, and creating new products/services/opportunities within your organization.

Link to presentation "Knowledge = Innovation" on slideshare.net.

Embedded version:

Comments

[Ben Tremblay]

p.s. to be fair I'll also mention FreeMind, irKM, Protege and for completeness Araucaria.

[Ben Tremblay]

*reverse order; I was reading app names off my desktop and clicked Preview!*

Fabulous ... I look forward to paging through your presentation.

I've here linked to my scratch-pad blog rather than my usual blog or site ... it started as I was doing a survey of concept mapping methodologies and systems. CMap, Compendium, Rationale. (Ever peek Belvedere? A prof in Hawaii ... I wish he'd continued to press forward with it.)

BTW: is it just me or is SlideShare showing up a lot more often recently?

[Dan Keldsen]

Ben - thanks for the additional comments. I do show some example CMap created Concept Maps in the presentation - and I believe they are called out as such.

Thanks for mentioning other solutions, I have a good dozen of these available on my laptop, though not plugged into all that you've mentioned.

Concept mapping has some great parallels to other aspects of information organization, classification, re-use, and of course, innovation. Hopefully some of that comes across in the presentation - although without full audio over top, it will definitely be somewhat less than 100% of the story I'd presented live.

And yes, it does seem SlideShare is growing in popularity. If they could more easily (or at all) capture transitions, embedded videos, and the richer side of multimedia, that would be even better, but it's quite handy as it stands.