sdclan

An Interview
with Katharina Conradin, regiosuisse

Manuel Flury: Katharina, you are one of the moderators of the regiosuisse knowledge communities. What is regiosuisse?

Katharina Conradin: regiosuisse is the network unit for regional development in Switzerland. It supports people involved in regional development with practice-oriented knowledge management. regiosuisse offers various concerted services so that the knowledge about regional development can be developed, acquired and exchanged – the knowledge communities are one of those. (more…)

By Adrian Gnägi

This is the first post in a series focusing on network face-to-face events.

In October 2008 SDC changed its organizational structure: the former geographical/thematic matrix structure was changed into a single line operational structure. Thematic networks were created to exchange and capitalize experience. Until May 2010, 4 of the new networks had held their first face-to-face (f2f) meeting. This post sketches 6 issues which merit reflection when preparing and planning for future f2f events:

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By Manuel Flury
SDC’s  “Knowledge Management and Instutitional Learning” Evaluation (2009) was clear about it: Metrics, process orientation, a knowledge framework will bring SDC forward in “sharing and learning”. In addition, a somewhat mysterious term reappears: “incentive”. We know a lot about what “incites” collaborators to share, to ask questions or not to do so and we and up saying: It needs a cultural change. Who shapes the organisational culture in this direction and what triggers such a dynamic? In the discussion among the Knowledge Management for Development Community in July and August 2009, Nancy White proposes to build on innovative people that might trigger new ways of learning in the organisation and have support from the managers. In the same spirit, Steve Glovinsky suggests to work with tuned-in decision-makers to get Knowledge Management institutionalised to an extent that new managers won’t have the chance “to mess things up”.

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