Board of Directors (BoD) meetings summary
BoD meeting: January 28th 2025
Participants: Alexander Zivkovic, Andreas Matern, Julia Frozza, Hideshi Sawaki, Kholane Chauke, Larizza Thurler, Manfred Bornemann, Moria Levy, Olga Smirnova, Pavel Kraus, Rajesh Dhillon, Rudolf D'Souza, Stuard French, Vadim Shiryaev, Ved Prakash, Vincent Ribiere.
The KMGN Board Meeting set the course for global KM leadership, emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and sustainability. Key 2024 achievements included 21 weeks of KM seminars, a successful Global KM Week, industry roundtables, and network expansion. In 2025, KMGN will focus on active engagement, leadership development, and shifting from competition to co-creation, guided by culture, sustainability, and strategic impact principles. Upcoming initiatives include the Annual KM Course (Feb 4), Research Community Meeting (Feb 26), Asia Roundtables (Mar 27), and Global KM Week (Oct 19-24). A major highlight is the KMGN Wiki Project, a collaborative knowledge-sharing platform offering practical KM insights.
1. Key Results 2024. Achievements & Outcomes
Leadership & Contributions – Special recognition for Faiz, whose contributions helped institutionalize KMGN, including launching the global HacKMthons and establishing the KMGN Secretariat.
Successful Events & Initiatives:
21 weeks of KM seminars with full documentation.
Global KM Week with over 100 events and activities.
Industry Roundtables & Talks providing interactive discussions on KM trends.
Website improvements, including a functional event calendar.
Support for the MIKE Award and increased global participation.
Presence in key KM conferences (GLINK, KM Summit, KM2Go, etc.).
Network Growth – Expansion into Hungary, with Finland and Italy as potential new members.
Internal Operations & Communication:
Strengthened collaboration across committees, including finance, IT, Google Workspace, Zoom, and YouTube.
Enhanced internal governance structures and operational efficiency.
KMGN 2025 Manifest.pdf2. Strategy & Vision for 2025
KMGN’s Vision – To become the global thought leader in KM, setting the agenda and inspiring individuals, organizations, and communities to leverage KM for business results and intellectual capital growth.
Mission – Advancing KM innovation and implementation, fostering global collaboration, and ensuring sustainable impact.
Strategic Priorities:
Shifting from registration to active membership, encouraging stronger engagement.
Developing new KM leaders to sustain momentum as veteran leaders retire.
Emphasizing collaboration over competition, promoting knowledge co-creation.
Guiding Principles:
Culture as the foundation – Knowing, Doing, Being Collaborative.
Breaking barriers – Beyond politics, religion, and divisions.
Co-ownership of projects – Driving KM for collective benefit.
Sustainability – Ensuring long-term impact and continued innovation.
Strategic Thinking – Achieving balanced short, mid, and long-term results.
3. Next Activities & Events
9. Regular activities and projects:
Annual KM Course – Launching on February 4, 2025.
KM Research Community Meeting – Scheduled for February 26, 2025.
Asia-Focused KM Roundtables – Happening on March 27, 2025.
KM Global Week 2025 – Confirmed for October 19-24, 2025.
KM Landscape 2025 – Started January, 24
10. Expansion of KM Sharing Events – A shift from one-time events to recurring global knowledge exchanges every two months.
11. Strengthening Digital Presence – Continued improvements in website, social media outreach, and governance structures.
12. Increasing Partnerships – Collaboration with external KM organizations and networks to drive joint projects.
4. KMGN Wiki Project: KM Tips & Tricks
13. Why the Wiki? – Members seek practical, actionable KM advice, yet existing resources are either outdated, scattered, or behind paywalls.
14. Purpose – Create a collaborative, community-driven knowledge base where members can share real-world experiences, best practices, and solutions.
15. How It Works:
Members ask questions and contribute answers, fostering an interactive learning environment.
Content is categorized by Tips & Tricks, Best Practices, Success/Failure Stories, and references to external KM resources.
A governance structure with voluntary editors to ensure quality and relevance.
16. Future Potential – The possibility of integrating AI-powered tools (e.g., a chatbot for KM queries) to enhance accessibility and usability.
17. Next Steps – Establishing the project leadership and launching a pilot version to gather feedback and refine functionality.
BoD meting: September 17th 2024
Participants: Ahmed Alfaddagi, Aino Kianto, Alexander Zivkovic, Andreas Matern, Chulatep Senivongse, Manfred Bornemann, Moria Levy, Olga Smirnova, Refiloe Mabaso, Vadim Shiryaev, Ved Prakash, Vincent Ribiere, Zoltán Pásztory.
The KMGN BOD Meeting focused on introducing new participants from Finland, Hungary, and Saudi Arabia and discussing the Knowledge Management Week (KM Week) preparations.
KMGN committees and supporters will ensure alignment between the global and country networks, so that local challenges and innovations are communicated and shared globally, and global initiatives are accessible to local KM practitioners.
Overview of KM Week Activities
Moria Levy provided a detailed overview of the KM Week, including its purpose, format, and the importance of global participation. important documents are the Miro Board https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVM8ECBVk=/ and a form to support the planning of events in the context of the KM Week https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17kY6QrwT9Cf-mBAdXq3aNKVprG7FgpQ--ce6fYmFGDc/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Both documents are subject to frequent changes and updates.
To support the communication efforts of KMGN on LinkedIn, X and other channels, we suggest to use #GlobalKMWeek to support handy connection of all activities. The KMGN Website will be updated to serve as a one stop shop for this great event.
Several countries and communities already committed support, such as Brazil, South Africa, USA, Thailand, Russia, Germany, Austria, Hungary, India and counting -
In three breakout groups, the participants worked on 4 pillars to support KM global week.
BoD meting: June 11th 2024
Participants: Ajda Turk, Alexander Zivkovic, Andreas Matern, David Williams, Faiz Selamat, Hary Febriansyah, Hideshi Sawaki, Larriza Thurler, Manfred Bornemann, Moria Levy, Olga Smirnova, Rajesh Dhillon, Refiloe Mabaso, Ritu Grover, Swapna Umakanth, Vadim Shiryaev, Ved Prakash, Vincent Ribiere, Sergey Voinov.
Links
Insights for Network Management
The next meeting is planned for September 17, 2024, including preparations for KM Week in October.
1. Review Role and Purpose of KMGN – new are and new potential of KM industry
Reinforcement of Knowledge Management (KM) as critical in integrating people and technology.
Exploring the promotion of KM at personal, team, organizational, and network levels. What are we doing now as individuals, and what can we do together? Various members shared their approaches to advocating for KM, including publications, events, and integrating KM into business practices. We've created a list of ideas about what we can do together: a sort of content that helps us elevate KM to a proper place, principles on how to collaborate better, and activities for promoting KM.
Based on this brainstorming, we will identify the projects for the second half of the year.
“Insights for Network Management” (FAQ) Project is delivering insights which will be shared in July
2. Digital Presence – Ideas on how to increase our awareness
KMGN has three main doors for communication:
LinkedIn (link)
Purpose – to be a STAGE where we share the achievements of our members and raise a discussion which drives KM industry forward
Sharing and discussing hints and tips on how to implement KM
Updates about KMGN and network members' activities
Google Website (link)
Purpose – designed to function as a WALL, where we collect and present critical messages about KMGN, our members, and our activities.
Explain and position who KMGN and our members are;
Shared knowledge base with all open-to-use materials, case studies, tools, etc.
WhatsApp (link)
Purpose – to be a CAFE, where establish a space for open collaboration (anybody can initiate discussion, activity or project around KM)
Discussion around specific projects or subjects (like ISO, AI, research, collaboration, etc.)
Publish Announcements, Share links to content
The next step we will do to update the KMGN website and network pages:
Regularly collect and publish info about your events with descriptions
Establish a process for networks to publish research summaries, articles, and other materials in a knowledge base.
Update the network’s pages and follow your requests – please share your vision about your pages.
Create a unified, collaborative platform for KMGN members to share resources, insights, and best practices.
We also appreciate your improvements and ideas. We would happily discuss ways to leverage international connections at the next BoD meeting.
3. Creative Commons as Strategy
Goal: Utilize Creative Commons licensing to facilitate open sharing and collaboration while explicitly respecting ownership and credits for creating content. We wish to be clear that the usual legal status for co-creation will be CC-BY.
Discussion: Encourage the use of open resources and shared tools to enhance KM practices across the network. Awareness creation was successful - further discussions as required