IRC

Internet Reality Check

5:30 pm Thursday, 15 April 1999

Board Room, National Press Club, Canberra

Topic: Knowledge Management - Competitive Intelligence?

Special Guests: Katherine Smith, Worldwide Knowledge Management Solution Manager, Lotus (USA) & Christophe Dumonet, Knowledge Management Practice Manager, Lotus Professional Services, Asia Pacific

Katherine Smith and Christophe Dumonet will be in Canberra to speak on "Developing Strategic Information and Leveraging Knowledge into Actionable Competitive Intelligence": It is intelligence, not information that enables management to respond with the right market, policy or long term decision. Every organisation possesses a wealth of data, but many do not develop this data into intelligence.

Katherine Smith is the Worldwide Knowledge Management Solution Manager, Lotus Professional Services. Katherine holds a key position on Lotus' KM Advisory Board which sets product and services strategy for Lotus and IBM. Katherine received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Katherine is a member of SCIP, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

Christophe Dumonet is the Head of the Knowledge Management Practice of Lotus Professional Services Asia Pacific. He specialises in developing solutions in the area of Document Management, Information Management, Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management. He completed a MBA at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His formal education includes a Master of Science (Engineering/Computing Science) where he specialised in Expert Systems for the Petroleum Industry. He actively contributes to the Worldwide Knowledge Management Solutions Group based at Lotus Headquarters in Cambridge (USA) and is a member of the Australian Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP Aust.).

Join Katherine and Christophe to discuss:

Is it intelligence, not information that enables management to respond with the right market, policy or long term decision?
How do organisations develop a wealth of data into intelligence?
Can groupware and messaging products evolve into software which enable organisations to transform data into information into intelligence and knowledge?

IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the special guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)

Lotus's will also present a seminar on Thursday 15th April 1999 - 10am-12pm at the National Press Club on "COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE". For details contact Tony Maple, Engagements Manager, Lotus Professional Services - Canberra, Phone: 02.6269.2307 Mobile: 0413.132.259 Email:Tony_Maple@lotus.com