[MNASIS-L] Impacting information flows in your organization Seminar

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The Minnesota SLA Chapter will host the November 10th SLA Virtual Seminar: 
"Impacting information flows in your organization"

Date:  Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Time:  1:00 - 2:30pm CT  (plan to arrive a few minutes early, because the
seminar starts promptly at 1pm)


Location:  Honeywell Technology Center    
           3660 Technology Drive
           Minneapolis, MN  55418

Cost:  $10 for SLA/ASIST members:  $15 for non-members  (Please make your
check
payable to "Minnesota Chapter SLA" and bring it with you to the seminar.

How to register:  Fill out the registration form below and send it by email
to
Jim Tchobanoff (jtchobanoff at bigfoot.com) or call Jim at 651 636-3738. 
Space is
limited, so register ASAP.  

Registrations will be handled in the order received and a confirmation
message
will be sent. 

[Please note that if you register, you are obligated pay for your seminar
attendance, whether or not you show up on the 5th]

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November 10th Virtual Seminar Registration Form:  


Your Name:


Your employer's name:


Phone number:


Email address: 


SLA/ASIST member:  yes  no
 

Do you need a receipt:  yes  no


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Thanks to Jane Kaufenberg for hosting the seminar at Honeywell.

Any questions, call Jim at 651 636-3738 or send an email
(jtchobanoff at bigfoot.com)
Jim Tchobanoff

Seminar information follows:
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      Impacting Information Flows in Your Organization

      November 10, 2004
      2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET  

Rob Cross, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of management at the University
of
Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. His research focuses on knowledge
creation and sharing and specifically how relationships and informal
networks in
organizations can provide competitive advantage in knowledge-intensive
work. 

Ideas emerging from this work have resulted in four book chapters and 18
articles, some of which have won awards at the Academy of Management. In
addition to top scholarly outlets, this work has been featured in such
venues as
Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management
Review,
Academy of Management Executive and Organizational Dynamics. He is also the
author of two books: Networks in the Knowledge Economy (Oxford University
Press)
and The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets
Done
in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press). Rob holds a PhD from
Boston
University and a BS and MBA from the University of Virginia. He speaks,
consultants and conducts executive education both domestically and
internationally.

Description
In today's flatter organizations work of significance demands effective
collaboration within and across functional, physical and hierarchical
boundaries. However, while often concerned with external relationships,
executives generally pay little attention to assessing and supporting
linkages
among employees within their own organizations. This presentation will
demonstrate why and how executives must pay attention to the health of
networks
within their organizations based on in-depth experience with over 60
organizations in the last five years. Specifically, this session will:

· Demonstrate the importance of networks in terms of performance
(organizational
and individual), learning, innovation and quality of work life.

· Provide case examples of strategic problems organizations uncover when
conducting a social network analysis and means of correcting them.

· Characterize networks of high performing individuals and provide
diagnostic
questions that people can apply to assess their own networks.

· Describe new work assessing energy in networks, both how it is created
and
transferred as well as its impact on performance and innovation.