Since summer 2008, the organisation "Yorkshire Universities" organises a set of workshops for exploring ways of re-shaping the Knowledge Transfer activities. I had been invited to this workshop series, but had not been able to attend the two previously held workshops (July and September).
This Tuesday the workshop was targeted towards discussing companies which would be good to visit, to learn about their way of dealing with knowledge transfer. Ceri Williams, Director of Knowledge Transfer for the Yorkshire Universities, had asked participants to select up to 3 suitable companies from a list which the participants had compiled at the last workshop. On top came "Smith & Nephew", followed by "Reckitt Benckiser". As the discussion revealed, these companies are examples of well established KT schemes. However, workshop organisers had more in mind to visit a company which "did things differently". Possibly a museum would be a good choice, also Opera North was a strong contender.
Following Gary Hamel's and Bill Breen's book "The Future of Management", it was disscussed how KT can be organised in new ways, allowing a more market-oriented and democratic process, involving all stakeholders.
At the next meeting on 19.November, the selection of the company to visit will be finalised.
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