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Roundtable

Adding value with knowledge partnerships March 21, 2000

When information professionals in IT, content management, and human resources succeed in marketing their knowledge services to business units, demand often exceeds supply. Forming strategic partnerships with both internal and external organizations can help meet the need. But creating and sustaining viable partnerships can be tricky. In this roundtable, participants will explore the pros and cons, discuss the major issues, and share information about what works and what doesn't. See also previous roundtables.

The Society of Knowledge Base Publishers will hold a one-day roundtable at the Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA on March 21, 2000, to provide a forum in which participants can share information on this topic. This is not a training session, but an idea exchange for experienced practitioners. The session is being hosted by Mark Maybury, Executive Director of Mitre's Information Technology Division. Mitre has recently launched a "Knowledge Partners" program to create a "reserve work force" and allow organizations with similar interests to collaborate.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

• What kinds of knowledge partnerships are possible?

• What are the primary reasons for creating a partnership? 

• Is it possible to start small and deepen the partnership relationship over time? If so, how?

• What techniques do companies use to share intellectual assets in a partnership?

• Partnership accounting: how do the parties in a partnership calculate the value of their individual contributions and allocate the benefits?

• What kinds of organizations make the best partners -- and why?

• What are some examples of successful knowledge partnerships? What made them succeed?

• What additional/specialized services in expertise finding, knowledge mapping or knowledge integration are required in cross-organizational knowledge partnerships?

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