Time: 8:00 - 9:30
Venue: Grand Hyantt, Hong Kong

Speaker: Alan Burton-Jones formerly UK Director of leading multinational British Oxygen's European computer services business, now operates an international management and IT consultancy practice based in Australia. Alan is a frequent speaker on the international conference circuit and regularly conducts seminars and workshops on learning and knowledge management in Australia, Asia and Europe.

Recent international conferences at which he has presented papers include: World Open Learning Conference Birmingham UK, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference Berlin, University of California Berkeley Knowledge Forum, IIM Pacific Rim Conference Australia, Australian Human Resource Institute National Conference, Australian Conference on KM for Decision Support Monash University Melbourne, and the Intellectual Capital Symposium in Tokyo. His writings are frequently published in leading professional and business journals.

Alan has led consultancy assignments on behalf of many leading international organisations, including Coca-Cola Amatil, Colonial Mutual Group, Fluor Daniel, ICI, Lumley Insurance, Unisys, Australia Post, and Queensland Government . He has also contributed to projects involving The Bank of England, Lloyds of London, Marks and Spencer, and McDonnel Douglas,

Alan is currently researching knowledge-based approaches to improving work organization and human resourcing practices in both private and public sector organizations. He is actively involved in KM projects throughout the Asia-Pacific Region and also acts as the Asia-Pacific Learning and KM Council Representative for The Conference Board of New York. He contributed to the development of the first national KM Framework published by Standards Australia in 2001.

His recent book, " Knowledge Capitalism: Business Work and Learning in the New Economy", (Oxford University Press 1999) was widely acclaimed by the business community and the Japanese translation( Nikkei 2001) was a business bestseller. It has also been chosen as a recommended text in a number of academic courses including the UK Open University's MBA program. (For further details and readers' comments, see: http://www.burton-jones.com.)

Costs: HK$290 including breakfast. Cheques should be made payable to the "HK Knowledge Management Society.

We have limited seats for this special event, seats are on a first come, first serve basis. If you wish to take part, please send an email to events@hkkms.org.

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