Cloud Computing for Knowledge Management, Learning & Innovation

12 April 2013, 9:30am 5:30pm The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Cloud Computing has been gaining rapid adoption in the past few years and has started to generate transformational effects to many businesses and industries. However, the fundamentals of the Cloud are still not fully understood by many people. Indeed, many confined the Cloud to be merely some kind of on-demand IT infrastructure and as such principally leveraged by many organisations for cost savings, productivity enhancements, and applications consolidation. While it is certainly true that many of the critical issues involved in Cloud deployment, for example, deployment models, security of data, migration, service level agreements, cross border flow of information etc., still remain to be resolved, the full power of the Cloud is increasingly being seen as a revolutionary and disruptive business game changer. In particular, the Clouds impact on Knowledge Work and Business Innovations have not been fully realised.

Abstract
Up to now, much of the focus on the Cloud is on its ability to deliver scalable IT infrastructure thereby enabling an organisation to be more cost competitive and agile. There has been insufficient research into how the Cloud, together with the users, the connections and the embedded intelligence can deliver a paradigmatic shift to business model design, knowledge work, risk reduction and service innovations. This workshop will cover the Adolescent Cloud, the Knowledge Cloud, the Human Cloud, and the Intelligent Cloud and showcase how they can support Knowledge Work (which includes communications, collaboration, learning) and Service Innovations (which includes dynamic capabilities, co-creation of values, idea sourcing). Among others, concept and systems for Cloud-based Sourcing, Open Innovations and Competitions will be illustrated with examples. Participants will gain clear insights on how to leverage the Cloud for productivity gains, delegation of work, expertise location, collaboration, learning, idea sourcing, and to apply Cloudsourcing for risk reduction. This is not a technical workshop; it is business and application oriented.

Programmme
This workshop will cover: Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Differences between the Cloud and the Web The Adolescent Cloud, Knowledge Cloud The Intelligent Cloud, Human Cloud Connections in the Cloud
Clouds impact on KM Systems Crowdsourcing and Cloudsourcing Cloud-based Knowledge Services & X-a-a-S Community Building and Development Cloud-based Personal Learning Environment

Who Should Attend

Business Managers / Directors Knowledge/Innovation Managers Human Resources Professionals IT Directors / CIO

Learning and Development Professionals Marketing Directors Researchers Librarians Recruitment Officers

Biography of the FACILITATOR

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Prof. Eric Tsui, Professor & Associate Director , Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Eric Tsui was Chief Research Officer, Asia Pacific and Innovation Manager at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) between 2000 and 2005 and currently a Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He practices and carries out research in, among others, Knowledge Management technologies, taxonomy creation and maintenance, knowledge communities, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). He leads the teaching, supervision and delivery of consultancy services in all technology-related subjects and projects in the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre (KMIRC), and co-delivers the subject Knowledge-Based Service Innovation (KBSI). He was for 5 years Innovation Manager at Australian Mutual Provident (AMP) and Maybank (Malaysia). Professor Tsui is a member of the CIGREF Foundation (France) ISD programme committee specialising on Web 2.0, a member of the AIIM (USA) advisory board on Enterprise 2.0, a research advisor to the Artificial Intelligence Cluster at MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia), an honorary advisor in KM for the HK Police College and a member of the Technology Assessment Sub-Committee in the Hospital Authority. In the past 7 years, he has custom designed and delivered numerous workshops on KM technologies, enterprise portals, collaboration tools, Web/Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, and Personal KM. A member of both the Australian and Hong Kong Computer Societies, he has B.Sc. (Hons.), PhD and MBA qualifications.

Registration Fee Regular Fee: HK$1,400 KMIRC member: HK$1,120

*Registration fee covers handout, refreshments and lunch **Medium of instruction: English
Please fill in online registration form on KMIRC website http://kmirc.ise.polyu.edu.hk/events.php and send a crossed cheque made payable to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in HK dollars to: Miss Cuby Chow Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon

Enquiries: Miss Cuby Chow (Tel: 3400 3158, Email: cuby.chow@polyu.edu.hk)