ECKM 2017 – Pre Conference Workshop at the: 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management 7-8 September 2017, Barcelona, Spain

Wednesday 6th of September 14:00 – 17:00

“Assessment of Knowledge Risk and its Mitigation” Presented by - Professor Rongbin W.B. Lee, KMIRC, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Miss Haley W.C. Tsang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Most Knowledge Management (KM) programs emphasize on the importance of capturing, retaining and sharing of organizational knowledge among its stakeholders. As the beneficial effect of these process could not be felt immediately, there is often a lack of priorities and urgency allocated to knowledge management initiatives from the senior management. To overcome such lack of incentives to implement KM, another focus is on the assessment of knowledge risks and its disastrous effect on the daily operation of a company. A tool is introduced to assess the knowledge risk factors of companies systematically and reliably. In

the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to participate in the assessment of knowledge risk in his/her organization. Industrial cases on how to mitigate knowledge risks in organizations are also introduced. Workshop outcomes/learning points - Understand various types of knowledge risk factors and its assessment. - A trial on evaluating knowledge risks by the workshop participants - Briefing on case studies conducted - Familiar with methods to prevent or reduce knowledge risks for business sustainability

Professor Rongbin W.B. Lee Professor Lee is the Chair Professor and Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has pioneered research and practice of knowledge management in various industrial sectors in Hong Kong. Professor Lee and his team have launched Asia’s first on-line MSc. program in Knowledge

Management, as well as the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) Award in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Miss Haley W.C. Tsang Miss Tsang graduated with a double degree – BEng (Hons) in Industrial and Systems Engineering and BBA (Hons) with a major in Marketing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is currently conducting a knowledge risk assessment project for companies in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Workshop Application details: The workshop will be held at Universitat, Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona on Wednesday 6th of September from 14:00 – 17:00 - the day before ECKM 2017. The cost of attending each workshop is £30 for participants registered for the European Conference on Knowledge Management and £60 for anyone wishing to participate who is not attending the conference. To reserve a place on this workshop contact: Elaine Hayne: elaine@academic-conferences.org