turning experience into advantage
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How can we make sure that the invaluable experience and know-how we share at international conferences like these gets turned into concrete business advantage? More specifically, how do you translate the intangible wealth of experience inside and outside your organization into big-time benefits to balance sheets? In this keynote given at J. Boye Philadelphia 13 and updated for J. Boye Aarhus 13, I tried to explain not only how to avoid pitfalls that other people have already encountered – and tackled successfully, but also on the broader perspective of supporting and encouraging these knowledge-sharing processes, and how to maximize the benefits. The talk is the first public presentation based on my upcoming book on this unexplored dimension of experience-swapping and knowledge-sharing, and I shared how I am developing and expanding this little-explored area of management, innovation, and organizational development.TRANSCRIPT
Turning Experience Into Advantage
Janus Boye
@janusboye
J. Boye Aarhus 13 [email protected]
November 5 #jboye13
The New World’s wheel
Vikings had their advantage
Welcome to
J. Boye Aarhus 13
A wilder ride than originally anticipated
”Human intelligence is richer and
more dynamic than we have been
led to believe by formal academic
education”
- Sir Ken Robinson
My hunger for learning
Rewind 15 years
Back in the 90s
Working in Munich
WWW7 in Brisbane
WWW8 in Toronto
Hypertext 99 in Darmstadt
Information becomes knowledge
and experience
wins
Knowledge becomes
experience
We’ve come a long way since 2005
It has taken me 10 years
”People don’t want a drill machine,
they want a hole in the wall”
- Philip Kotler
Let me ask you a question
Question:
What are the world’s 10 largest cities?
Question:
What are the world’s 10 largest cities
with a female mayor?
Question:
What are the world’s 10 largest cities
with a female mayor?
Which of those mayors is best at getting the job done?
A different perspective
”I’m really sorry, but I don’t see
the point of spending time or
money on something with no real
tangible benefit to me or the
business”
- A UK manager in late 2012
Taking experiment
out of change
Vast untapped reserves
Blood donation – visiting Stockholm
…and bringing home new insights
Working together
Sharing is caring
Turn up sharing
Enter:
Experiology
Turn up business advantage
Janus Boye
@janusboye
J. Boye Aarhus 13 [email protected]
November 5 #jboye13
Turning Experience
Into Advantage