I don’t have slides for my time at the APQC in Houston, I was not slated to present, so no cool slide widget with my presentation in this post. I was merely there to observe and learn, and maybe answer some questions about POPS.
POPS was nominated as a best practice as part of NASA JPL’s overall efforts in Knowledge Management. The meeting at APQC was for all the nominees to give a short talk and to hear the overall findings of the study conducted by APQC, which in this case was on Expertise Location and Social Networking.
I got to see some great presentations by folks from IBM, Sun, Pratt-Whitney, Rockwell Collins, and Mitre and get a lot of insight into what they’re doing with Expertise Location and Social Networking; challenges they faced in the past, lessons learned, and what they’re doing now, and in the future, to continue their efforts in these areas.
It was a great experience, the people from APQC were fantastic, very friendly and put on a great event, and all the nominees and study partners, a group which included L3, Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil, and Wyeth, were all great and added a lot to the discussions.
Hopefully I get the chance to participate or work with APQC in the future.
