Assignment KM - KM Process Cycle

Once done with our World Café assignment, we've been assigned with another assignment. We need to defined each ways and tools in KM Process Cycle that relates with our environment. We then brain storm within our team members and get some inputs from other team as well. So here what we've produced.

Assignment KM - World Café

We've been assigned an assignment to draw a KM solution base on out environment study case by using a World Café method.

By the way, what is World Café?

the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world.

Method:

World Café can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs. Specifics of context, numbers, purpose, location, and other circumstances are factored into each event's unique invitation, design, and question choice, but the following five components comprise the basic model:

1) Setting: Create a "special" environment, most often modelled after a café, i.e. small round tables covered with a checkered tablecloth, butcher block paper, colored pens, a vase of flowers, and optional "talking stick" item. There should be four chairs at each table.

2) Welcome and Introduction: The host begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to the World Café process, setting the context, sharing the Cafe Etiquette, and putting participants at ease.

3) Small Group Rounds: The process begins with the first of three or more twenty minute rounds of conversation for the small group seated around a table. At the end of the twenty minutes, each member of the group moves to a different new table. They may or may not choose to leave one person as the "table host" for the next round, who welcomes the next group and briefly fills them in on what happened in the previous round.

4) Questions: each round is prefaced with a question designed for the specific context and desired purpose of the session. The same questions can be used for more than one round, or they can be built upon each other to focus the conversation or guide its direction.

5) Harvest: After the small groups (and/or in between rounds, as desired) individuals are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group. These results are reflected visually in a variety of ways, most often using graphic recorders in the front of the room.

cited from : http://www.theworldcafe.com/ibank.html

Document Publishing : Recommendation

Google Apps provide better collaboration from within the apps themselves. Both allow real-time editing with multiple users simultaneously. Google Apps also is the best value and it delivers equivalent functionality sufficient for most small and medium-size organizations.

DOCUMENT PUBLISHING – THINKFREE ONLINE OFFICE (TOOL4)

PRODUCT 4: THINKFREE ONLINE OFFICE

Tools Description

ThinkFree Online is a web-based edition that runs Write, Calc, Show and Note in a browser using a mix of Java applet and Ajax technologies. It is free to use for a 30 day trial period, except for users in Australia and New Zealand,[1][2] where only paid members of BigPond may use the service. A way around this is to click on the already have account button at the start page and then click sign up.

 

Each user is allotted 1 GB of online storage space for saving documents. ThinkFree Online lets users collaborate on documents with others, publish to a blog or the web. ThinkFree Online also keeps a version history per document of the changes that are made.

The Java applet version, or Power Edit mode, exists for all three applications, and appears to be an applet port of the original desktop versions written in Java. Ajax-based Quick Edit mode (offered for Write and Show only) can run without the need of starting up an applet. Also, ThinkFree Online supports a synchronization manager utility to keep documents on the desktop, online and mobile workspaces automatically updated.

Type of License : PROPRIETARY

DOCUMENT PUBLISHING – OFFICE 365 (TOOL3)

PRODUCT 3: OFFICE 365

Tools Description

Microsoft Office Web Apps is a web-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. It includes the web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. The web applications allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a web browser as well as share files and collaborate with other users online

Office Web Apps is available to its customers via three channels:

• Consumers are able to access Office Web Apps through SkyDrive, Hotmail, Docs.com and Facebook Messages

• Microsoft Office Volume Licensing customers are able to host Office Web Apps on-premises on a server running Sharepoint Foundation 2010 or Sharepoint Server 2010

• Businesses, corporations and educational institutions are also able to host Office Web Apps using a subscription-based Microsoft Online Services, Live@edu or Office 365

Type of License : FREEWARE

DOCUMENT PUBLISHING – ZOHO OFFICE SUITE (TOOL2)

PRODUCT 2: ZOHO OFFICE SUITE

Tools Description

The Zoho Office Suite is a Web-based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, customer relationship management (CRM), project management, invoicing, and other applications developed.

Zoho uses an open Application Programming Interface for its Writer, Sheet, Show, Creator, Meeting, and Planner products. It also has plug ins into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, an OpenOffice.org plug in, and a plug in for Firefox.

Type of License : PROPRIETARY

DOCUMENT PUBLISHING – GOOGLE DOCS (TOOL1)

PRODUCT 1: GOOGLE DOCS

Tools Description

Google Docs is a free, Web-based office suite and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of files up to 1 GB total in size was introduced on January 13, 2010, but has since been increased to 10 GB, documents using Google Docs native formats do not count towards this quota

Type of License : FREEWARE