Looking ahead

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Ark Group’s KCUK [Knowledge & Content UK] event in London, which was chaired by our very own columnist, David Gurteen, and featured presentations from the likes of Dave Snowden, Richard McDermott and several well-known UK and international organisations.

One interesting theme that came out of a highly motivational speech by storytelling consultant Tony Quinlan, was that of best practice – as in, how can following ‘best practice’ inspire learning and innovation? Surely the most useful lessons that we learn are those that follow failure – an understanding of what went wrong, why, and how to prevent it in the future? Thought-provoking stuff and I would certainly be interested in hearing what you have to say on the matter.

With that in mind, we’re looking forward to bringing you a ‘bumper’ KCUK issue in August. A couple of the presenters – Bonnie Cheuk and Nick Davies – have already made it into this issue, but the IK desk is literally heaving under the weight of articles and feedback from the conference and we couldn’t have squeezed them all in this month – even with a large shoehorn!

We’ll be including case studies from the Carbon Trust and Deloitte, along with coverage of the topics being dealt with at the ‘KM Clinic’… lots to look forward to.

We’re always eager to hear your views, so if anything in these pages whets your appetite, or you would like to put pen to paper – or, rather, finger to keyboard – on any other subject (or would like us to) then do get in touch.

In the meantime I hope that you enjoy this issue. Have a great summer and we’ll see you again in August.

Kate Clifton
Head of Editorial