Publications and links

Here's a list of some of my books, magazine articles, presentations and links to useful discussion boards.

Books

Learning to Fly:  Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning organisations

The follow up to the bestselling original...

Much expanded, the story goes beyond BP to include the experiences of the large organisations like the BBC, De Beers, US Army, United Nations and Centrica... and smaller organisations like Tear Fund and a primary school in Australia. It includes a free CDRom with resources.

"This book goes beyond providing practical techniques for sharing knowledge. It provides a participatory approach to learning. People take responsibility and solve their own problems, by learning from others. It has caused us to rethink our whole approach to capacity building."
Marcel Boisard, Executive Director, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research

"Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell show how new ideas and tools are making working and learning inseparable in one of the world's most innovative large companies."
Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, MIT

"Collison and Parcell compellingly demonstrate how the combination of sharing behaviours, smart processes and enabling technology have made BP a world leader in knowledge management."
Steve Ballmer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft

Magazine articles

MIS ASIA February 2007
Can you put a dollar sign to KM?   

Geoff Parcell talks to Sheila Lam about measuring KM projects. Some of the responses are not quite what I thought I said or intended!

Inside Knowledge Nov 2005
The knowledge: Geoff Parcell

There can't be many knowledge managers who aren't but a little envious of the initiatives Geoff Parcell has championed and been involved in during his time at BP, the United Nations and beyond. Not only has he had a front-line role in shaping the oil and gas company into what many consider to be the knowledge-management benchmark, but he is also using this experience to support the global fight against some of the world's most destructive viruses and diseases .

Portal KMOL online, Portugal August 2005
Interview with Ana Neves   

including my favorite books!

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation October 2005
Learning to Fly in a world of information overload.  

An interview on Knowledge Management applied to Health

Inside Knowledge 14 Mar 2005
CASE STUDY: UNAIDS

Applying knowledge-management techniques to help combat the spread of the HIV virus. By Geoff Parcell

Inside Knowledge 17 Feb 2005
Running on empty? Maintaining momentum as KM matures

Securing the resources and support to launch a KM programme is a huge a challenge in any organisation, but just as difficult is sustaining momentum once the initiative reaches a certain level of maturity. Focusing on recent events that suggest something of a midlife crisis for KM at the World Bank, Jerry Ash looks at the issue of KM sustainability and reports on a number of case histories that demonstrate both the possibilities and the pitfalls.

Knowledge Management Review January/February 2005 , Volume 7, Issue 6
AIDS competence: saving lives with KM 

Geoff Parcell, senior KM advisor at BP
Can you take an approach that has saved millions of dollars for energy company BP and use it to save lives? That's the challenge Geoff Parcell faced during an 18-month secondment to the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), and the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS) to help build and spread the knowledge of AIDS.

Learning to Fly: review of one day Gurteen Bizmedia conference with Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell by Ed Mitchell of Knowledge Board  2 December 2004, Hammersmith, London

Sharing Knowledge at the AIDS Competence Programme
Case Study by Seth Kahan written forJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2004

Inside Knowledge   
Learning before doing 30 Jun 2003

In this first of a three-part series, Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell from BP draw on their experience – and their recently published book, Learning to Fly – to describe the first of three practical tools for learning, before, during and after any business activity. This month's article explains the ‘peer assist' process, the main tool used by BP to facilitate ‘learning before doing'.

Learning while doing 30 Jul 2003
In the second article of a three-part series, Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell draw on their experience – and their recently published book Learning to Fly – to describe another of their practical tools for learning, before, during and after any business activity. This month's article explains the after action review process, the tool adopted by BP from the US Army to facilitate ‘learning while doing'.

Learning after doing 3 Sep 2003
In the last of a three-part series, Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell draw on their experience – and their recently published book, Learning to Fly – to describe another of their practical tools for learning, before, during and after any business activity. This month's article explains the ‘retrospect' process, the tool used by BP for learning after doing.

Knowledge Management Review May-June 2001 , Volume 4, Issue 2
Embedding KM into business practices at BP: Part one achieving unconscious competence

Presentations

Here is a presentation I gave on The Knowledge Society at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Berne, Switzerland in Jan 2007.

The presentation can be found here and here is a text of what I said.

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation January 2007
An interview in French.  

Sharing my experiences of knowledge sharing in different environments.

And here is a brief video interview David Gurteen gave me at KM Asia on creating a Learning environment: video

Links

Online discussions are one way I stay connected.  Here are some of my favourites: