Dave Snowden is
Director of the Institute of Knowledge Management for Europe Middle East
and Africa. One of the founders of 'Organic Knowledge Management', he is an acknowledged
expert on the management of tacit knowledge and has developed a series of pioneering
methods including the use of anthropological techniques for knowledge disclosure through the
ASHEN model, the use of stories as an advanced form of knowledge repository (based on six
years of research into story telling cultures around the world) and the Cynefin "Just in Time"
model of knowledge transfer between formal and informal communities. He regularly consults
at board level on Knowledge Strategy with some of the Worlds largest companies as well as to
Government and NGOs.
Dave is currently
leading two Institute programmes: One is the further development of Story
Techniques into advanced decision support, merger and aquisition and multi-cultural
communication; the other uses Complexity Theory to link concepts from Learning and
Knowledge Management. He has authored many articles on the subject and contributed
commissioned chapters to two forthcoming books. He is currently working on two books and
editing two others. His own books to be published in 2000-2001 are on the use and abuse of
Story and Complex Knowledge . Dave Snowden has an MBA from Middlesex University and
a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University. He is honorary fellow in knowledge
management at the Universities of Surrey and Warwick and teaches on the MBA programmes
at Warwick, Sophia Antipolis and Piacenza.
1. My Academic Work
