8th Mumbai KM Community - Presented by L&T

The 8th Mumbai KM Community meeting will be presented by L&T (Engineering and Construction Division) on February 26. Below are the details:

Topic: Implementing KM 2.0 – The Building Block of Collaboration

Focus of KM has shifted from linking content to people, to connecting collaborative groups that interact and share reusable knowledge assets – renowned as KM 2.0. The speaker will share his experiences and the practices implemented to bring this paradigm shift in L&T.

The second part of the presentation will talk about the ‘self actualisation’ stage of knowledge management – embedding KM in the business. How does the organization change its viewpoint, and not see KM as a ‘different department’.

The presentation will be a combination of practical cases that rope in details on the key initiatives, people processes and technology platforms.

Presenter: Mr. Rajiv Sinha (AGM – Knowledge Management)

Rajiv is a B.E. in mechanical engineering and M. Tech. in industrial engineering & management from IIT, Kharagpur. He’s been with L&T since the last five years where he is responsible for KM, electronic document management, and eLearning initiatives. Prior to L&T, for 5 years Rajiv was with Tata Steel, Jamshedpur where his responsibilities included the design of a KM strategy, promotion of programs to propagate awareness about KM, implementation of measures to metric the success of KM initiatives, development of communities of practice, and institutionalizing rewards and recognition criteria for KM.

Rajiv has several publications to his credit, most notably, a paper titled ‘Working Towards Total Process Improvement at L&T’ in the March – April 2007 issue of ‘KM Review’ published by Melcrum Publishing [attached – pages 18 to 23]. He also co-authored a paper titled ‘Forging Ahead with KM’ that was published in the July 2003 issue of ‘International Journal on Knowledge Management’ by Ark Group

Rajiv’s efforts have been instrumental in winning the MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) award in 2007 and 2009, for L&T.