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The Knowledge Café: Unleashing a Knowledge-centric Project Environment

Is Knowledge Power? Knowledge is the most critical asset of any organization, but how powerful is the knowledge that is pigeonholed, unshared, unrejuvenated, and locked up in databases and the minds of project managers? Fact: you can’t force people to share their knowledge, but you create the right environment where knowledge is freely shared; people are incentivized to do that.

• For the first time in our lifetime, five generations interface in the project management space!
• Millennials will job-hop up to 20 times in their career—Education Advisory Board
• By 2029, the 76 million baby boomers retire and walk out with decades of project knowledge and experience. 
• Organizations that are most effective at knowledge management improve project outcomes by nearly 35%--PMI 2015 Pulse of the Profession.

Project knowledge is useless if it’s unapplied, pigeonholed, siloed, unshared, or unmanaged. How do you manage your project knowledge? Most revolution happens outside the home and office—at the café. This happens in a knowledge-centric environment. A knowledge culture is one where knowledge has been identified as a significant factor of production, enshrined in the organizational strategy, celebrated, and rewarded.

Knowledge transfer is not another program to be adopted, but philosophy in culture—and a way of life. 

Chance, serendipity, and INNOVATION transpire at the intercession of connected minds, at the knowledge café (Café), by the saucers—that’s where some of the most significant societal revolutions began—at the Café.

Knowledge Café is a powerful knowledge management technique/vehicle to bust silos, identify, and share critical knowledge and wisdom, rejuvenate, and create new knowledge. The Café is the university of the future for all project knowledge workers. In this session, curiosities will be stirred, minds ignited, and you’ll walk away with ready-to-implement and actionable tools for a knowledge-centric project environment.

 Learning Outcomes:

Learning Objectives and Takeaways:

▪ Simple strategies for creating a knowledge culture and how to develop knowledge café for your project teams

▪ Identify the trends, urgency, value, techniques, and how-to of Knowledge Management and the café

• Stir your curiosity for knowledge exchange, new knowledge, and innovation.

Speaker Biography:

 Global citizen Benjamin Anyacho is passionate, a quintessential project and portfolio manager, knowledge management (KM) cognoscente for 20+ years, with a mission to mentor one million servant-leaders. He is an inspirational speaker and author, including the new revolutionary book, “The Knowledge Café.” Benjamin’s works have been recognized locally and globally. He has presented original content (research papers and presentations) at multiple PMI Global conferences and LIM, NASEM-TRB, AASHTO, university commencements, symposia, etc., and a Journal of Knowledge Management reviewer.

As a senior project manager at Texas DOT, he drove the development of an OPM program and the institutionalization of PM principles and methodologies. Benjamin mentored 43 PMPs who have mentored hundreds of PMs; 100+ have become PMP certified since 2016; received a certificate of achievement for Outstanding Honorable Performance for high standards of excellence in PM by TxDOT Executive Director, 2016.

He is a voting member of various national committees/panels: National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine-TRB’s Information and KM Committee, NCHRP project panels, AASHTO’s Committee on KM, etc.  He is the TRB/AASHTO Information and Knowledge Management Research Subcommittee chair.

He was the 2018 charismatic president of the +3500-member PMI Austin Chapter, increased NPS from 6.6 to 8.6, membership 12.11%, gained 97% overall CS.

Benjamin is a board of trustee member of Juliana King University, Houston. He was honored with a doctorate in leadership, a radio host, author, certified PMP®, and holds an MBA in Global Business from St. Edward’s University Austin. A runner lives in Austin with his wife, Precious, and two teenage children, Ben and Amara.