Managing Director at RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC
Greater Seattle Area
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- Managing Director at RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC
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- Managing Director at Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC
- Manager, External Research at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Director, Apple Education Foundation at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Manager, Training & Marketing Support at Logo Computer Systems, Inc.
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- Cornell University
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Barbara Bowen’s Summary
RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC
(formerly Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC)
Port Townsend, WA August, 2009-present
Managing Director
An international consultancy that assists organizations to retain mission-critical knowledge and know-how when key and long-time employees retire.
Expert knowledge elicitation, visual knowledge modeling, application of cognitive technologies to enhance the creation, representation and effective use of intellectual capital.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SOUND KNOWLEDGE STRATEGIES, LLC
Managing Director
(Sound Knowledge Strategies is now Retain Know-How, LLC)
APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
• Founder & Manager, External Research, Apple Computer, Inc.
Facilitated effective transfer of research-based technologies & university research to Apple's manufacturing, advanced technologies & product development groups. Reduced cost of hiring researchers & engineers.
* Director, Apple Education Foundation
Enhanced Apple's leadership in K-12 education via high-impact grant programs and publications for educators.
LOGO COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. (LCSI)
• Manager, Training and Marketing Support
Developed presentations for key customers & effective marketing collateral for Apple Logo - Apple's 1st co-labeled product.
Barbara Bowen’s Specialties:
visual knowledge modeling, expert knowledge elicitation, application of advanced learning technologies to enhance rapid knoweldge transfer, concept mapping, management effectiveness.
Barbara Bowen’s Experience
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Managing Director
RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC
(Management Consulting industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC is an international consultancy that helps executives retain organizational expertise when experts retire.
"The number of people that can do the type of work that Barbara Bowen does to capture the knowledge of an expert at the level that she does it can be counted with one hand." Alberto J. Canas, Associate Director, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
RETAIN KNOW-HOW, LLC offers
• Expert knowledge elicitation and visual knowledge modeling to help executives retain their organization's critical capacity and know-how when long-time or key employees retire.
• Strategic consulting - assisting executives to identify mission-critical knowledge that's at risk of loss or degradation due to retirement or re-organization
• Creation of new organizational knowledge assets that facilitate rapid knowledge transfer and effective learning
• Advising organizations on effective strategies to retain critical capacity & intellectual capital
• Helping management build in-house capacity to capture, share and effectively use high-impact, mission-critical knowledge and know-how. -
Managing Director
Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2005 — August 2009 (4 years 6 months)
I draw upon knowledge and insights gained from over twenty-five years of affiliations with leaders in learning technologies and cognitive tools.
I helped transfer ground-breaking learning technologies from research labs to the marketplace:
• MIT Logo --> LCSI Logo --> Apple Logo, Apple's first co-branded software product,
• Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments CSILE/
KnowledgeForumTM, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education --> commercial product
• CmapToolsTM: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition(IHMC) --> small business, large business, think tanks.
The first job of management is, therefore to identify and to anticipate impacts. Peter Drucker
See: "How does Web 2.0 Impàct Lawyers" http://cmapspublic2.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1191529427697_1816180537_20462&partName=htmltext -
Manager, External Research
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
March 1986 — March 1993 (7 years 1 month)
External Research was an intrapreneurial initiative to increase Apple's portfolio of advanced technologies, to provide an effective means to identify and recruit new talent, and to support Higher Ed Marketing.
The department created and managed collaborative research partnerships between Apple's engineers and researchers and leading university researchers for a broad range of technologies and research areas.
External Research partnerships generated new technologies for Apple's portfolio, including: human interface, manufacturing, object oriented databases, operating systems and advanced learning technologies.
The partnership strategy was researcher-to-researchers collaborations, an approach that was very popular with both University researchers and Apple employees.
External Research's policy of providing unrestricted fellowship support for graduate students led to highly productive internships and major reductions in the cost of recruiting researchers and engineers. -
Director, Apple Education Foundation
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1983 — March 1986 (3 years 3 months)
Developed new vision and program guidelines for corporate education foundation
Recruited Advisory Board of national experts
Keynote speaker on uses of technology to enhance learning
Contributed to Apple's strategy for K-12
Supported Apple's regional sales reps with research-based educational collateral
Represented Apple at international, national, and regional educational technology conferences and meetings, including the National Task Force on Educational Technology -
Manager, Training & Marketing Support
Logo Computer Systems, Inc.
(Management Consulting industry)
1980 — 1983 (3 years )
Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI) developed a commercial product based on the Logo computing language developed by Seymour Papert, Hal Abelson, Cynthia and colleagues at MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science. Apple Computer, Inc. entered into an agreement with LCSI to produce and market an "Apple-labeled" product.
Developed marketing and sales collateral.
Designed and conducted training for K-12 customers and educators.
Keynote speaker for Apple Education Marketing on Logo as a tool to develop thinking and "powerful ideas" of computation. Success in the latter role led to being recruited by Apple.
Barbara Bowen’s Education
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Cornell University
PhD , science education, ecology, cognitive science , 1968 — 1972
Dissertation: "Implications of Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and David Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning for Development of Curriculum and Instruction in Science."
- Activities and Societies:
- University Senate, Modern Dance Club
Additional Information
Barbara Bowen’s Websites:
Barbara Bowen’s Groups:
Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), Association for Curriculum Development (ASCD), Association of Knowledge Work (AOK), Poets Northwest, Washington Poets Association (WPA), LinkedIn LIONS, Cornell Alumni Network,
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ki work - powering the online business revolution -
Leadership America Alumnae -
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Smart People magazine Group
Barbara Bowen’s Honors:
Artist Trust Grant for Artist Project (GAP), 2007
Invited presenter, Gestion de Conocimiento, Bogota, Colombia, June, 2008: "Why Knowledge Elicitation is a Core KM Capability."
Invited Presenter, E/merge2006: Online conference for researchers and educators in southern Africa, July, 2006
Ten Year Outstanding Contribution Award, Apple Computer, Inc. 1993
Leadership America Signature Award, 1992
National Task Force on Educational Technology, 1990
Who's Who of American Women, 1987
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