Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies
Canada
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- Founder at Blended Perspectives Inc
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- Senior Manager at Helix Commerce International
- Manager at Arthur Andersen
- Programmer at Reuters
- Education
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- Melbourne Business School
- McMaster University
- Rotman School of Business
- University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Martin Cleaver’s Summary
Broadly speaking, I seek a Knowledge Management consultancy role, with a home base in Toronto. My MSc thesis project ignited my imagination of the possibilities of being able to deeply integrate and traverse people's intellectual capital: my consulting career at Andersen taught me practical rigour and deep skills to implement enterprise application integration solutions; and my MBA broadened my understanding to allow me to garner a holistic view of what strategy means and taught me how organisational culture can be used to harness innate entrepreneurial spirit that otherwise gets increasingly dampened as companies grow. I am confident that I can bring these together to generate insight and competitive advantage in the KM space.
I'm open to a range of roles, but a primary objective is to develop a better understanding of the KM vendor space, the niches that the vendors occupy, and the value drivers that make them competitive.
Martin Cleaver’s Specialties:
Middleware, Enterprise Application Integration, Wiki, TWiki, Concept Mapping, MBA, Computing Science
Martin Cleaver’s Experience
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Founder
Blended Perspectives Inc
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Knowledge Management using Enterprise 2.0 techniques.
Deep specialists in Distributed Systems and Distributed Organizational theory, corralled using complexity theory. Wiki consulting since 2001. -
Senior Manager
Helix Commerce International
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
May 2005 — April 2007 (2 years)
Helix is a small boutique knowledge management strategy house. Helix specialized in catalyzing innovation by blending strategic, organizational and technological interventions. I led Helix's Wiki practice, mapping Helix's strategies into the Web 2.0 world and delivering the technology needed to make them happen.
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Manager
Arthur Andersen
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 1998 — December 2001 (4 years)
Specialised in Enterprise Application Integration. Clients included: Banco Santander Centro Hispano, British Sky Broadcasting, Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Australia New Zealand Investment Bank, British Nuclear Fuels,
* Comprehensive understanding of Workflow products; Integration Architect; BSkyB: responsible for message broker based integration approach. Defined and managed the software configuration for development, test, and production architectures. Banco Santander: Validated TIBCO architecture at both local and global level.
* Promoted from Consultant to Manager; Initiated and ran internal project to select and setup team knowledge management system. Phase two ran over four months to formally adopt the system into Andersen infrastructure, I led a team of ten to implement.
* Extensive Java (In 2000, Bookmark Teckchek for Java 2 Proficiency rated accuracy at 83rd percentile speed at 96th percentile of test takers). -
Programmer
Reuters
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Online Media industry)
October 1995 — March 1998 (2 years 6 months)
I was one of only four graduates that the Reuters Technology Group recruited
Reuters Web, Reuters London, 1997
· Participated in the design and coding of a single sign-on system for Reuters Web.
1996: Reuters Market Data, Reuters Hong Kong,
· Designed and coded a multi-tier Java Satellite-to-Triarch Reuters Market Data bridge.
1996: Reuters Web, Reuters London,
· Designed and coded a Java web wandering robot to feed Verity search engine.
Martin Cleaver’s Education
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Melbourne Business School
MBA, Specialising in Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies, January 2003 — May 2004
Elected Student Council representative; instigated and chaired the official student community website. (http://www.mbssrc.com)
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McMaster University
MBA Unit, Unit In Knowledge Management, September 2003 — December 2003
I participated only in the P727 Knowledge Management course under Professor Nick Bontis.
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Rotman School of Business
MBA, Exchange Student, September 2003 — December 2003
I participated as an exchange student, specialising in Implementation of Strategy, Organizational Design, Entrepreneurship and Marketing Of High Technology products.
Representative for the business school incoming Exchange Students
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University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
MSc, Computer Software and Systems Design, September 1994 — September 1995
Database design, VLSI design, Networking, Parallel Architectures, Theory of Concurrency, Performance Evaluation, Reliability & Distributed Systems. Thesis: Web-based, multi-user Concept Mapping software implementation.
I was selected to be one of only 4 technology graduates that Reuters UK International Technology Product Group employed.- Activities and Societies:
- Computing Society, CSoc
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University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
BSc, Computing Science, September 1991 — June 1994
President University Computing Society 1991-1992; I re-founded and grew society from a hard core of 20 Computer Science students to 160 people. Established the committee that grew membership to 260 in the years that followed.
- Activities and Societies:
- Computing Society, CSoc
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Martin Cleaver’s Interests:
Wikis, Middleware,Web 2.0, Conceptmapping, Strategy, Culture
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