Millennium Project

Introductions and Key Themes

Leigh Adam – Duke Executive Education

• Passion for learning
• Peace Corp.
• MBA at Duke
• Halmark and Amsco
• Connect technologies and connect to organizations to move in positive direction
• Gardening and simplicity

Nancy Atwood – BDM Technologies

• Denver office focusing on use of Internet/Intranet
• Background – Educational Psychology
• Passion: How do we humanize work, and create a culture where people are more appreciated and valued?
• Grew up in Santa Monica, CA and studied at UCLA

Ken Allan – Siemens

• Mentor Project – Web master (technology)
• Great love is technology – new "toys"
• Likes to understand ways to use technology in new and creative ways
• Training in MRI side and Pack System (paperless hospital)
• Sharing images over long images in medical world
• How do we mix the technology and content together

Diana Ascher – Executive Program at Duke

• Developing on global MBA on internet
• Break down to lower levels of organization
• Design and doing best web sites
• Find solutions for business simulation tools
• Interested in learning from one another

Christina Bader-Kowalski – Siemens

Thomas Brauchle – Siemens HR

• Internet – how to motivate people and leave people through a complicated task on the Internet

John Chan – Siemens

• Technical trainer (MRI)
• Web master for content in Mentor Project
• What is balance between training content: text based vs multi-media

Val Choumitsky – Siemens

• Education which is deep, promotes learning and analysis
• 17 years from GM, developed medical technology
• Computer typography labs
• Move into educational work, university model of education
• Distance education key
• Lived education – Un of Phoneix on-line education
• Find ways to integration tech. Learning with business learning

Kent Dickson – BDM

• Look at various technologies, training and assessment and put them together

Bob Fuller – Siemens – Sales and training

• Train and development
• Passion: create linkages within company
• If Siemens knew what Siemens knows
• Use technology and share best practices
• Raised in Southern Calif, lived in east house
• Restoring 150 year old home

Christopher Galassi – Innovative Projects Lab, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN)

Jeanette Harrison – Intel

Uwe Hinderer VisionLab

• VisionLab – Speciality software more than a DB
• Gather information from all colleagues in company
• Challenge – know what is important to put in system

Nils Hogsdal – Unicon

Mike Jetter – MindMan

• Mind map
• Does not have linear mind
• Draws circle – then learn to co-create, work in pairs
• Change the ways we work to move from linear thinking to non-linear thinking

Margaret Logan - Gutenberg

• Excited about internet
• Computer training for 10 years
• Pilot project on MRP II Training – all employees
• Passions: talk on internet

John McCann – Duke Director of Communication Technologies

• Develop new "Educational Marketing" department
• Can use existing material for outside
• Takes time and money to develop education material, can more easily scan, and there is a tool from Lotus to identify your learning processes
• Working with Un in China

Rosemaria Makowski – Siemens

• Passion: People
• Works in Cary
• Works with upper management at Siemens
• What kinds of tools can help to identify competencies and skills

Steve Marshall

• Bring employee himself to self-educate and develop own career
• How can Siemens people learn for their own career
• Partnering and Networking are most important personal strategy and for company, so helps avoid building walls around us.

Elizabeth Reuthe – Elizabeth Reuthe Associates

• Digital – plant manager
• Bio-technology company
• Help people understand what other groups are doing
• Make working environment where people can work together
• Working with people’s real interest

Charles Savage

• Move from industrial model to knowledge era model where people are valued
• Where knowledge and intellectual assets
• Knowledge and values
• Values help us to access information
• Co-creation – by working together we co-create something together

Jim Sheegog – Duke University, School of Business

• Global executive management
• Background – Burrow Welcome, and Glaxo
• Gimba Program – On-line MBA (world wide)
• Passion: Education

Cindy Stone – Arthur Andersen

Nancy Stuart – Intel

• How to understand how people learn
• Pick appropriate technology
• What do people really need for learning

Peter Vieser – Siemens

• Partnering and Payback
• Partnering – most important to partner with boss, colleagues and customers to find virtual solutions to problems, through metrics, dollars
• Payback - find payback while changing the infrastructure
• Working day and night to build infrastructure, and also finding personal satisfaction while doing this