Sandrock, Gotfredsen & Associates was established in 2008 to satisfy the growing need for Knowledge Management understanding, processes, tools and technologies. The sole aim of SG&A is to develop capacity within organisations for them to manage and grow their knowledge from within. This includes, yet is not limited to:
Knowledge Management leadership development
Knowledge Management Strategy and Implementation plan development
Mentoring of Knowledge Managers
Outsourced Kowledge Management implementation and support
Knowledge-based business model innovation
Customised internal knowledge management and Web 2.0 training programmes
Process and technique development
Tacit knowledge capture of highly specialised “know how” expertise
Public courses, conferences and workshops
Coaching on the characteristics and behaviour of the knowledge economy
Intellectual capital management and development
Knowledge sharing and Web 2.0 process, role and technology implementation
The organisation leverages the experience of both partners and all associates, and subcontracts specialists when necessary.
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Judi Sandrock Judi Sandrock has twenty one years of experience in medium to large corporate environments, as well as being successful as an independent consultant. She has extensive experience in the Mining Industry, as well as in Industrial Process Industries, and product and market development.
Judi Sandrock has been involved in the Knowledge Management field since 1998, after being coached in Memphis by Bob Buckman and Melissie Rumizen, experts and authors in the field. Judi lectures in Knowledge Management for a number of Post Graduate – including MBA - courses at Wits, Pretoria and Johannesburg Universities. In addition, she has presented at over fifty South African Leadership and Knowledge Management-related events, and several international conferences, including key-note addresses. She is the national facilitator and founder of the South African Knowledge Management Practitioner's Group, which has grown to over four hundred members in four regions. Judi has developed a reputation for being the South African expert in the field of managing in the knowledge economy, as well as attracting attention on the international front. Her qualifications are in Chemical Engineering, Industrial and Applied Chemistry (Wits), Project Management, Marketing Management and holds an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
In addition she has written a book on the practical implementation of knowledge management in organisations with the title The Art of Managing Knowledge – A Practitioners Guide. Judi is currently researching the cultural impacts on knowledge sharing for her doctoral dissertation for the University of Pretoria.
Bjarke Gotfredsen Bjarke Gotfredsen has worked with Information Technology since his Father carried home a computer from the Danish version of CSIR in the late seventies. He has a B.Sc. in Information Technology from the Business University of Copenhagen. He ran his own consulting company from the mid eighties to 1999 when he moved to South Africa. His consulting company was the first company to assist with implementing Intranets, and by that breaking the stigma about using the web as a static place for data.
Since Bjarke arrived in South Africa he has been involved in IT companies at board level focusing on strategic implementations of information technology. His latest role was forming the South African Legal Information Institute (saflii.org), which is tasked with collecting and hosting all judgments and legal decisions from 17 Southern African nations.
Bjarke Gotfredsen has a MBA from GIBS 2001-2002, and is currently studying towards his Ph.D. in IT at the University of Pretoria, where he is researching the usage of Web 2.0 in South Africa. He has published in international journals and holds world wide patents in IT security processes.
Melanie Sutton Melanie has worked in the field of Information & Knowledge Management for nine years developing KM Strategies, creating and developing knowledge and information infrastructures and environments, including designing, building and implementing a variety of KM technologies including SharePoint, developing taxonomies, and creating governance frameworks. She has done extensive work building knowledge culture through communities of practice and enhancing knowledge worker competence through initiatives such as improving Internet Research Skills and Personal Knowledge Management.
She has worked in global organisations and has extensive experience in global knowledge management practices and virtual collaboration.
For the past six years, Melanie has contributed a quarterly column for the online South African Journal of Information Management (www.sajim.co.za) entitled Information Citizenship, writing about topics ranging from Collaboration to the Significance of Trust and most recently about Organisational Information Citizenship - Turning the IT Department into IT Citizens.
She is currently completing a thesis for MPhil in Knowledge & Information Management entitled Leveraging Enterprise Portals for business performance - Implications for the management of organisational knowledge assets.
Nadine Sandrock Nadine Sandrock has eight years of corporate experience ranging from hospitality, banking and the mobile telecoms industries. Her experience in the knowledge management field is in the customisation of collaborative tools, training of administrators and users and quality control. Nadine is currently studying for a Bachelor of Commerce degree through the University of South Africa. In addition her role in Sandrock Gotfredsen & Associates includes the marketing function, arrangement of courses and conferences and assisting on projects.
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