Knowledge Matters™

Understanding the Complexity of Program Management . A presentation in February 2008 by Patrick Byrne and myself to the Melbourne Chapter of the Project Management Institute . Just over 150 project and program managers attended the session. This was the first time we exposed our Project Knowledge Model and Business Network Analysis™ techniques to a public forum of our peers. Between March and July 2008 this presentation in one guise or another has been given to the Sydney and Canberra Chapters of the Project Management Institute, and the Australian Institute of Management.

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The Knowledge Level of Maturity (KLOM) - A Knowledge Approach to Identifying Risk in Projects . This paper was presented at the 19th IPMA World Congress in India in November 2005.

A Strategic Risk Based Approach to Regulating Technologies and Vulnerabilities . A presentation to the 2007 International Symposium on Technology and Society given in June 2007. The conference was organised by The Society on Social Implications of Technology .

Rwanda: A Case Study in Ethical and Leadership Dilemmas . A presentation on operational ethics periodically given to the Australian Defence College , and occasionally to other organisations. Warning: Some photographs are gruesome .

Research Paradigms, the Philosophical Trinity and Methodology . A presentation prepared in 2005 from a University paper that I wrote in 2005 to crystalise my thoughts on methodologies.

Australian Capital Territory Perioperative Nurses: A Survey of their Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave the Specialty . A presentation co-authored with my wife Peta Durant-Law, and presented to the ACORN 2006 national conference. The presentation was derived from Peta's Master of Nursing thesis .

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Discipline is Not a Dirty Word! The actKM 2006 conference keynote speech written for Lieutenant General Hurley and Brigadier Welch from Capability Development Executive .

The TARDIS Knowledge Productivity™ System . The first draft of the manual for the Australian Defence Force's Capability Development Executive's knowledge management system. The manual was co-authored with Patrick Byrne in 2007. This document is still a draft, hence it is protected so that it cannot be printed or copied. Please do not quote without first obtaining permission from Graham Durant-Law .

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