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Chris Collison & Geoff Parcell       March 2005
In December 2004 we ran our first Learning to Fly workshop in London as part of the David Gurteen conference series. About 60 people attended and rated it highly. Click here to read what Ed Mitchell of KnowledgeBoard thought of it.


What we offer together                                                                                                                            ...up

Our focus is on helping people collaborate to achieve extraordinary results.

Capability building
We offer experiential learning to build effective teams, to manage knowledge and to manage change.

Coaching
We offer coaching and mentoring to individuals to achieve their desired outcomes and to leadership teams who want to be more effective together.

Consultancy
We act as consultants to help you successfully achieve your desired outcomes and objectives by taking account of issues such as goal setting, building the right organisation, risk management, stakeholder analysis and communications. We will facilitate better workshops and meetings so your team can work more effectively together.

Training events
Half, one or two day experiential training in the holistic approach to knowledge management.
One day master classes in different aspects of knowledge sharing, including:
building a knowledge management strategy,
leadership,
learning before during and after,
innovation,
building thriving communities of practice and
capturing and synthesising knowledge
We are authors of the best selling knowledge management book "Learning to Fly". We learned the techniques in BP as part of the KM team and applied them in Centrica and the United Nations
We delivered the Operations Excellence programme in BP, resulting in improvements in operations reliability which saved $10s of millions year on year.  As part of this we pioneered a new approach of "knowledge-based benchmarking".
We designed, and managed the creation of  "Connect", the expertise directory, and implemented it at scale across BP, before commercialising it. There are currently 33,000 people offering their know-how in BP, and nearly half a million SigmaConnect users in other companies around the world.
We interviewed innovative teams to understand how innovation works inside BP and shared that understanding with 10,000 in BP’s first level leaders programme.  See this Dialogos paper for more details.
We have acted as business advisors on knowledge management to HM Government, United Nations, GCHQ, NHS, a number of UK NGOs, and presented at board level to a numer of major companies.
We introduced the AIDS Competence programme to 30+ countries to help reduce the spread of the HIV epidemic.
What we have already achieved