Sparknow publications

Here’s the thoughtleader for the Ark knowledge management conference which Paul Corney chaired this week. It takes a look at the worlds of knowledge management, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, knowledge transfer and...

In 2006 or 7 Doug Lipman asked me to be part of a small group working with the United Ways at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough Tennessee. We agreed I’d talk...

Sparknow was commissioned by ADB in early 2009 to conduct a legacy stories project that would provide ADB with a series of assets, including an audio composition, a publication, a...

Part of the MLA London Knowledge Exchange Programme, one of the workshops Unexpected angles and surprising collaborations was an exciting one to curate. Hosted by UCL Museum and Collections...

Sparknow has always placed great emphasis on the effective use of space to create the right environment for the exchange of ideas and knowledge transfer. In our early days we used a...

Never before in Defra have we done a lessons learned project in the way this one was done. It completely vindicated doing it.

Fiona Lickorish, Defra: Head of Horizon Scanning and...

In embarking on a very early virtual spring clean in that wonderfully productive period between Christmas and The New Year, I came across this article the EU's KnowledgeBoard commissioned me to write...

Here’s a draft of an essay I wrote for the College of Estate Management last October, which I’m taking a fresh look at now. I took on the commission for three reasons

Through its ‘Transformation for Change’ project, Royal Mail is aiming to update and improve both the technology it uses and the services it offers to customers. By creating a series of carefully...

The MLA London Knowledge Transfer Programme reports have just been launched, and here they are, hot off the press. There are the Findings, a Methodology statement and an outline of...

Narrative enquiry: A way to get organisations (and the people in them) talking and acting differently

Paul Corney & Victoria Ward June 2008

Business Information Review

Vol. 25, No. 2, 105-120 (2008)

This case study outlines almost our very first encounter with SDC. Looking at it now I’m struck by the efforts we made to liven up our recountings of client work, by...

This Guide, and the Flyer that goes with it, are two of the major assets which resulted from a 5 year partnership (their choice of word) with SDC, the Swiss Aid...

Written for Natalie Shell, who edited the February edition of AI Practitioner on Significance of Story: Gifts, New Techniques and Inspiring Examples

Stories give, rather than take, time. This...

This is an edited version of a paper Stephanie Colton and Victoria Ward gave at the Smithsonian conference in Washington a couple of years back. It explores two pieces of work from...

This is a ‘factional’ (factual in essence but dipped in fiction to protect the identity of our clients) correspondence between the authors during an oral history project for an international development institution...

Authors: Stephanie Colton, Victoria Ward with contributions from Claudine Arnold, Paul Corney and Carol Russell Spring 2004

I see that when we wrote this we were fumbling around for something we...

Notes from an interactive session facilitated by Fiona Incledon and Victoria Ward of Sparknow at the Ark Knowledge Management conference ‘Managing for Health and Social Care’, London April 2004.

Think...

Authors: Stephanie Colton, Angela Dove, Victoria Ward, Clive Holtham. Paper presented at 'In Search of Time' conference, Palermo, Italy May 2003 This is one of my favourite ideas and think pieces. Sparknow has...

Authors: Maike Bohn, Clive Holtham, Victoria Ward Paper submitted to OKLC conference Athens, Greece April 2002