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I am a passionate advocate of the premise that organisations and enterprises can become smarter, faster, more agile and more innovative by recognising the latent creativity and energy locked up their most precious and valuable resource - their people. This can only be achieved by creating an environment of trust, where conversations can flow and where ideas are encouraged and nurtured without being killed stone dead by process. My 25 years + background in information and knowledge management, coupled with an intuitive understanding of people and group dynamics has enabled me to blend the disciplines of policy, process and procedure with the human instincts to collaborate and co-create, delivering organisational change and systems where connections and conversations are the key to self-development and the sustainable health of the organisation.

I am both an evangelist and practitioner in the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Media applications to support personal learning and knowledge sharing.

I was the business lead and information architect for the community of practice platform currently deployed across the UK local government sector, the largest network of its type, and I continue to play a key role in the support of virtual communities of practice for value creation in public services.

My current and previous clients include 3i plc, Reuters Ltd, Papillon Technology, the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP), the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), the Central Office of Information (COI), the Office for National Statistics (ONS), The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), London Deanery, and East Lindsey District Council.

My blog: steve-dale.net
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Favourite Quotes

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

- Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge".

- Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."

- Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

"If I have seen further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

- Sir Isaac Newton, 1643-1727

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you got."

- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

"Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce."

Anon.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

- Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981.

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence"

- Lawrence Peter.

"In a knowledge economy there are no such things as conscripts - there are only volunteers. The trouble is we have trained our managers to manage conscripts."

- Peter Drucker, (date unknown).

"You don't know the true value of knowledge until you share it"

- Steve Dale

Recommended Books
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum:Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore Sanity. Author: Alan Cooper

Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management From Leading and Learning Organizations. Authors: Chris Collison, Geoff Parcell

Cultivating Communities of Practice. Authors: Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermot, William M Snyder

Here comes everybody. Author: Clay Shirky

Steve Dale