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 | Chuck Tryon, Tryon and AssociatesChuck Tryon is a nationally respected educator and popular symposium speaker. He founded Tryon and Associates in 1986 to provide seminar training and consulting that helps organizations and individuals develop predictable and repeatable approaches to modern project management, knowledge management, business requirements and software design. The strategies presented in Mr. Tryon’s seminars are used by thousands of professionals in hundreds of organizations across the United States, Europe and Canada. His client list includes many top 100 companies.
Chuck has authored eight multi-day seminars and is completing a book titled Great Ideas. He is currently working on a second book titled What’s YOUR Charter? Chuck is a frequent keynote speaker at Project Management Institute meetings and symposiums.
Starting in 2006, Chuck launched an effort with Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh to integrate the natural by-products of projects with the organizational needs represented in the emerging discipline of Knowledge Management. Chuck and Suliman have co-authored several papers and are planning new books on the topic. They jointly authored and present a one-day seminar titled Project-Based Knowledge Management. Dr. Hawamdeh is the director of the Masters of Science in Knowledge Management at the University of Oklahoma.
Since his instructional career began in 1981, Mr. Tryon has taught at or consulted with American Airlines, The SABRE Group, United Parcel Service, Texaco, Ryder Systems, Ruppman Marketing, BMC Software, Airline Tariff Publishing Company, St. John Medical Center, Conoco, Amerada Hess Corporation, Cities Services, Phillips Petroleum, Gulf Oil Company, I.B.M., Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, A.C. Nielsen, Computer Science Corporation, Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics, Ashland Chemical, Dupont, Mead Paper, Alcoa, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Insurance, Hughes Aircraft, United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corp, United States Strategic Air Command, Social Security Administration, Jacksonville University, University of Colorado Medical School, State of Texas, State of Colorado, State of California, City of Tulsa, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America and California Federal Savings and Loan.
Prior to launching Tryon and Associates, Mr. Tryon spent five years as a senior staff consultant and instructor with Yourdon, Inc. of New York. Mr. Tryon also worked for Sun Oil Company as a Project Manager, Systems Analyst and Software Designer. Chuck and his wife, Tresa, reside in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. They have two daughters, Amanda and Casey. When not making teaching or spoiling granddaughter, Madeline, Chuck tries to find time for his two favorite hobbies, golf and SCUBA diving … but not usually at the same time. |
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 | What's Your Charter?One of the first acts of any project should be to create a Project Charter. Webster describes a charter as "a declaration or document setting forth the aims and principles of a group united in an undertaking." We define a Project Charter as...
…a formal agreement between the creators and consumers of project deliverables that establishes the purpose, boundaries, directions, limitations and participants of a project.
The goal of a Project Charter is to achieve consensus between all the key players … at the start of the project when there is the greatest opportunity for agreement. Creating a well-defined Project Charter is simply good business. It is a highly professional act that pays dividends throughout the life of the effort.
If you can't get your customers, owners and team members aligned on the project at the very beginning, what are the chances of it happening later? Simply stated, no charter … no project.
This presentation explains the nine core Charter components proven by scores of organizations over the past twenty years of use.
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| Retaining Organizational Knowledge - Projects Meet Knowledge ManagementOrganizations of all types and sizes are struggling to address the widening gap between what they must know to thrive and an unprecedented loss of organizational knowledge. New market opportunities and improved technologies create a growing demand for new knowledge. At the same time, seasoned workers are retiring at rates never seen in modern business and finding adequate replacements is becoming more difficult.
A new management discipline, Knowledge Management, has recently emerged with the goal to help organizations recognize, retain and share organizational knowledge. Knowledg Management is dominating discussions in executive suites around the world. Yet for many, this topic remains conceptual and intangible.
In this fresh and innovative presentation, noted speaker, author and seminar leader, Chuck Tryon of Tryon and Associates, examines two key elements missing from most organizations’approach to Knowledge Management. One critical component is a formal Knowledge Retention Policy that serves as an inventory of intellectual assets considered valuable to an organization. The other is to utilize naturally occurring projects as key source to harvest refined organizational knowledge, feeding both project and product repositories.
These concepts are the result of over twenty-five years of research by Mr. Tryon into implications of the Knowledge Age and a more recent collaboration with Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, the program director of the Masters of Science in Knowledge Management program at the University of Oklahoma.
This presentation will clearly identify the challenges brought on by the current knowledge drain and how Knowledge Management addresses the problem. Mr. Tryon then provides very practical advice on how a Knowledge Retention Policy will help identify areas of organizational risk as well as establish a foundation for knowledge retention. Lastly, Mr. Tryon will offer a number of very tangible steps to consider when implementing a Knowledge Management strategy.
Additional information on Mr. Tryon and this approach to Knowledge Management may be found on the home page of www.TryonAssoc.com. For additional reading, download “Bridging the Knowledge Gap Parts One and Two” and “Project-Based Knowledge Management” from the Tryon and Associates website
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