2006 Boston and New York City

In 2006 our third study trip went to Boston and New York. We arrived in Boston to just to used to being away. Some of us went to Harvard for a quick visit and we took a tour of the city. On Monday we travelled to Babson College, Wellesley. We enjoyed two days of lecturing and discussing our trade with Tom Davenport and Laurence Prusak. We talked about knowledge management and processes within organizations being the basis for knowledge management segmentation. Laurence told us about storytelling and a project manager from Partners Health came along to tell us about their prescription management system. The third day we were out and about. We went to the Cambridge Innovation Centre were small startups got a chance to start renting small office spaces on a monthly bases.

After three days in Boston we went to New York. There we met with Franklin Becker and watched the construction of the new building of the New York Times. We talked about change-management in new office spaces and talked about some other big projects in Manhattan.

The good thing about being on a study trip is that we hear people talking very engaging about their work and new challenges. In the bus everybody is getting more and more excited and having more and more ideas. The energy everybody is feeling is enormous, and just talking to each other and to the people we meet is making the energy grow exponentially. Back in The Netherlands everybody was feeling very energized and ready to get back to work, putting our ideas into practice!