Position: Knowledge Transfer, Think Plus
Short vita: Elizabeth Lank is an independent specialist who works with public, private and voluntary sector organisations to help them improve efficiency and effectiveness through greater cross-boundary collaboration and knowledge sharing. Based in the U.K., she has recently published a new book on collaborative working across different organisations, entitled Collaborative Advantage: How Organizations Win by Working Together (Palgrave Macmillan 2006).
After completing the INSEAD MBA degree in 1986, Elizabeth joined I.T. services company ICL (now Fujitsu Services) and held a number of strategic organisational development, management development and internal communication roles (including leading ICL's Mobilising Knowledge programme for five years) before setting up her own business in January 2001. She spent the early part of her career working for the European headquarters of an American computer company in Geneva, Switzerland. A Canadian by birth, she graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1980.
Elizabeth is co-author of the book, The Power of Learning - A Guide to Gaining Competitive Advantage (IPD 1994), written as a practitioner's guide to building 'learning organisations'. She has published a number of articles on collaborative working and knowledge management and collaborated with Amin Rajan on the research report, 'Good Practices in Knowledge Creation and Exchange' (CREATE 1998). She is a member of the international editorial boards of the Journal of Change Management and Knowledge Management Review.
Elizabeth is an expert evaluator for the European Commission's Directorate General for Information Society. She is a Faculty Associate at the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) in Aix-en-Provence and has been a visiting lecturer on the U.K. government's Cabinet Office Top Management Programme, at INSEAD, London Business School, Henley Management College and Solvay Business School in Brussels, as well as a regular speaker and facilitator at public and in-company management conferences.
Links:
www.think.plus.com
e.lank@berlin-school.com
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