Best Practices for Creating a Knowledge Sharing Culture
Forum and Round Table Discussion (Members Only)
Friday, February 25, 2011
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Dan Ranta, Director, Knowledge Sharing; Conoco Phillips
Location: Fisher College of Business
Room: TBD
Please join the COE as we host Dan Ranta, director of Knowledge Sharing for ConocoPhillips, and learn
how the 2009 and 2010 Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) award winner set up best practices
for creating a knowledge sharing culture.
ConocoPhillips’ vision has been to connect employees globally to help secure the company's future. The
implementation of a global knowledge management (KM) system, with significant Enterprise 2.0
components, has helped achieve new levels of employee productivity and enhanced business value.
During the face-to-face sessions, Ranta will review the history of the KM program and share how
managing knowledge has helped transform business processes and enable productivity and innovation.
Dan Ranta as the director of Knowledge Sharing at ConocoPhillips is accountable for the strategic
implementation of knowledge sharing for the 31,000-person integrated oil and gas company a top-20
global company in total revenue terms.
Ranta led a small team charged with developing and implementing a knowledge sharing strategy for the
Exploration and Production part of the business then later joined ConocoPhillips in his current role –
making a complete transition to lead the effort he began as a consulting practice leader. Today,
Knowledge Sharing spans the entire enterprise and has grown to include more than 130 Networks of
Excellence (NoEs) enabled with the world-class processes and infrastructure needed to support them.
The focus is on business transformation that leads to additional business value. From 2004-present,
knowledge sharing documented $100s of millions of estimated cash flow (additional business value) for
ConocoPhillips. In 2009, the KS Team implemented OneWiki – an enterprise-wide version of Wikipedia.
From its inception the OneWiki has been a “game-changer” for employees of all generations to provide
contextually based know-how.
Before joining ConocoPhillips, Ranta served as practice leader of Schlumberger Business Consulting,
specializing in fields related to knowledge, content management and portals. Previously, he led the KM
consulting community for IBM Consulting Services, where he conducted multi-faceted knowledge
management-related work including KM strategy, social network analysis, communities of practice, and
design and implementation of portal structures. Earlier, he worked as Global Program Manager for Ernst
and Young’s Center for Business Knowledge
Ranta holds a bachelor’s in Business Administration and Spanish from Grove City College
(Pennsylvania), and a master’s in Management from Kent State University (Ohio). He also completed a
year of post-graduate work with New York State University in Paris, France. Finally, he is a huge
Buckeye fan.
To register for this event, please contact Ben Moore at moore.1365@osu.edu