Marcello Rollando chats with NASA’s Ed Rogers, PhD

Dr. Edward Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland.  Dr. Rogers joined NASA in May 2003 as the Center’s Chief Knowledge Architect working first in the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate and then in the Office of Mission Success. He became the Chief Knowledge Officer for the Center in 2006.

At Goddard, he has built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Center’s overall mission of designing, developing and flying space missions and continuously improving space communications.  He introduced the simple yet effective Pause and Learn (PaL) process, which allows project teams to reflect on their experience and improve organizational learning.  He developed an internal case study methodology and used it to create Goddard-specific case studies for use in training sessions and workshops. He designed (and runs) the Goddard Road to Mission Success workshop series which helps employees across organizational boundaries to better understand how the Center works, promotes knowledge sharing and ultimately strengthens collaboration across the Center. His programs and initiatives have also been embraced within the Agency. 

Dr. Rogers is a frequent guest lecturer in MBA classes and at Federal Agencies in the Washington, DC area. Since 2009 he has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India where he teaches a popular course on Managing Complexity. He has authored or co-authored a number of papers, articles and case studies. In 1996, he appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Email:  edward.w.rogers@nasa.gov

Website: http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/ocko