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Knowledge Management

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Knowledge Management

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  1. Knowledge Management Concepts and methods for delivering knowledge in the digital age .

  2. Objectives for this session • To explore the concepts & theory of Knowledge Management (KM) • To learn about some KM programs • To discuss the idea of KM in Postsecondary Education and in IR • To identify some of the controversies around KM

  3. Knowledge Management © United Features Syndicate, Inc.

  4. What is Knowledge Management? • Defined in a variety of ways. • KM in education: a strategy to enable people to develop a set of practices to create, capture, share & use knowledge to advance. • KM focuses on: • people who create and use knowledge. • processes and technologies by which knowledge is created, maintained and accessed. • artifacts in which knowledge is stored (manuals, databases, intranets, books, heads). Sources: Petrides, L.A. & Nodine, T.R (2003). Knowledge management in education: Defining the landscape. Edvinsson, L. & Malone, M.S. (1997). Intellectual capital: Realizing your company's true value by finding its hidden brainpower. Ford, N. (1989). From information- to knowledge-management. Journal of Information Science Principles & Practice.

  5. What is Knowledge Management? “Knowledge management is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, managing and sharing all of an enterprise’s information needs. These information assets may include databases, documents, policies and procedures as well as previously unarticulated expertise and experience resident in individual workers.” Source: GartnerGroup Research.

  6. A Community College’s Definition “A discipline and framework designed to help our organization acquire, package and share “what we know” to enable decision-making, creativity, innovation and communication.” (Cuyahoga Community College)

  7. Where does KM come from? • Technology • Infrastructure, Database, Web, Interface • Globalization • World wide markets, North American integration • Demographics • Aging population, workforce mobility, diversity • Economics • Knowledge economy • Customer relations • Quality • Increase in information • Specialization, Volume, Order Sources: Brown J.S. & Duguid, P. (1991). Organisational learning and communities-of-practice. Organisational Science. .O’Dell C. & Grayson Jr., C.J.(1998). If only we knew what we know. Stewart, T. (2002). The wealth of knowledge.

  8. The Rise of the Knowledge Worker Source: Stewart T.A. (1997). Intellectual capital.

  9. Labour market employment shift to a knowledge economy Source: Lavoie, M. & Roy, R. (1998). Employment in the knowledge-based economy.

  10. Digital Students By age 21, the average college student will have spent: • 10,000 hours video games • 200,000 emails • 20,000 hours TV • 10,000 hours cell phone • Under 5,000 hours reading Source: F. Prochaska, Students and Faculty Today: Inhabiting the Evolving Universe of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, 2003.

  11. Why KM? Source: Luan, J & Serban, A. (2002, June). Knowledge management concepts, models and applications. Paper presented at Annual AIR Forum, Toronto.

  12. What is Knowledge? • Knowledge is justified true belief. Ayer, A.J. (1956). The Problem of Knowledge. • Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experience and information. It originates and is applied in the minds of knowers. In organizations it often becomes embedded not only in documents or repositories but also in organizational processes, practices and norms. Davenport, T.H. & Prusak, L (1998). Working Knowledge. • Knowledge is information in action.O’Dell C. & Grayson Jr., C.J.(1998). If only we knew what we know.

  13. Data, Information & Knowledge Source: Luan, J & Serban, A. (2002, June). Knowledge management concepts, models and applications. Paper presented at Annual AIR Forum, Toronto. "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge"Naisbitt , J. (1984) Megatrends: Ten new directions transforming our lives.

  14. Explicit knowledge Formal or codified Documents: reports, policy manuals, white papers, standard procedures Databases Books, magazines, journals (library) Implicit (Tacit) knowledge Informal and uncodified Values, perspectives & culture Knowledge in heads Memories of staff, suppliers and vendors Two types of knowledge Know-how & learning embedded within the minds people. Documented information that can facilitate action. Knowledge informs decisions and actions. Sources: Polanyi, M. (1967). The tacit dimension. Leonard, D. & Sensiper, S. (1998). The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation. California Management Review.

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