[Year 12 IPM] Knowledge Management
Charmaine Taylor
tigeroz at alphalink.com.au
Wed Oct 18 23:24:11 EST 2006
Nice try Stephen,
but you forgot to include the quote from the article that has most
relevance to our study. That is,
“KM supports knowledge creation, sharing, storage and retrieval, and the
application of this knowledge to progress towards organisational,
community or personal goals,” she says.
This is exactly what Unit 3, outcome 2 addresses. To quote from the
study design p 2, "Information systems that are netwoked can suppot
collaborative problem-solving and the sharing of knowledge between
individuals, employees and organisations. Students develop an
understanding of the variety of settings in which networked information
systems are used in our knowledge-based society for the applications of
collaborative problem-solving and knowledge sharing by real and virtual
teams"
Knowledge management is the capturing of the espoused, explicit and
expert knowledge of an organisation's employees/members so that it is
not lost if anyone leaves and that it can be shared among all employees
so that all can develop professionally (becoming a learning
organisation). This also involves capturing and sharing project team
deliberations/decisions and tracking progress on projects, reflections
on team operations etc so that future teams can learn from earlier teams
experiences, future team leaders can identify appropriate people to
invite onto their projects and more. This all is directly related to IT
Apps.
Further, IT Apps is broader than knowledge management. It also studies
the use of spreadsheet and database software to solve information
problems. These may be related to knowledge management but are more
likely to focus on business operations.
Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs College
Stephen Loosley wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Remember the long list discussions regarding the ipm name change?
>
>'Knowledge Management' does seem the info-tech 'mind-set' Victoria
>needs and The University of Melbourne would certainly seem to agree.
>
>One would urge that VCAA and VITTA support this initiative, long term.
>
>www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/futurestudents/courses/postgraduate/programs/knowlman/
>
>In a world first, the University of Melbourne has drawn on the expertise
>of three leading faculties – Education, Economics and Commerce, and
>Science – to teach the Master of Knowledge Management (MKM), which
>tonight sees its first cohort of students walk across the graduation stage.
>
>As one of the ten masters recipients, Alice Freyne, wasted no time applying her
>newly acquired knowledge management skills to her role as CEO of a research
>based company. The company specialises in the application of animation to
>explain the details of surgical procedures to patients.
>
>“This research project involves surgeons communicating their needs to animators
>and IT professionals. These were like-minded people in many ways, but all coming
>from different perspectives and talking different ‘languages’. It is my role to bring the
>project together and encourage ongoing communication. Undertaking the masters
>also taught me that when you bring in a new system, regardless of the context –
>health, IT, corporate – new ways of learning are needed. It helped me understand
>why people may resist new systems.”
>
>A slippery concept to define, knowledge management has become a catchphrase
>of corporate culture. Professor Gabriele Lakomski, the Course Director of the KM
>program in the Faculty of Education, explains,
>
>“Knowledge management is a relatively new term for an old challenge. KM supports
>knowledge creation, sharing, storage and retrieval, and the application of knowledge
>to progress towards organisational, community or personal goals.”
>
>The University of Melbourne’s Dean of Education, Professor Field Rickards explains
>the significance of the Masters program and tonight’s ceremony, “The graduation of
>these ten students from this one-of-a-kind degree represents a great success in the
>Faculty and University’s history. Adopting a multidisciplinary view of postgraduate
>education will be the way of the future. This is not just an Education Faculty story, but
>really exemplifies the innovative programs that the University is offering, and the
>collaboration between faculties.”
>
>Further information about the Master of Knowledge Management can be found at:
>www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/futurestudents/courses/postgraduate/programs/knowlman/
>or by contacting Professor Gabriele Lakomski lakomski at unimelb.edu.au
>
>Media : http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/news/media/releases.html
>--
>
>Regards all ..
>Stephen Loosley
>Victoria, Australia.
>
>
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