[Year 12 IPM] Knowledge Management

[Wayne Hewett]

As important as KM is, expecially when related to schools and the
continuing loss of expertise staff, I wouldn't like to push it as a
major emphasis in the new course. I find it an enthralling subject and
enjoy reading Dixon,  Davenport and Prusak, but the philosophy of KM
stretches beyond the "hands on" aspect of ICT studies that students
enjoy. 

Wayne Hewett



>>> tigeroz at alphalink.com.au  >>>
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, sharin>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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