F29KM Knowledge Management

Jenny Coady

Course co-ordinator(s): Jenny Coady (Edinburgh), Joolekha Bibi Joolee (Dubai).

Aims:

  • To provide students with an overview of information and knowledge management in organisations
  • To critically evaluate a range of methods used to develop strategies for information and knowledge management
  • To examine the role that knowledge and users play in the learning organisation
  • To critically evaluate the value of knowledge and IT for competitive advantage

Detailed Information

Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.

Pre-requisites: none.

Location: ALP, Dubai, Edinburgh.

Semester: 1.

Syllabus:

  • Information and Knowledge Management in Organisations
  • Principles of Knowledge Management: information mapping and information audits
  • Knowledge elicitation and representation
  • Information strategy development
  • Knowledge and IT for competitive advantage and as a corporate resource
  • The learning organisation
  • Planning for Knowledge Management within an organisation and the ethical issues which arise

SCQF Level: 9.

Credits: 15.