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.