F29KM - Knowledge Management

Course leader(s):

• Smitha Kumar (Edinburgh, September)
• Jenny Coady (Edinburgh, September)
• Smitha Kumar (Dubai, September)
• Ian Tan (Malaysia, September)

Syllabus

1. Information and Knowledge Management in Organisations

2. Principles of Knowledge Management: information mapping and information audits

3. Knowledge elicitation and representation

4. Information strategy development

5. Knowledge and IT for competitive advantage and as a corporate resource

6. The learning organisation

7. Planning for Knowledge Management within an organisation and the ethical issues which arise

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• distinguish between Data, Information and Knowledge to appreciate the links between them and the role of each one in organisations
• define and explain a range of principles in the theory of Knowledge Management in relation to their deployment in organisations
• evaluate the impact of the introduction of Knowledge Management programmes in organisations through case studies
• explain the concept of the Learning Organisation to illustrate how it can deliver competitive advantage
• compare and contrast methods for developing strategies for Knowledge Management in organisations
• evaluate the contribution of knowledge and IT in organisations to assess competitive advantage within the context of those two parameters.

Further details

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SCQF Level: 9

Credits: 15