10ME666 Knowledge Management syllabus for ME


Part A
Unit-1 Knowledge Influences: Introduction 7 hours

External influences on organizations, Changing nature of management, Types of organizations, Strategic management in organizations, Knowledge management, Knowledge management an emerging concept, Model of strategic knowledge management.

Unit-2 Introduction to Key Concepts 6 hours

What is Management? Knowledge Management and business strategies, Knowledge intensive firms and Knowledge workers, Learning and Knowledge Management

Unit-3 Knowledge Creation and Loss 7 hours

Innovation dynamics and knowledge processes, characterizing innovation processes, innovation as an interactive process, knowledge creation and Nonaka, the social dynamics of innovation networking processes, forgetting and unlearning knowledge

Unit-4 Developing and Managing Knowledge Repositories 6 hours

Effective knowledge repositories, mapping the content structure, repository quality control, case studies (not for examination)

Part B
Unit-5 Design Knowledge Management System 7 hours

Introduction, Structure preserving design, Step 1: design system architecture, Step 2: identify target implementation platform, Step 3: specify architectural components, Step 4: specify application within architecture, design of prototypes, distributed architecture.

Unit-6 Socio-Cultural Issues 6 hours

Introduction, significance of cross community knowledge processes, characterizing cross community knowledge processes,identity, knowledge, trust and social relations, classification of boundary types, facilitating/managing knowledge between communities

Unit-7 Knowledge Leadership 6 hours

Introduction, contributions of disciplines to Knowledge Leadership, the generic attributes of knowledge leader, specific knowledge leadership roles, leading knowledge teams, leading a knowledge network, recruiting and selecting knowledge leaders

Unit-8 Information and Communication Technologies and Knowledge Management 7 hours

Introduction, linking knowledge management and ICTs, objectivist perspectives on ICT – enabled knowledge management, practice based perspectives on ICT enabled KM, the importance of accounting for socio cultural factors in ICT enabled KM, debates regarding the role of ICTs in KM processes.

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