PV238 Understanding Knowledge Management for Building Knowledge Efficient Organization - An IT Perspective

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Parag Kulkarni (lecturer), prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Mon 17. 10. 12:00–13:50 C525, Tue 18. 10. 12:00–13:50 C525, Fri 21. 10. 10:00–11:50 C525, Mon 24. 10. 12:00–13:50 C525, Tue 25. 10. 12:00–13:50 C525, Mon 31. 10. 12:00–13:50 C525, Tue 1. 11. 12:00–13:50 C525, Fri 4. 11. 10:00–11:50 C525, Mon 7. 11. 12:00–13:50 C525, Tue 8. 11. 12:00–13:50 C525, Fri 11. 11. 10:00–11:50 C525
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course explores key KM and co-operative learning concepts that are critical for business, individual, and organizational performance to create sustainable value for stakeholders. Sustainable value creation is required to build sustainable competitive advantage Mere technology management and traditional KM may not be sufficient to achieve this goal. For IT companies management of knowledge is key issue because of changing requirements, uncertainties and dynamic environment. Unleashing the knowledge that lies in company's people, processes and experience and managing it with solid knowledge efficient framework is pressing need of time. The goal of this course is to build solid KM based foundation for IT professionals and students to cope up with the challenges faced during different phases faced due to changes, uncertainty, stress and friction.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to basics of KM and Learning
  • Lifecycles - Business lifecycle, product life cycle, project life cycle and knowledge and KM lifecycle
  • Co-operative Knowledge management during every phase of product development right from incubation to delivery and maintenance
  • Knowledge management theories and knowledge strategies (Concepts of Knowledge flow, knowledge loss and knowledge inefficiencies)
  • Organizational learning and learning organization
  • Concept of knowledge efficient organization - Journey from process based static organization to learning organization and learning organization to knowledge efficient organization
  • Knowledge management framework and processes
  • KM and Innovation, KM and Problem Solving
  • Knowledge management informatics and case-studies
Literature
  • Deliverance From Success - Parag Kulkarni and Mrudula Kulkarni - CTC Publication
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions, presentation
Assessment methods
There will be a group activity (two students in one group) to demonstrate all phases of KM for one case study at the end of course. This should be supported by presentation of the case and holistic KM objectives. An assignment and a simple one hour written test on concept review and project work. The participation in above activities and scoring above 50%.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: podle přítomnosti přednášejícího.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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