Abstract: Although some KM professionals have well-defined roles and responsibilities, most tend to have multiple roles which change according to the immediate needs of their projects. This often makes it challenging to clearly define their varied responsibilities. This lack of definition makes it difficult to assess the skill-sets required for particular
Specialist Training: Cultivating Knowledge Management Professionals
Abstract: The growing importance of knowledge and innovation in the marketplace brings with it a need for the better management of professional knowledge for knowledge workers in the new economy. This chapter illustrates some major steps at the University of New South Wales, Australia, towards building an educational system for KM professionals that can
Evaluating thinking styles for knowledge management education
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a new perspective of the linear-nonlinear thinking style and its critical role in knowledge management education. Previous works in this field identified linear thinking as being rational, logic and analytic, and nonlinear thinking as being based on intuition, insight and creativity. In this perspective, linear
Knowledge Management Education in Digital Library Learning
Abstract: Knowledge management (KM) is one of the most engaging subjects in the modern knowledge-based economy, and many academic and professional disciplines have adopted KM education into their course programmes. Library and Information Science (LIS) is another academic discipline that has a lot to gain by incorporating the principles of KM. This paper aims
Specialization in IKMS for the Undergraduate CS Curriculum
Abstract: We describe our progress extending the undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curriculum to include a deep understanding of techniques for information and knowledge management systems (IKMS). In a novel five-course sequence, students build and work with techniques for data mining, information retrieval, and text analysis, and develop a large-scale IKMS project. We teach in