The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Communities

Research Centres

• Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making (Centre for KDD)³⁾

Undergraduate Degrees/Programs

• Bachelor of Informatics Honours (Module 3/3: Information and Knowledge in Organisations & Research Assignment: Information Systems Management)
• BComHons in Information Systems Management (Module 3/3: Information and Knowledge in Organisations & Research Assignment: Information and Knowledge in Organisations⁴⁾)**
• BA Programme in Decision-making and Knowledge Management** ⁵⁾
• BPhil in Information and Knowledge Management**

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• Postgraduate Diploma in Knowledge and Information Systems Management (KISM PG Dip)⁶⁾
• Postgraduate Diploma in Decision-making and Knowledge Dynamics**
• MPhil in Information and Knowledge Management (MIKM) (by research)
• MPhil in Decision-making and Knowledge Dynamics (by research)⁷⁾
• MA in Socio-Informatics (by research)
• PhD in Decision-making and Knowledge Dynamics (by research)
• PhD in Socio-Informatics (by research)
• DPhil in Information Science (research area: Information and Knowledge Management⁸⁾)**

Courses

Short Courses⁹⁾

• Information and Knowledge Auditing and Mapping (IKAM) course**
• Knowledge Management – Leveraging your knowledge assets for competitive advantage**
• Internet – Information Retrieval and Personal Information Management Tools and Techniques**

Centre for KDD: Certificate Workshops

• Sense and Non-Sense about Knowledge Management (3 days)

Conferences

• 11th International Symposium on the Management of Industrial and Corporate Knowledge (ISMICK’06), August 27-30, 2006, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  Conference Theme: Innovation and Inter-organizational Knowledge Productivity
  (Co-organized with the Free University of Amsterdam (Department of Computer Science, Section Business Informatics), the University of Amsterdam (Leibniz Center for Law), and the University of Technology of Compiègne (Computer Science Department))
  Conference Tracks:
  Managing knowledge productivity in private organizations; Managing knowledge productivity in public administrations; Managing knowledge based innovation within and among organizations; Free Track

  Workshops:
  Eleven design principles for knowledge productivity

• Knowledge, Technology and Society Week (KTS week), 15-18 May 2006
  Conference program n.a.4

  Presentations:
  Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Economy
  New Entrants to the SA economy, Geek Entrepreneur’s View
  New Entrants to the SA Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
  Strategy: Combining Social Interest With Corporate Objectives
  Knowledge, Information and Decision making
  …n.a.

• Colloquium on Knowledge Dynamics, the Knowledge Economy and Africa, 28-29 July 2003, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  (Organizer: Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making; Sponsor: IBM Cynefin Centre)

Courses

USB Executive Development

• Certificate Programme in Knowledge Management: Leveraging your Knowledge Assets for Competitive Advantage**¹⁰⁾
  • 3-day foundation course: Knowledge Management: Leveraging your Knowledge Assets for Competitive Advantage
  • 1-day specialization course: Step-by-Step Guide to Knowledge Management Implementation
  • 1-day specialization course: Knowledge Networking, Social Network Analysis & Communities of Practice

Conferences

• USB Knowledge Management Conference 2012, January 16-18, 2012, Bellville (Cape Town), South Africa
  Conference Theme: The democratisation of knowledge: The role of knowledge in the betterment of society
  The objective of this ‘discussion-intense’ conference is to move from the theory on knowledge in social organisations, through the implications for society, to practical social policy-making to address the asymmetries of knowledge in society.

  Keynotes:
  Knowledge, democracy and society

  SESSION: Knowledge Dynamics: Theory, Characteristics and Behaviour KN
  Knowledge 101: knowledge data and information
  Socio‐economic aspects of knowledge
  The behaviour of knowledge in networks

  SESSSION: How Does Knowledge Behave in Organisations?
  Behaviour of knowledge in organisations
  Knowledge in praxis
  Knowledge in a global society

  SESSION: Knowledge implications for policy and society
  World Bank
  Business
  Public policy‐making (politician)
  South America (Brazil)
  Labour
  NGO
  Public sector
  

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Events

USB Leader’s Angle Talk Series

• Mar 2021: Making Knowledge Workers Effective: The Great Challenge for 21st Century Management
• Oct 2014: How knowledge management drives enterprise strategy
• Aug 2011: Managerial challenges involved in strategic knowledge management (Namibia)
• Sep 2010: Winning the knowledge game: Client and employee perspectives on managing knowledge