This wiki used to be the place where Andre Saito from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology gatherd notes and references for his PhD research on Knowledge Management education. (see research proposal below) Unfortunately the wiki is no longer available but luckily most of it’s valuable content is archived by the WayBack Machine.
knowledge work
Concept for preparing students for knowledge management
Abstract: In today’s society the ability to practice individual knowledge management has become a core competence. Schools are still the most important institutions for education and thus it is their duty to prepare students for their future (professional) life. Imparting knowledge management competences is a basic necessity that can be beneficial for the schools
Knowledge Management in Academia (AOK Star-Series)
Pre-Dialogue Remarks: KM in academic programs; How the academic context influences the KM that is taught; What / How should it be taught; KM applied to academia (physician heal thyself); Certification; How is knowledge management taught at the university?
Attributes of information service professionals for information and knowledge management
Abstract: A value learned by information service professionals in ‘information studies’ is the belief that the key to empowering people is sharing expertise and information, and collaborating across organisational boundaries and functional units. This belief has become part of the information professional’s ‘culture’, part of our value system – the normal and accepted way
Trends creating the Knowledge Manager of the Future
Abstract: The role of the manager as merely an overseer of workers is an artifact of the Industrial Age paradigm, no longer appropriate to the Knowledge Age. Increasingly, middle managers’ heads are on the chopping blocks of budget-tightening corporations, and those who fail to transform themselves into “player/coaches” will become obsolete, suggests Thomas H.