Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is a relatively new concept that has a multidisciplinary substance and influences many human activities not only in a business environment.

The main goal of this subject is to introduce to students basic concepts of knowledge society, knowledge economy, knowledge management and its systems environment.

It also deals with theoretical aspects of knowledge management, practical case studies, principals, procedures, methods, techniques and tools. Students will discuss possibilities and limitations of particular information and communication technologies in concrete situations.

 

Study content:

  1. Knowledge society (man and cognition, the task of a science in the knowledge society)
  2. Knowledge economy (characteristics, indicators, assumptions of further development)
  3. The chain data – information – knowledge
  4. Knowledge worker, historical development and its current position in an organization
  5. Knowledge processes and knowledge-information infrastructure
  6. Knowledge management (particular perspectives)
  7. Knowledge management implementation
  8. Methods, techniques and tools for knowledge management
  9. Systems for knowledge management and their life cycles
  10. Future development of knowledge management
  11. Selected case studies
  12. Presentations and discussion about seminar works

 

Information resources:

Liebowitz, J.: Knowledge Management Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1999

McElroy, M.: The New Knowledge Management: Complexity, Learning, and Sustainable Innovation, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

Nonaka, I., Takeuchi, H.: The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995

Wiig, K.: Knowledge Management Foundation, Schema Press, 1993

Dalkir, K.: Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, Elsevier, Butterworth Heinemann, 2005

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