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How Can Studying Knowledge Media Design Help You With A Career in KM
How Can Studying Knowledge Media Design Help You With A Career in KM
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How can KMDI help you with a career in Knowledge Management? Joel Alleyne January 2009 www.kmdi.org Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto
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KMDI Alumni Adjunct Instructor iSchool Medicine KMDI Practitioner in Residence PhD Candidate Consultant Manager Entrepreneur CKO / CIO – large law firm Action Researcher
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" Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody – either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action“ Peter Drucker
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<ul><li>"To conceive of knowledge as a collection of information seems to rob the concept of all its life… Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters." </li></ul><ul><li>West Churchman </li></ul>
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<ul><li>“ The economic problem of society … is not merely a problem of how to allocate ‘given’ resources – if ‘given’ is taken to mean given to a single mind … It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society … a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” </li></ul><ul><li>Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society , </li></ul><ul><li>American Economic Review , </li></ul><ul><li>No 35 (September, 1945) pp. 1 - 18 </li></ul>
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KM Definitions <ul><li>The strategic use of information and knowledge resources to an organization’s best advantage. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>www.gov.bc.ca/prem/popt/service_plans/srv_pln/pssg/appen_a.htm </li></ul></ul>
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KM Definitions <ul><li>Knowledge management (KM) is the organization, creation, sharing and flow of knowledge within organizations. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management </li></ul></ul>
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“ the optimal use of an organizations knowledge assets” … my working definition
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Things You Can Do In KM <ul><li>People </li></ul><ul><li>Process </li></ul><ul><li>Technology / Infrastructure </li></ul><ul><li>Systems </li></ul>