CS5253 Knowledge Systems and Management in Organizations

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CS5253 Knowledge Systems and Management in
Organizations

• Dr. Pan Shan Ling
• SR1 10-12am Saturday
• Pansl_at_comp.nus.edu.sg

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Objectives of the Course

• Learn about Knowledge Management Concepts and
  Practices
• Learn about Focus Group Technique for your
  implementation of KM in organizations
• Learn about Identifying New Trends in the areas
  of Information Systems

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Grading

• 45 on Individual Research Paper (between 5000 to
  6000 words)
• 30 on Participation of 1 Focus Group Workshops
  and 1 Individual Report (lt1500 words)
• 10 Class Attendance
• 15 Quiz

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Some Deadlines

• Date for Focus Group Workshop 1 15/9/01
• Date for Focus Group Workshop 2 22/9/01
• Deadline for Focus Group Workshop 1 Report
  29/09/01
• Deadline for Focus Group Workshop 2 Report
  06/10/01
• Deadline for Individual Paper 13/10/01

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Some KM Books

• Davenport, Thomas H. and Laurence Prusak. Working
  Knowledge How Organizations Manage What They
  Know (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)
• Leonard-Barton, Dorothy. Wellsprings of
  Knowledge Building and Sustaining the Sources of
  Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 1995)
• Nonaka, Ikujiro and Hirotaka Takeuchi. The
  Knowledge-Creating Company (Oxford University
  Press, 1995)
• Stewart, Thomas A. Intellectual Capital The New
  Wealth of Organizations (Currency/Doubleday,
  1997)

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Periodicals

• California Management Review Berkeley, Spring
  1998 Vol.40, Iss.3".
• Journal of Business Strategy, January-February
  1998 v. 19 (Special Issue)
• Long Range Planning Special Issue on
  Intellectual Capital, June 1997
• Forbes ASAP Special Issue on Intellectual
  Capital, April 7, 1997
• Organizational Dynamics Theme Issue on "The
  Learning Organization Applications and Results,"
  Summer 1998

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For Next Week

• Return the Survey
• Start reading papers for the week after
• Nonaka, I. (1991). "The Knowledge-Creating
  Company", Harvard Business Review,
  (November-December) 96-104.
• Nonaka, I. (1994). A Dynamic Theory of
  Organizational Knowledge Creation", Organization
  Science, (5) 14-37.
• Nonaka, I.. (1998). "The Concept of Ba
  Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation",
  California Management Review, Spring, 40(3)
  40-54.