Archive for November, 2009
Dynamic capability and knowledge management
Proponents of the learning organisation maintain that the cultural shifts noted above provide organisations with advantages. Productivity is increased and, because of the emphasis on being outward looking and on whole systems sensibility, organisational adaptability is improved. Creative adaptation or ‘dynamic capability’ arises from the genuine rather than rhetorical enactment of learning organisation principles, in [...]
Key Design Principles for a Knowledge Management Strategy
Based on the previous discussions, it is possible to extract a set of principles that should inform the design and implementation of a knowledge management strategy. These can be summarized as follows: 1. Start with Strategy Be clear what the objectives of a knowledge management strategy are, in order to ensure that knowledge management does [...]
Knowledge Management and Distance Education
One of the key attributes of distance education programmes is their requirement to approach educational planning and implementation more systematically than their face-to-face counterparts. To compensate for separation in time and space between educators and learners, well-functioning distance education institutions make significant up-front investments in development of structured curricula and materials, creation of flexible learner [...]