A KNowledge Management Vision
“The basic economic resource is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.”
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Educational Institutions need to tackle challenges of outdated teaching techniques. Leading education organizations around the world are focused on the concept of sustainable improvement. The primary goal is to create an environment that delivers better learning. A common theme that runs through all strategies for improvement is enhanced communication and collaboration between the important stakeholders groups in the education environment – students, alumni and parents, administrators and teachers. To enable such changes it is essential they create a robust collaborative Knowledge Management system which will be the propelling force that will help them achieve their goals. KM enables timely and effective collaboration on curriculum development, sharing of teaching best practices for benefit of organization, better online tools for managing daily information sharing between students & teachers, Case studies, Research & white papers and etc
KM METHODOLOGY – Reference to Educational industry [PROCESS]
Knowledge is what I know;
Information is what we know.
Interest in knowledge creation within the institution is growing at an astounding rate. The most effective way to create knowledge sharing culture is first to start practice at individual faculty level. Faculty with appropriate knowledge sharing mindset and the appropriate knowledge sharing technology to support them, the two together, will enable the creation of knowledge effectively. Once the knowledge is created, capturing takes place where in the knowledge database is created and all necessary data is been stored in the form of documents, white papers, Research works, Case studies and in various formats to be presented in usable format and there by making use of knowledge in the broader context. Massive amounts of resources on a daily basis will be present in a institution that they must gather, categorize, interpret and disseminate efficiently.
In certain situations, it can be more than threatening for a faculty to introduce knowledge into systems and actively search out that which others have introduced. It can also require a substantial amount of time and effort. Therefore, faculty needs to be highly motivated in order to undertake such work. It is only when a knowledge manager adopts the principle of knowledge sharing for the whole institution that knowledge is shared and reused spontaneously.
Knowledge, in addition to being shared between faculties, must be distributed by an institution to its faculty and management community. The dissemination of knowledge has a massive impact on the formation of competitive advantage. It is broadly agreed that in order to ensure the proper dissemination of knowledge it is necessary both to lubricate communication and nurture the right culture in the institution.
Knowledge, in addition to being shared between faculty members, must be distributed by an institution to its entire faculty community. The dissemination of knowledge has a massive impact on the formation of competitive advantage. Dissemination also requires the transformation of highly individualized tacit knowledge into more widely shared explicit knowledge. It is not the organizations which own the best knowledge that achieve competitive advantage but, rather, those that make the best use of it. In order to make the best use of knowledge it should be fully applied to the activities of the institution and this would require that all the other knowledge processes, namely, creation, dissemination and sharing, should be taking place.
KM STRATEGY- Reference to Educational industry
“Knowledge Management is the Innovative and Effective Aid to sustain the knowledge of the faculty and students to gain an edge in the industry”
Developing a knowledge management strategy provides a unique opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the way the institution operates, and the challenges that confront it. By focusing on identifying staff needs and issues, activities and initiatives can be recommended with the confidence that these will have a clear and measurable impact upon the institution. To be successful, a KM strategy must do more than just outline high-level goals such as ‘become a knowledge-enabled institution Instead, the strategy must identify the key needs and issues within the institution, and provide a framework for addressing these.
Knowledge management strategies and drivers must be reviewed from a human resources perspective. The Faculty development cell assists the leadership of an institution in identifying the sources of the required knowledge and the best way to capture it, as well as assessing mastery of knowledge among employees and determining the benefits of that assessment to the institution. Knowledge management can be considered successful if faculty understands how knowledge adds value, how it is created, and why it needs to be managed. The role of Faculty development cell can be summarized as follows:
(a) Training and developing knowledge workers (Faculty);
(b) Developing Asst. Professor, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers as knowledge coordinators;
(c) Building a knowledge-sharing culture.
(d) Developing Professors to be as a part of Km Team
KM ARCHITECTURE IN EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRY [TECHNOLOGY]
Knowledge has become the key driving force in the present day world. It is generally believed that the only source of competitive advantage in future will be the knowledge. Therefore, in this newly emerging environment, educational industry are required to develop successful KM Architecture, to achieve sustainable competitive advantage; this is possible only through KM Portal. KM architecture is the process which explains the technology and flow of knowledge among the knowledge workers. Knowledge workers include Faculty and students.
The following prototype will predict the knowledge flow and effectiveness of knowledge sharing in educational industry.
The prototype consists of three blocks through which knowledge flows:
- Faculty/ Student (Creation & Capture)
- Knowledge Management Team (Organise & Verify)
- Faculty/ Student/ Management (Access & Use)
First Block:
Faculty Shares the class/ subject resources, Cases, White Papers, Research work, Latest information about the subject and in general. The contents are stored in Documents, Presentations and etc and are stored category/ Function wise.
Second Block:
KM Team is formed and comprises of Subject matter experts based on there specialization. The experts can be Professors, Asst Professors level to review the stored documents and presentations. After verification key points are given to the faculty along with the feedback.
The verified knowledge is stored back to knowledge base for publication, paper presentations, etc and sent to third block
Third Block:
After the review process the Knowledge is available to other faculty, Students and management were the knowledge is shared and gained by others.
INDUSTRY
KM ORGANISATION [PEOPLE]
KM Organisation is the process of Creating KM Team and defining Roles & Responsibilities of the team members in Verifying the Knowledge Captured and Approval of the same.
With increasing emphasis on knowledge-based culture, management is seeking ways to get that knowledge under management remit. The goal is to manage this aspect of the enterprise in the same way as its physical and financial assets. Charged with this are the new roles of “knowledge managers” with responsibility for creating the environment and process for dealing with knowledge as a corporate asset
Central to current concerns is the issue of KM Team. Teams, ascribed as the powerhouse of the effective institution, are more intractable from a knowledge management point of view than individuals. By their very nature teams create a great deal of new knowledge, which as such is of high value to the institution. However, the knowledge of how and why they created what they created is more difficult to get at than an individual’s knowledge, since it exists in a number of different people, and also in their continuous interaction and collaboration.
Km Team comprises of SME’s (Knowledge Managers) which includes Professors, Asst. Professor and Research Associates. The Role is to verify the captured knowledge and send Feedback to the Knowledge Worker. “Key Points” (KP) are allotted to each knowledge worker based on there knowledge they have shared.
PROS OF KM IN TODAYS ECONOMY RECESSION
Economic recession has created a challenge among the students to be competent enough to gain advantage of the limited job opportunities. Thus, KM will help the students to sharpen there skill and be updated with the latest technology and insight of multidimensional concepts.
- Competent
- Knowledge about Latest technology
- Research skill
- Insight
- Collaborative Culture
- Team Work
- Conceptual Knowledge
CONCLUSION
KM itself has come a long way and has a long way to go from where it is now. It is indeed a long journey and the trip has just begun. Educational Industry has to sustain the knowledge of the faculty and students to gain an edge in the industry. This is possible only through ‘Effective implementation of Knowledge Management Portal’. A Key success factor in KM is getting optimal emphasis on each of the four focal area People, Process, technology and Content right from the early stages of deployment.
“Knowledge management is necessary for Education Industry because what worked yesterday may or may not work tomorrow”
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by the right persons to create more knowledge and value, achieve strategic business objectives & measurably improve performance. Please note that this video was inspired by another YouTube Video “NRCan KM Vision”, where most of the inspiring words came from them and I have to give them the credit for that. The footage and music are edited from another YouTube Video about Saudi Aramco from the “Marhaba Festival” in Brisbane, Australia. … Hamid M. Rowaihy Saudi Aramco Knowledge Management Team …
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I am vanitha, working as a faculty in leading management school in chennai, india. My area of interest is human resources, system, KM.
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The oldest way to prove that the earth's horizon is not flat is to do the old sailing ship on the ocean thing. The horizon IS curved, since the planet IS a ball floating in orbit around the sun. The way to see this is to watch a sailing ship either approaching or leaving. Better if it's approaching. You'll see the tops of the sails first, gradually seeing more and more of the ship as it approaches you.
Another way to determine the curve of the earth is to map the positions of various shadows (in different locations) at noon. If you map the shadow, or absence of a shadow of a skyscraper at noon, with the sun directly overhead, you're not going to get the same type of shadow mapped at from a skyscraper in another country or city far away from you (preferably one still experiencing daylight.) As for whether or not you can see the curve of the earth this way, the answer is no. But I HAVE actually seen the curve of the earth by watching the sun rise from a transatlantic flight. So if you really wanna see the Earth's curve…get on an airplane and go somewhere on the other side of the ocean.
The other stuff, such as the circumference of the earth…? Well, you'll have to look that one up yourself.
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Yes, it would take a certain amount of time for light to reach the other point, because light moves at a finite, constant speed of 3 x 10^8 m/s. This is one of the basic premises of Einstein's special relativity. However, it goes on to say that light moves at this finite, constant speed in any reference frame, meaning that if you are in space moving, say, 5000 m/s and your friend is moving towards you at 6000 m/s, the light between you will still only go 3 x 10^8 m/s. All of special relativity stems from this. One good book for more detailed explanations and derivations is Einstein's "Relativity," which is pretty straight-forward and has little math.
Speaking from the vantage point of one with some training in physics… You are entirely correct. Astronomers even take advantage of this effect by looking at extremely distant objects to see what the very early universe was like.
Very intelligent question! Good observation.
Additional: Some of the other answers are raising a valid point. (Good job, Silverskorpious and Johhny!) Space and time are not rigid and flat, but curved and pliable. However, the phonomenon still works since any amount of time passing bewteen the emission and perception of light still places the event firmly in the past by the time it's observed.
To some extent you are right. Everyone is a saint until proven otherwise.
Samething happened with match fixing and Azhar & Hansie.
One cannot deny that Bucknor is notorious for his biased decisions against India time and again. Could you please analyze why?
Bucknor is not the only one who made umpiring mistakes, Benson was also at fault. Is he also 61?
If not fixing there has been definitely a bias against India in this match.
You cannot argue that since couple of decisions went against Aus also, they were trying to make the situation even. That is just even more ludicrous.
It sounds like dehydration. The temperature was not too hot and you had not riden too far, so it seems a bit strange. In your discussion you do not mention drinking any liquids. How much had you had to drink up until then? As far as being out of breath, I do not know how old you are or what your maximum HR is, but for me 160 is about my anaerobic threshold, so as I start going above that I start getting winded.
I have also had similar symptoms (light headedness) in the Spring on the first warm (22C) day. I attribute that to acclimation to the weather after riding in cold temperatures. Another thing that comes to mind is hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). When had you last eaten and what did you have to eat? That can make you light-headed.
It is very hard to diagnose without more information, but any or all of those things could have contributed. I suggest that you make sure you drink plenty of fluids and if you are doing a long ride, take something for energy; energy drinks and/or energy bars of gels. On an average temperature day I finish off a normal sized water bottle in 20 miles and as it gets warmer I will come closer to two bottles (I suspect you are from Europe, so I am hoping that the water bottles are similar is capacity).
I hope that helps some. Safe cycling.
s = a×t²/2
s = 240m
a = g = 9.81m/s²
⇒ t² = 2s/a
⇒ t = √(2s/a)
t = 7s
So, Superman has got about 7 seconds to save Lois.
v = s/t
s = 1km
t = 7s
⇒ v ≈ 143 m/s
Superman has to fly at 143m/s to catch Lois just before she touches ground. I think he should hurry a bit to catch her some meters above ground for a soft deceleration.
Now, that would be easy, but there is a school bus that can't brake rolling down Rue Montmartre and Superman decides to save that bus first, because there are 20 children on board. Let's say Superman is in Place Joffre (about 1km from the Eiffel Tower). Superman has to go 3.4km to the school bus, stop the bus and go 3.7km to save Lois. That's a total of 7.1km in 7s. So, Superman has to go at Mach 3 with more than 1000m/s.
Later Superman will take Lois back to the bus and tell the driver that he should get the bus fixed. All the children say thanks to Superman.
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