Andre Saito at JAIST

Literature review: Outline

| References | K economy | KM theory | KM education |

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Three main topics:


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Questions to be answered in the literature review:

  • Why KM education? For whom? For what?
  • What is KM? What is it for?
  • What knowledge to manage? Content? People? Process?
Why is KM education needed? Why KM is needed?

The knowledge economy makes KM research necessary.

In the knowledge economy, knowledge becomes the main economic resource. The result is the emergence of knowledge-intensive industries and the growth of knowledge work and the knowledge worker.

KM deals with three types of knowledge: content, knowledge workers, and innovation. KM is necessary because there are common underlying processes in all three cases. Moreover, those processes are mostly incidental, circunstancial, contingent in the organizations nowadays, and KM makes them more intentional.

KM education for whom?

For the knowledge worker, the KM professional, the knowledge manager, and the [KM Manager].

 
 
 

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