Knowledge Management Course

Wrap Up

LIS 880Knowledge Management

Dominican University

Why a Final Wrap Up?

• LIS 880 offers a lot to digest• Organizational behavior / psychology• Human Information Behavior (HIB)• HR• Business • Philosophy• Information Science• Information Management

• Comparative analysis – what you knew versus what you know

7 Things We Learned

1. Knowledge management might not be what you think it is

2. The complexity of organizations

3. Learning Organization

4. Knowledge Management vs. Information Management

5. Capturing knowledge is more difficult than representing it

6. KM tools & approaches needed to build a program

7. Translating and mapping information to knowledge

This Course is Different

• Not special, but different

• You can use a lot of the material in this course even if you never go into KM

• A lot of opportunities for cross application

What Now?

• A good course should open new doors

• A good course should raise more questions in the student than it answers

• And, it should give students future direction

• What courses can supplement this course?

Information Management

• LIS 717 Human Records & Society

• LIS 732 Indexing & Abstracting

• LIS737 Online Information Systems

• LIS 750 Information Storage & Retrieval

• L751 Database Management

• L753 Internet Fundamentals & Design

• LIS 886 Record & Information Management

More Knowledge Management

• LIS 726/EDU 528 Learning theories, motivation and technology

• LIS 756 / GSB 624 Organizational Analysis

• LIS 789 Advanced Topics in Knowledge Management

Further Readings

• There are a lot of books to read on the topics covered in the course

• Will post a bibliography

• Send me titles if you know of a related book not covered on the list

The End

• Thank you for attending

• Thank you for your input

• Thank you for the wonderful comments

• Keep in touch!