[Sigkm-l] IIMK MDP on "E 2.0: Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Management in the Smart Enterprise"

[Puna Das]

Management Development Programme on 
"E 2.0: Unlocking the Power of Knowledge Management in the Smart Enterprise"

Dates: August 16-18, 2010

Organized by: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), Kozhikode, Kerala, India

"The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge." –Peter Drucker

OVERVIEW
Knowledge has undoubtedly become the key economic resource and the dominant source of competitive as well as comparative advantage for the enterprise of the 21st Century. Knowledge Management (KM) is the ultimate way in which organisations can consciously and deliberately design aspects of their future and the cultural container that creates context for day-to-day interactions. It is an approach to adding or creating value by more actively leveraging the know-how, experience, and judgment within and, in many cases, outside an organization. Strong KM practices backed up by the robust enterprise-wide digital nervous system, compounded with the overall knowledge sharing culture of the enterprise, shall determine its sustained success.

COVERAGE
The 3-Day programme shall rigorously map and capture the strengths of Knowledge Management systems that enable the meticulous extraction, access and coordination of knowledge assets that are embodied in people as well as embedded in the processes and procedures being practiced by the enterprise. Technologies reviewed will include intranets, discussion groups/ collaborative spaces, social software & Web 2.0 tools, content management systems and knowledge repositories, in both individual and organizational contexts.

LEARNING OUTCOME
The programme shall enrich and ensure the participants to:
* Identify the key strengths and opportunities of KM that shall strengthen the enterprise’s productivity, efficiency and the future;
* Appreciate, discuss and deliberate on the great potential of the mathematical formulation on Corporate Knowledge Capital, K=(P+I)S, for the NewGen and Smart E 2.0s;
* Ascertain the range of options for applying KM in the organization and formulate new dimensions on the communities of practice (CoPs) for enterprise-wide knowledge sharing and managing, leveraging on technology;
* Deploy appropriate knowledge organization tools and techniques such as ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge structures and mapping, that shall enhance the organizational knowledge utility, consumption and its reuse;
* Systematically devise strategies and methods for the meticulous capturing, integration and transformation of the unstructured, disconnected and disparate information pieces into useful knowledge assets;
* Ensure the seamless flow of information and knowledge through the enterprise digital nervous system;
* Design, launch and operate customized collaborative discussion groups and knowledge sharing platforms for improved collective intelligence of the enterprise;
* Have hands-on experience on an array of Knowledge Management and Content Management softwares belonging to the open source and the proprietary domain.

PEDAGOGY
The pedagogy will be a mix of Lectures, Discussions, Case studies, Live Deoms and Hands-on Sessions. Each participant shall also be provided with a CD-ROM comprising of the suite of softwares, faculty presentations, and other related reading material.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE
The programme would be of interest to all those who are in the business of managing knowledge, business intelligence, information management strategies and related domains such as KM Professionals, Team Leaders, HR Managers, Information Professionals, IT and Software Professionals from India and abroad.

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Dr. M.G. Sreekumar

LAST DATE
Nomination forms duly filled along with the Course Fee should reach the MDP Office latest by August 2, 2010.

Participation FEE
Residential: INR 19,500 or equivalent in USD (about 420 USD)
Non-Residential: INR 16,500 or equivalent in USD (about 360 USD)

Further Details: http://www.iimk.ac.in/mdp/MDP2010/201011MDP20.php

Download Brochure and Application Form: http://www.iimk.ac.in/mdp/MDP2010/pdf/201011MDP20.pdf

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Dr Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/
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