12.2 INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SPRING 2005 AT ESPOO INSTITUTE

Knowledge Management is a discipline that takes a comprehensive, systematic approach to the information assets of an organization by identifying, capturing, collecting, organizing, indexing, storing, integrating, retrieving and sharing them. Such assets include (a) the explicit knowledge such as databases, documents, environmental knowledge, policies, procedures and organizational culture; and (b) the tacit knowledge of its employees, their expertise, and their practical work experience. It strives to make the collective knowledge, information and experience of the organization available to individual employees for their use and to motivate them to contribute their knowledge to the collective assets.

Information and Knowledge Management - six courses total 30 ECTS credits - provides competencies in the following areas: intellectual technologies, information technologies, knowledge of information users, uses and needs, knowledge of information-intensive contexts, and knowledge of information processes.

The programme aims to answer the increasing demand for professionals who understand the strategic importance of information and knowledge management.

12.2.1   OPTIONAL STUDIES

12.2.1.1   HT7523 Basics of Knowledge Management 3 CR 4.5 ECTS Credits

12.2.1.2   HT7524 Organisational Learning 4 CR 6 ECTS Credits

12.2.1.3   HT7525 Developing Process for Information Security 3CR 4.5 ECTS Credits

12.2.1.4   HT7526 Information Networking 3 CR 4.5 ECTS Credits

12.2.1.5   HT7527 Information Technologies in Information and Knowledge Management 4 CR 6 ECTS Credits

12.2.1.6   HT7528 Project Work 3 CR 4.5 ECTS Credits