SAT – Knowledge Management (KM)

As the new-knowledge based economy continues to evolve, knowledge is being recognized as a crucial business asset and considered a critical component of organizational capabilities. KM will be defined here as – the capacity to create, manage, control and leverage an organization’s intangible assets. For most medium and large sized companies, it is not practical to have a KM initiative or knowledge strategy without having IS technologies (or ICT) in place. ICT are poised to play a significant role in knowledge management implementation and in strategies that are knowledge-based. In this context, organizations can be seen as distributed knowledge systems, or as knowledge repositories. Therefore, the ability to manage knowledge is rapidly becoming a crucial skill for securing and maintaining organizational success and surviving in the knowledge economy. The academic research of KM is a relatively new academic area that is growing in importance.

Knowledge Management SAT will comprise the following topics:

KM milieu: KM and ICT Systems (e.g. embedded knowledge), People (tacit, explicit knowledge) and Policies/Procedures.

KM and Organizational Strategy (formulation and implementation), Structure, Culture and Leadership.

Organizational KM Practices: Intellectual (Human, etc.) Capital; Customer Knowledge; Enterprise Knowledge; Business intelligence; and Outsourcing.

Vertical (industry/area specific) KM: Healthcare knowledge; Agricultural knowledge; Nuclear industry knowledge; Banking knowledge; e-learning (educational knowledge); etc.

KM processes: New Knowledge creation; Knowledge streams (transfer, sharing, etc); Organizational Memory (modeling, maps, etc.); Collaboration and shared cognition; and Measurement and learning.

KM conduit: Individual (and intra); Groups (inter and intra); Organizations (inter and intra); and Networks (inter and intra).

Meir Russ - Committee Chair

Dr. Meir Russ received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and International Business. He also has an MBA and a B.Sc.E.E. from Tel Aviv University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Meir currently teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in management and marketing. His research interests include Knowledge-Based strategies, e-training and learning, the use of Knowledge Management for Hospital Preparedness and the Economic Development implications of ICT and the knowledge-based economy. Meir also does consulting with a number of multinational companies in the area of global strategic management and knowledge management.