Programs

"Illuminate Your Organization: A Knowledge Management Framework for Knowledge Sharing" Webinar

On Line

28/04/2021

Overview

Knowledge management (KM) is focused on three pillars: people, processes and strategy.

To create effective KM solutions for an organization, it is necessary to understand its current organizational practices, including its strategic goals, knowledge needs and knowledge flows, and its use of technology to support those processes and to facilitate knowledge sharing. This workshop will present a KM framework that participants can use to guide their KM practices, including governance, knowledge capture (both explicit and tacit) and knowledge sharing, as well as benefit/reward systems for knowledge workers.

Objectives

Introduce KM concepts and frameworks.
Explore solutions that turn strategies into action through the integration of people, processes, documents, and technology components, including technologies that support those processes.
Present ideas and actions that library and information specialists can use to extract and exploit tacit and explicit knowledge in organizations.
Describe cultural practices and the value of knowledge sharing.

ًWebinar Moderators

Prof. Kendra S. Albright

Goodyear Endowed Professor in Knowledge Management, School of Information, Kent State University.
Editor-in-Chief of Libri, the international journal of libraries and information studies.
Teaches internationally in the field of knowledge management, including business intelligence, environmental scanning and information economics.
Studies how users understand and use information to facilitate positive change and solve organizational problems within the knowledge economies.
Serves as consultant to numerous corporations and government agencies.

Dr. William (Bill) Edgar

Information Educator (Instructor), Kent State University
Serves as a knowledge management consultant, providing guidance for project implementation, as well as knowledge identification and integration.
Conducts research in organizational strategy, knowledge management and librarianship.
Teaches library and information science and knowledge management graduate and undergraduate courses and conducts doctoral seminars.
Served as academic administrator and academic program manager, guiding strategic planning, curriculum, accreditation, finance, physical facilities, and scholarships.
Serves as consultant to industry and regional cooperatives in building knowledge management systems for community engagement.

Target Audience

Management and staff in any type of library and information center.
Library and information science students, researchers and educators.