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ISYS4450: Knowledge Management Systems
2025 unit information
The need to track and facilitate the sharing of the core knowledge resources in contemporary organisations is widely recognised. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the area of Knowledge Management (KM) from both technological and organisational perspectives. We will review and discuss a range of published papers, case studies, and other publications that deal with a range of important KM-related topics. One of the key knowledge management technologies, Business Intelligence Systems, will be covered in detail. It will also include hands-on work using the BI (Online Analytical Processing- OLAP) tool, COGNOS. Some of the main themes to be covered will include: KM- Conceptual Foundations; Taxonomies of organizational knowledge and KM mechanisms; Case/Field Studies of KM Initiatives; Data Warehousing and OLAP/Business Analytics; Data, text, and web mining; Social media, crowdsourcing, and KM; Big data and actionable knowledge.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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(DATA3888 or COMP3888 or COMP3988 or CSEC3888 or ISYS3888 or SOFT3888 or ENGG3112 or SCPU3001) and ISYS2160 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ISYS5050 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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A major in a computer science area |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate effective project and teamwork skills
- LO2. understand the conceptual foundations and technological underpinnings of KM
- LO3. critically read the research and related literature on knowledge management
- LO4. understand the interplay between technical and organisational issues in implementing and using KM systems
- LO5. conduct an extended requirements analysis of knowledge management tools/systems and be able to identify and monitor changing information and knowledge needs of in the broad domain of knowledge management
- LO6. provide in-depth analytical reporting of knowledge management tools/systems and convey extensive consideration of theoretical and methodological issues of important knowledge management related topics
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