Educating Knowledge Management Professionals in the Era of Knowledge Economy

Abstract

The Era of knowledge Economy has come, and “knowledge” has become a key resource for enterprises. How to keep creating and utilizing new knowledge has become an important topic for modern business management. In the future, how to manage “knowledge” efficiently and effectively will be a crucial issue. However, due to differences in training backgrounds, people may have different perspectives on knowledge management; and effectiveness of knowledge management may not be maximized due to lack of integration. Because of this, the Departments of Library and Information Science, Business Administration, Information Management, Computer Science and Information Engineering in National Taiwan University have worked together to propose a “Knowledge Management Curriculum Program” with an aim to educate and to train all-round knowledge management professionals. This paper begins with that knowledge management (KM) will be the trend of business management in the 21st century, followed by the need to train cross-field KM professionals and channels for such training. Lastly, it takes “KM Curriculum Program, NTU” as an example to explain the ideas behind its education and training. Furthermore, by sharing of experiences, it is our hope to motivate other colleges and universities to draw up similar programs to train more skillful KM professionals and to improve Taiwan’s competitiveness in the business world. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

Keywords

• "knowledge economy
• knowledge management
• education and training
• curriculum program"