Innovation Management

All short courses are completed individually through technology-enhanced distance learning. You do not need to attend any classes. You have access to your lecture videos and other material on a weekly basis, and all your assignments are submitted online.

The fee is R 6, 900.00, which includes your online study material. Persons based outside South Africa can pay in US Dollars, Euros or GB Pounds. Payment of fees must be effected before access to the course.

English

Short courses are available internationally. A new cycle of short courses starts every first Monday of each month from February to November.

After completing this short course you will be able to:

• Define key knowledge management concepts.
• Differentiate between organisational culture and organisational climate, and discuss their interrelatedness with knowledge management, and how they contribute toward a learning organisation.
• Understand the significance of knowledge as an organisational asset and explain how managers can facilitate it at individual, group and organisational levels to create value added performance.
• Recognise the vital role of organisational learning as a catalyst for managerial decision making, creating business competitive advantage, and as tool to respond to industry changes.
• Describe the key roles and responsibilities required for knowledge management applications.
• Understand the key tenets of the major knowledge management theoretical models in use today.
• Describe how valuable individual, group, and organisational knowledge is captured, created, codified, shared, accessed, applied, and reused throughout the knowledge management cycle.
• Link the knowledge management frameworks to key knowledge management concepts and the major phases of the knowledge management cycle.
• Discuss how communities can be linked to organisational memory in order to foster organisational learning and innovation.
• List the different knowledge support technologies that can help users put knowledge into action.
• Understand the relation between organisational culture and the business context. How does culture contribute to organisational innovation and success?
• Describe the key communication technologies that can be used to support knowledge sharing within an organisation.
• Evaluate the link of organisational strategy with knowledge management.
• Evaluate Knowledge Management Systems, their role and importance for organisational development.
• Apply the benchmarking, house of quality, and balanced scorecard method metrics to knowledge management performance measurement systems.
• Incorporate and align knowledge assets more effectively into projects and programmes.
• Demonstrate the potential relationship between Knowledge Management and organisational transformation.
• Understand the use of knowledge management metrics for enhanced operational performance
• Conduct a knowledge management audit in the organisation.
• Design a knowledge management strategy linked with the overall organisational strategy.
• Develop and implement an effective knowledge management framework for sustained competitive advantage.

You will complete weekly online exercise assignments that combine to yield your final mark. The questions may involve multiple choice, a brief discussion of an important issue, or solving a short case study. Your final course mark will be based on the average of the weekly scores achieved. The final pass mark is 50%. A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course. Should you achieve a distinction (75% or higher), this will be so indicated on your certificate.

The course is open to anyone who is basically proficient in English and has internet access.