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Information Handling Qualifications and Knowledge Management in Small and Medium
| Title | Information Handling Qualifications and Knowledge Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) |
| Aidamount | 201.528 |
| Organization | Nordjysk Informatik- og Virksomhedsudvikling |
| Conclusion | Ingen side valgt |
| Homepage | No homepage |
| Contact | Keld Vestergaard, Project Manager, kv@novi.dk |
| Other participants | University of Aalborg, Centre, for Industrial Production
The Danish School of Librarianship, the Consultant Dept. |
| Theme | Education |
| Keywords | IT-qualifications |
| Project start | 20 February 2001 |
| Project end | 31 December 2001 |
| Description | Purpose
The purpose of the project is to enhance information handling qualifications in the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Information handling qualifications comprises several qualifications. Recognition and definition of information requirements. Identification of sources of information. Working out a search strategy. Assessing the relevance of the information found. This also includes computer and Internet skills.
The enterprise and the capability of each employee to find relevant information at the right time is crucial to competitiveness of enterprises in a knowledge based information society.
The enterprise should learn to manage the company inherent knowledge and recognize the type of knowledge required to stay competitive.
Goal
The project should contribute to maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the SMEs on local, national and global markets. This should give the enterprise and each employee a boost in qualifications and provide them with approaches to permanent learning. This is done by educating key persons. They will be presented to tools for solving strategic and practical tasks in their daily work. They will learn how to collect information and discriminate between cases where they can find information themselves, and the cases where they should consult a professional.
The goal is to render to the enterprise:
- Knowledge of information handling qualifications and knowledge management
- Recognition of the strategic importance of information handling qualifications and knowledge management
- Information strategies to solve specific tasks
- Help to work out a plan for utilizing the information handling qualifications
- Help to initiate and organise the initiatives
- Help for knowledge management
The project should result in the enterprise being capable of handling vital issues in the daily business:
- What knowledge is vital? Material- and production technology, competition, market etc.
- Where is this knowledge available? Within the company, or on the Internet, databases, etc.
- How is knowledge retrieved and assessed? At random or systematically – telephone, meetings, exhibitions and fairs etc.
- How is the knowledge handled internally? Registration and availability
Accomplishment
10 SMEs will be attending for one year at a time. The project lifetime is 3 years.
The project is accomplished with the following activities:
Workshop. Presentation, demonstration and discussions with specialists.
Courses at each company with an emphasis on the issues and information requirements of the company.
Virtual site. Forming a network. Distance learning in proficient use of the Internet for the participating companies. Public access to the project.
Consortium
The University of Aalborg, Centre for Industrial Production; the Danish School of Librarianship, the Consultant Dept. and Nordjysk Informatik- og Virksomhedsudvikling. |
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