FIT5088 - Information and knowledge management systems
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Information Technology
Leader(s): Associate Professor Frada Burstein
Offered
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Synopsis
This unit provides students with the skills and knowledge relating to the use of latest technologies for managing knowledge, electronic documents and records to meet the needs of individuals, work groups and organisations. The unit aims to build a general understanding of technologies for managing personal and organisational structured and unstructured information and knowledge and the methods of developing systems to handle it. Students study the business context, requirements analysis techniques and implementation issues for electronic document management, recordkeeping, content and other information and knowledge management systems.
Objectives
By the completion of this unit students will have a theoretical and conceptual understanding:
- of organisational contexts of technological infrastructures and emerging technological frameworks for electronic information and knowledge management systems, including intranet and Internet environments;
- and appreciation for the capabilities and limitations of many products on the information and knowledge management systems market and how to use implementation strategies to maximise their strengths and minimize their weaknessess;
- to identify and select from appropriate strategic options for designing and implementing an information and knowledge management system;
- to participate in electronic document lifespan management, involving document creation within systems and the use of documents for workgroup, organisational and social purposes, appreciating how these aspects interrelate and influence each other;
- of conduct requirements identification, design and deployment of information and knowledge management systems.
Assessment
Examination (3 hours): 50%; Assignments: 50%
Contact hours
3 x contact hrs/week
Prerequisites
(FIT9003 and FIT9006) or IMS9001 or BUS5021
Prohibitions
IMS5033, IMS5330