Knowledge management practices in universities: The role of communities of practice

Dei, De-Graft Johnson; Walt, Thomas B. van der

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100025

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“…These knowledge assets could be used to create value that translates to innovations (Sveiby, 2001) and include intangible resources of intellectual capital (IC) (Kok, 2007) derived from tacit and explicit knowledge. The process of managing knowledge assets in such a way that motivates knowledge sharing, creation, acquisition, storage and dissemination will lead to improved productivity, performance, problem-solving, innovation and decision-making (Bhagwath, 2014;Dei & van der Walt, 2020;Kok, 2007;Lev, 2001;Marr et al, 2003;Tsuneo, 2001) for those enterprises and organisations that operate in the sanitation management sector. Based on literature, the Sani-KM processes include the following (see Figure 9.1):…”

Section: Sanitation Knowledge Management (Sani-km) Processesmentioning

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“…Thus, to understand the operations of social interactions within the SaniM-KVC, the concept of communities of practice is key (Lowit et al, 2015). Multiple Sani-CoPs can come together to form larger 'landscapes' of practice with the potential to support social learning and innovations and also enable cross-learning (Dei & van der Walt, 2020;. In fact, the SaniM-KVC comprises of CoPs within the different stakeholders and organisations it brings together (even across landscapes of practice) (Lowitt et al, 2015) such as sanitation = health, water hygiene, climate, governance, behaviour, economics, and so on.).…”

Section: Sanitation Knowledge Workers (Sani-kwers) and Experts (Sani-...mentioning

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Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

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The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for development actions and also serve as a market systems approach to improve access to safely-managed sanitation. It has been suggested that sanitation could boost local and national economies and global interconnections with a growing recognition that the private sector can play a bigger role in delivering the Sustainable Development Goal for sanitation, and help businesses understand value-added and product opportunities. This book proposes a pathway towards re-thinking the sanitation value chain (SVC) and suggests that it should cover all processes, activities and products of enterprises/actors in the sanitation supply chain that provide value-added services within each stage. Following the Regenerative Sanitation Principles, this book presents a new perspective to the SVC known as the ‘integrated functional sanitation value chain’ (IFSVC) to address operational functions within sanitation systems in combination with sanitation enterprises, operators and external actors that support the growth of the sanitation economy. The underlying premise of this book is that the IFSVC represents a new perspective that would have major social, environmental and economic implications for local, national, regional and global sanitation service delivery. It is hoped that researchers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials and funders will find this book valuable, and be inspired and enabled to carry sanitation work forward in their own spheres of operation. The book gives several examples of encouraging developments, particularly in technical and business model innovation. It is our hope that this book will provide the stimulus for new learning and its application, particularly through cross-disciplinary and cross-sector partnerships that bring together all the skills and capabilities needed to deliver a fully effective IFSVC. ISBN: 9781789061833 (print) ISBN: 9781789061840 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789061857 (ePUB)

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Section: Sanitation Knowledge Management (Sani-km) Processesmentioning

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Section: Sanitation Knowledge Workers (Sani-kwers) and Experts (Sani-...mentioning

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Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

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“…Se considera que los recursos en estas tecnologías tienen un impacto positivo en la TC (Kapoor y Aggarwal, 2021; Vega-González y Vega-Salinas, 2020). Se han explorado cuatro modelos de TC: la tutoría, el trabajo en equipo, el coaching y la colaboración profunda (Becerril Elías y Merrit, 2021; Dei y van der Walt, 2020;McMillan, 2016;Papa et al, 2020).…”

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La transferencia del conocimiento y las capacidades de medición y calibración en laboratorios nacionales de metrología

Castro-Galván

Cázares-Garrido

2022

Rev. CEA

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El proceso de declaración de las capacidades de medición y calibración implica que de forma continua los laboratorios nacionales de metrología se actualicen en temas nuevos, participen en comparaciones internacionales para demostrar sus capacidades técnicas e implementen nuevos servicios de medición derivados de las comparaciones. La capacidad de absorción de una organización, en el contexto de las capacidades dinámicas, es la habilidad para identificar el valor de un nuevo conocimiento exterior, asimilarlo y convertirlo en un producto comercial. Esta capacidad de absorción es un mecanismo interno de una organización para poder evaluar cuánto del conocimiento externo es capaz de asimilar dados sus conocimientos internos. El objetivo de este estudio se centra en evaluar la posible conexión de las capacidades de medición y calibración con el desarrollo de nuevos servicios de calibración para proponerlos como indicadores de la transferencia del conocimiento y de la capacidad de absorción de los laboratorios nacionales de metrología. Se estudiaron tres laboratorios nacionales de México, Brasil y Argentina, para un análisis descriptivo del número total de CMC en el periodo de 2001 a 2020, utilizando la base de datos de la oficina internacional de pesas y medidas. Debido al escaso número de datos públicos, solo para México se relacionaron las capacidades declaradas con sus servicios de medición, así como la posible relación de crecimiento de nuevos clientes. Se encontró que el proceso de declaración de capacidades de medición y calibración es continuo y se relaciona directamente con la creación de nuevos servicios de medición y de nuevos clientes, por lo que se propone como un indicador de transferencia del conocimiento de la organización. Sin embargo, es necesario buscar más información empírica en un análisis posterior a profundidad debido a que actualmente no se han encontrado investigaciones que estudien este proceso sistemáticamente.

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“…Ці підсистеми є вкрай важливими в університетському середовищі, адже логіка їх розвитку та взаємодії впливає на формування загальних і фахових компетентностей у здобувачів вищої освіти та сприяє набуттю необхідних вмінь і навичок, які затребувані на ринку праці. Загальноочікуваними для університетської спільноти результатами є перевірка на практиці отриманих знань, стимулювання взаємодії, прискорення обміну знаннями та досвідом, сприяння навчанню, створення нових знань, ефективна адаптація нових членів тощо (Dei, Walt, 2020).…”

Section: управління знаннями та інформацією як чинник забезпечення якості вищої освіти: зарубіжний досвідunclassified

Knowledge and Information Management as a Factor of Higher Education Quality Assurance at Universities: Foreign Experience

Kalinicheva

2021

Continuing Professional Education: Theory and Practice

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Today in a rapidly changing competitive environment each university faces the need to constantly transform the knowledge and information management system, to respond quickly, to predict and to apply new forms of change management that determine managerial innovations and their efficiency. Conceptual approaches and practical experience of the knowledge and information management system formation and functioning at a modern university have been studied in the article. The purpose of the article is to highlight the theoretical foundations of the knowledge management system formation and to compare the experience in organizing the process of knowledge and information management at leading foreign higher educational institutions. Based on the analysis of the models and the practical implementation of knowledge and information management, the author's vision of important components in the knowledge management system at modern educational institutions has been suggested. Taking into account the active use of the latest information and communication technologies in higher education systems of the majority of the world’s countries, the importance of their application in the educational activities of participants in the educational process and in managerial activities of the administrative staff at universities has been stressed. This will optimize knowledge and information management at universities and will contribute to improving higher education quality, creating a competitive advantage in the market of educational services. The practical importance of knowledge and information management at university lies in the fact that the transfer of accumulated knowledge is aimed at the formation of competitive specialists, and in the fact that generation of new knowledge multiplies intellectual capital, provides competitive advantages and increases the competitiveness of the economy and society of any country.

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Knowledge management practices in universities: The role of communities of practice

Cited by 44 publications

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Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

La transferencia del conocimiento y las capacidades de medición y calibración en laboratorios nacionales de metrología

Knowledge and Information Management as a Factor of Higher Education Quality Assurance at Universities: Foreign Experience

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