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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Knowledge Management

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
    • Management Processes
    • Management Functions
    • Strategic Management
    • Individual Behaviour
    • Group Behaviour
  2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
  3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
  4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
  5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
  6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
  7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
  8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

Programme Content

Overview

The aims of this module are to develop a critical appreciation of current theories and practices of information and knowledge management with a view to applying theoretical understanding of information and knowledge management to real life situations.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Discriminate between the nature of information and knowledge from a strategic perspective.
  • Justify placing theories of the strategic use of knowledge and information in the context of a diverse world.
  • Evaluate and present the application of ideas to practical contexts in a critical fashion.

Syllabus

  • Information and Knowledge – A strategic perspective.
  • Elucidating data, information, and knowledge.
  • Gearing information and knowledge for competitive advantage.
  • Technology for learning systems
  • The knowledge management designs
  • Information for performance management.
  • Knowledge, a networking asset for innovation
  • Information technology for the era of discontinuous change.
  • Information strategy and processes for diversity.
  • Measuring knowledge management outputs.

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Ashok Jashapara, Knowledge Management, An Integrated Approach, 2009, FT Prentice Hall
  • Amrit Tiwana, The Knowledge Management Toolkit, 4th Edition, 2008, FT Prentice Hall
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online data bases from IPE’s E Library