Educating Knowledge Management Professionals in the Era of Knowledge Economy

The era of knowledge economy has come, and "knowledge" has become a key resource for enterprises. How to keep creating and utilizing new knowledge has become an important topic for modern business administration. In the future, how to manage "knowledge" efficiently and effectively will be a crucial issue. However, due to differences in training backgrounds, people may have different perspectives on knowledge management; and effectiveness of knowledge management may not be maximized due to lack of integration. Because of this, the Departments of Library & Information Science, Business Administration, Information Management, and Computer Science & Information Engineering in National Taiwan University have worked together to propose a "Knowledge Management Curriculum Program" with an aim to educate and train allround knowledge management professionals. This paper begins with that knowledge management (KM) will be the trend of business administration in the 21st century, followed by the need to train cross-disciplinary KM professionals and channels for such training. Lastly, it takes "KM Curriculum Program, NTU" as an example to explain the ideas behind its education and training. Furthermore, by sharing of experiences, it is our hope to motivate other colleges and universities to draw up similar programs to train skillful KM professionals and to improve Taiwan's competitiveness in the business world. go to top