This is a 3rd year elective unit in the BITS. It is on the elective schedule for students interested in obtaining accreditation from ALIA or RMAA or ASA. It aims to prepare students for professional practice in business information, knowledge and content management and appreciate the role of the modern ICT in achieving efficient strategies for managing personal and organisational knowledge.

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is one of the elective units needed for professional recognition purposes with ALIA, RMAA and ASA, and is part of the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS). It is co-taught with FIT5088 and draws on topic areas previously covered in IMS3012 and IMS3611.

This unit address the aim of the Faculty to produce skilled information and knowledge management (IKM) professionals, including information and knowledge managers, information architects, information policy developers, information project managers and information consultants for business and government organisations. This unit is within the Faculty's research strength related to COSI.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand organisational contexts of technological infrastructures and emerging technological frameworks for electronic information and knowledge management systems, including intranet and Internet environments;
• appreciate 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 minimise their weaknesses;
• identify and select from appropriate strategic options for designing and implementing an information and knowledge management system;
• 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;
• conduct requirements identification, design and deployment of information and knowledge management systems.

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This unit provides students with 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.

On-campus and Off-Campus Learning(OCL)

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

2 hrs lectures/wk, 1.5 hr tutorial/wk

Please allocate tutorials in room B 3.52

FIT

FIT2001 or equivalent

Frada Burstein