Preliminary study : knowledge attic of organisational memory system

Abstract

Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming more and more important tools for managing organizational knowledge. Currently, many organizations have implemented KM strategies and KM applications for maintaining competitive advantages. Due to that, knowledge has become the most important asset in those organizations. One of the key benefits that can be provided by KM is to improve efficiency of workers when performing their operations. KM can improve learning cycle of knowledge worker and produce better practices among them. One of the factors to be successful organization is how they transform the personal's of employee as well as knowledge stored on passive knowledge assets such as manual procedures, policies or books, into organizational knowledge and make it widely available according to the organizational specific context. In the context of student's supervision, for example, supervising student's project, many lecturers or academic supervisors facing the problem to get standard rules, policies and decisions when examining the projects. As a result, the performance when evaluating the project becomes lacking and inconsistent, especially to the new supervisors. Besides this, the knowledge of experienced supervisor is difficult to share whereby it can be obtained within the organizations. This paper meant is to present preliminary study on how KM concepts can be applied to demonstrate Supervisor Advisor System (SAS). At this stage, this paper will propose the general framework the architecture of SAS. This framework will be used as a starting point for realizing SAS which will be used to facilitating supervison of undergraduate student project.