Guest Lecturer Dr.Ruzaimi Mat Rani

                       Today, We have good news from our lecturer. We have a guest, His name is Dr.Ruzaimi Mat Rani. Who is he? that is my first question when I heard his name. Maybe he is a famous guy in Malaysia,

That's why I am so excited in class today. What will he teach me? Can he inspired or motivation to me?.................After 5 minutes, I said "wowww!!" he is a nice guy. He have many experience in k-economy and today, he gonna share his knowledge with us.

                        Begin with his background, He graduted bachelor of architecture from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and got his master in landscape architecture (Waterfront design development) from Edinburgh college of art (ECA), Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland. He has been PhD of Visual Impact Assessment in Multimedia University since 2012. He has written a lot of books about how to sketching and drawing in easy ways such as "Sketching Basics, one point perspective" and "Sketching MasterClass". Everybooks, he wrote begin with the beginning of landscape picture, easy to follow and easy to understand.

                      Moreover, He share an excellent experience and itinerary in publishing his book to the world in our class. What was inspired him to publishing the book, He said "I love to sketch anything related to built environment and I was thinking If I die tomorrow, my knowledge will have gone with me.". So, he start writing the book and share his knowledge in his book as well. He gave us a nice tips on how to share knowledge and get your book published. "How can we write and publish the book?" my classmate asked him, He answer "Just start writing!!!". "Nice answer" I thought. Presently, He have many books interpret in local and another country, Thailand, Japan and Korea. I can't even imagine How much he earn in one year from his knowledge sharing. That's a lot surely.

            You can see his blog and lessons that he gave in below : 

            http://www.saatchionline.com/ruzaimi

            http://freedrawinglesson.blogspot.com/

Where is Knowledge???

Explicit, Implicit and Tacit Knowledge

In the KM literature, knowledge is most commonly categorized as either explicit or tacit (that which is in people's head). This characterization is however rather too simple. but a more important point, and criticism, is that it is misleading. A much more nuanced and useful characterization is to describe knowledge as explicit, implicit, and tacit.

Explicit : Information or knowledge that is set out in tangible form.
Implicit : Information or knowledge that is not set out in tangible form but could be made explicit.
Tacit : Information or knowledge that one would have extreme difficulty operationally setting out in tagible form.

The danger of the explicit-tacit dichotomy is that by describing knowledge with only two categories, i.e.,explicit, that which is set out in tangible form, and tacit, that which is within people, is that it then becomes easy to think overly simplistically in terms of explicit knowledge, which calls for "collecting" KM methodologies, and tacit knowledge, which calls for "connecting" KM methodologies, and to overlook the fact that, in many cases, what may be needed is to convert implicit tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge, for example the after action reports and debriefings described below.

Knowledge from my classmate.

Hi Guys!!! I got some nice video shooting presentation from my classmate. I guaranteed it's easy to understand. Please watch and kind of comment. Thx u.

Enterpreneurship : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fck03DetgT8&feature=youtu.be

Motivation  in KM : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdxuPSjL3T4&feature=share

Change Management in KM : http://www.youtube.com/watcbh?v=HWj9OB5-J1o&feature=youtu.be

My Video Shooting Presentation : Leadership

Hi guys!!! I got first experience with video shooting presentation. This is my first time to present something in English language in front of big camera and green background. All I want is a comment from you my viewers because everything you wrote can upgrade my skill. The thing I can give it back to you are some knowledge that I talked in this video. I did it with my best and hope you will enjoy. Thank you so much I am appreciate that. ^___^  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQoYHyQ0hQg

The Value of Knowledge Management

Some benefits of KM correlate directly to bottom-line savings, while others are more difficult to quantify. In today's information-driven economy, companies uncover the most opportunities — and ultimately derive the most value — from intellectual rather than physical assets. To get the most value from a company's intellectual assets, KM practitioners maintain that knowledge must be shared and serve as the foundation for collaboration. Yet better collaboration is not an end in itself; without an overarching business context, KM is meaningless at best and harmful at worst. Consequently, an effective KM program should help a company do one or more of the following:

Foster innovation by encouraging the free flow of ideas


Improve decision making


Improve customer service by streamlining response time


Boost revenues by getting products and services to market faster


Enhance employee retention rates by recognizing the value of employees' knowledge and rewarding them for it


Streamline operations and reduce costs by eliminating redundant or unnecessary processes

These are the most prevalent examples. A creative approach to KM can result in improved efficiency, higher productivity and increased revenues in practically any business function.

History of KM

History of Knowledge Management

1. 70's, A number of management theorists have contributed to the evolution of knowledge management

• Peter Drucker: information and knowledge as organizational resources
• Peter Senge: "learning organization"
• Leonard-Barton: well-known case study of "Chaparral Steel ", a company having knowledge management strategy 

2. 80's, 

• Knowledge (and its expression in professional competence) as a competitive asset was apparent
• Managing knowledge that relied on work done in artificial intelligence and expert systems
• Knowledge management-related articles began appearing in journals and books

3. 90's until now,

• A number of management consulting firms had begun in-house knowledge management programs
• Knowledge management was introduced in the popular press, the most widely read work to date is Ikujiro Nonaka’s and Hirotaka Takeuchi’s The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (1995)
• The International Knowledge Management Network(IKMN) went online in 1994
• Knowledge management has become big business for such major international consulting firms as Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, and Booz-Allen & Hamilton

What's Knowledge Management (KM)? & Why is it so important?

Knowledge Management (KM) is the organizational effort to improve business results by influencing people through what they read, the conversations they have, and the numbers they use.

KM become matters because, after your organization has automated and outsourced everything it can, the last thing left is people making decisions and doing work based on what they have read, the conversations they have, and the numbers they use. It is particularly important for larger organizations. 

KM is hard to do because it is the most sophisticated of management techniques requiring

- a keen understanding of the organization and its capabilities.

- clarity around the business strategy and the desired results.

- a subtle approach that influences people.

- the cross-silo combination of new and existing organizational capabilities (IT, business strategy, design, change management, information architecture).