COURSE UNIT TITLE

: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SHIPPING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIY 6081 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SHIPPING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖMÜR YAŞAR SAATÇIOĞLU

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration

Course Objective

Learning and examining knowledge management in shipping companies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to understand principles of knowledge management in shipping companies
2   Ability to learn technologies used for knowledge management in shipping companies
3   Ability to examine systems for knowledge management in shipping companies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Overview of Knowledge Management in Shipping Companies
2 Organizational Impacts of Knowledge Management in Shipping Companies
3 Knowledge Management Assessment of a Shipping Company
4 Technologies to Manage Knowledge in Shipping Companies
5 Preserving and Applying Human Expertise: Knowledge-Based Systems
6 Knowledge Elicitation: Converting Tacit to Explicit
7 Midterm Exam
8 Discovering New Knowledge: Data Mining, Text Mining and Web Mining
9 Knowledge Discovery in Shipping Companies
10 Knowledge Capture and Sharing Systems in Shipping Companies
11 Knowledge Application Systems in Shipping Companies
12 Knowledge Management and Related Disciplines
13 The Future of Knowledge Management
14 Project Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynak:
Knowledge Management literature, academic books, journals and other publications in the international transport and maritime transport areas.
Thomas H.Davenport, Laurence Prusak; Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What
They Know; Boston; Harvard School Press; 2000.
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Avelino Gonzalez, Rajiv Sabherwal. Knowledge Management
Challenges, Solutions and Technologies, 2004.
Elias M.Awad, Hassan M.Ghaziri (2004). Knowledge Management. Prentice Hall
Madanmohan Rao(2004). Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques: Practitioners and
Experts Evaluate KM Solutions. Butterworth-Heinemann.
Harvard Business Review
Organization Science
Strategic Management Journal

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature survey, data analysis, case studies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be anounced.

Assessment Criteria

To be anounced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be anounced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

snas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be anounced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 143

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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