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Simmons ASIS&T in partnership with the Research Colloquium Series are sponsoring a talk about Implementing Knowledge Management in Colleges and Universities with Naresh Agarwal on Tuesday, April 8th 12pm-1pm in Palace Road Building Room 308.

Knowledge Management (KM) is a collaborative and integrated approach adopted at various levels to ensure that an organization’s knowledge assets are best utilized to increase organizational performance. While KM has been adopted in a large number of sectors and organizations, colleges and universities, and the higher education sector in general, is yet to take full advantage of the possibilities offered by KM. Also, while past research has sought to highlight the importance of implementing KM in higher education, there is a lack of a single, clear template for KM implementation that universities leaders and administrators can adopt. The research questions that the study investigates are: “How can colleges and universities successfully implement KM? What are the steps to follow, and in which sequence?“ The contribution of the paper is a practical, actionable, step-by-step plan for successful KM implementation, as well as a diagrammatic, theoretical model for KM implementation in colleges and universities. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Laila Marouf of Kuwait University.