BBA312KnowledgeManagement-Midterm.docx

BBA312 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MIDTERM Task brief & rubrics

Background

You are a health consultancy and you have been asked to define data, information, information systems and applicable criteria to facilitate the decision making process for the government in Task 1 (Midterm) and a multinational in Task 2 (Final). To do the two reports you will need to refer to different chapters and concepts in the Text Book as specified in the questions.

Task I – Midterm (Team of 2-3)

BACKGROUND
The government is evaluating giving financial support to one of the following medicines:
Blocviroc
Trimonabant
Hitetrapib
INSTRUCTIONS
To write the report where you will evaluate the different medicines for the government you will need to:
Write a background to the need for these medicines
Describe the Knowledge Management Cycle and how it can be applied to this case.
Define the criteria to be used to evaluate the medicines and justify why these are the most relevant criteria for the government
Write up a report comparing and contrasting the different medicines based on these criteria
Do a SAF evaluating the medicines and deciding which one is the best one for the government to support.
Come to a conclusion with your recommendation

Task II – Final (Individual)

A multinational company with offices in Europe, Asia and America is returning to face to face working conditions and wants to introduce a vaccine passport to help guarantee the safety of their workers.
INSTRUCTIONS

Part 1

Describe WiiG’s Hierarchy of Knowledge and explain how you can apply it to this part of the assignment

Identify the advantages and disadvantages of vaccine passports
Explain a way in which you can consult the employees about their willingness to use a vaccine passport within their company
Put forward a proposal on how to introduce the vaccine passport into the company

Part 2:

Describe Knowledge Management’s Organisational Architecture and how it applies to this part of the assignment

Identify the data and the databases you will need to set up to need to provide to employees, managers and activity organisers
Describe the user interface and how each user (employees, managers and activity organisers) will be able to access the different application functions they want to use
Disucss any ethical issues that may arise in the implementation of the vaccine passport and try to address these issues
Identify any levels of permission that will be needed to combine the privacy of the data with accessibility.

Part 3

Explain how the Balanced Scorecard can be adapted to measure the success of the implementation process behind the vaccine passport.

Identify measurable objectives for each of the four perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard for the implementation of your proposal

Formalities:

· Wordcount: 1500-2000
· Cover, Table of Contents, Conclusion
· Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
· Text alignment: Justified.

Weight: 40% Midterm / 60% Final

Deadlines –

It assesses the following learning outcomes:
· Outcome 1: Understand the difference between data, information and knowledge
· Outcome 2: Understand how data and information can be modeled in to generate knowledge
· Outcome 3: Carry out different ways of capturing information
· Outcome 4: Apply a knowledge management model to a business setting

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100

Good 80-89

Fair 70-79

Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding (20%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%)

Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Evaluation

(40%)

There is exceptional evidence of evaluation and justification of recommendations

There is some good evidence of evaluations of concepts and justification of recommendations

There is some evidence of evaluation of the concepts and justification of recommendations

There is little evidence of evaluation of concepts and justification of recommendations

Communication (10%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.