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About Finntrack
Rationale
In basic terms, Finntrack is a Knowledge Transfer business in the fields of Organisational development and organisational learning. Knowledge Transfer is the practical problem of getting a packet of knowledge from one part of the organization to another (or all other) parts of the organization which may be situated locally, regionally, nationally or internationally. It is considered to be more than just a communications problem.
If it were merely that, then a memorandum, an e-mail or a meeting would accomplish the knowledge transfer. Knowledge transfer is more complex because (1) knowledge resides in organisational members, tools, tasks, and their sub networks (Argote & Ingram 2000) and (2) much knowledge in organizations is tacit or hard to articulate (Nonaka & Takeuchi 1995).
Argote & Ingram (1999) define knowledge transfer as "the process through which one unit (i.e., group, department, or division) is affected by the experience of another" (p 151). They further point out the transfer of organisational knowledge (i.e., routine or best practices) can be observed through changes in the knowledge or performance of recipient units. The transfer of organisational knowledge, such as best practices, can be quite difficult to achieve (Szulanski 1996). Three related concepts are "knowledge utilization," "research utilization" and "implementation," which were described by Greenhalgh et al, 2004) in the context of health sciences.
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- Knowledge Transfer from the Research Base
- Leonard,
D and Swap, w. 2005 Deep Smarts. How to cultivate
and transfer enduring business wisdom. HBSP.
- http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/Willpope.pdf
- http://www.teachwhatyouknow.com/
- References
- Readings
Today's Videos
- Connect with us on http://www.youtube.com/finntrack
- Google's Play lists
Introduction to Finntrack
Building on the original 'Strategios' strategy and research site which was created in the mid 1990s for the use of business and management students, teachers and all other members of the scholarly community on the Internet and still continues being maintained by Finntrack
Finntrack and its partners today offer business, management and IT curriculum, learning contents, staff training programmes and free learner support units together with online and in-class teaching services.
The web-based module-specific learning and tutor guides are distributed direct to the end users under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
The fully customised business, management and IT programmes, module specific teaching and learning contents including comprehensive and learner support, staff development, web-based readings units are freely available to all recognized business schools, colleges, universities, training centres, corporations and public sector organisations throughout the world from the 'Learning Centres' listed below:
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Transnational Education Services
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Quality Assurance and Benchmarks
All Finntrack Curriculum and Learning Contents Design and Developments products comply with the British QAA published Subject Benchmark Statements
Our work in instructional technology has been identified as having high potential as a web-based teaching and learning resource and recently been peer reviewed and published in MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching). The MERLOT project is an international initiative enabling faculty to integrate technology into higher education.
MERLOT
is supported by 27 systems and institutions of higher
education as well as the National
Science
Foundation. MERLOT is also endorsed by Educational
Learning Initiative (ELI) of EDUCAUSE.
Over 150 faculty members from these institutions have
been performing the peer review of instructional technology,
modelled after the peer review process for research
and scholarship.
Learning Contents
- Learning Contents
- Learning Contents (ppt)
- Teaching Strategies
- Learning Environment (ppt)
- Development Resources
Fig. 1 Course/Module Structure
Marketing
Our regional partners are responsible for all Finntrack Marketing activities, including the institutional and organisational marketing of business, management and IT related curriculum and learning contents development projects.
- History
- Creating a Web Site for Studying Strategic Management
- Product and Services
- Learning Centres
- Learner Support
- Staff Development
References
In keeping with the ethos of the Internet, Finntrack respects the copyrights of owners of the site links or material used on our domains and expects the users of their domains to respect their own and all third party intellectual rights when using any material from these sites. The original known author or designer of the material used on courseware.finntrack.co.uk and http://management-class.com/moodle/ can be viewed/downloaded by clicking on the relevant hypertext or image links.
- British Council
- Higher Education Academy
- Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
- UK Trade and Investment
Resources
- Association of Business Schools
- British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education
- Cooperation with British Universities
- E-business Models
- E-learning
- Further Education
- Higher Education
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
- Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
- Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
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