KM KERNELS TO EMPOWER HIGHER EDUCATION

چکیده

In recent years knowledge management (KM) has proved its significant role in the improvement of well known knowledge intensive industrial organizations and to enhance innovation. Universities and higher education (HE) institutes are highly knowledge intensive because of their input, their staff which is major knowledge source, their mission and their continuous educational and research processes, and also because of their output. Universities also have a major role in KM activities of the society. But in spite of these facts, this paper shows that more or less, HE has a traditional management and KM should have deeper role in the management of HE. Based on usual current architecture of higher educational institutes, and by exploiting the concept of kernel in computer operating systems, this paper suggests KM kernels to bring the KM concepts and methods in different academic activities; at organizational, as well as, personal levels. Executive considerations and two examples are given.