ISYS5050 - KM Systems
Take Home Assessment (15%)
Maximum Score: 30 marks

Instructions:
1. Provide typed answers to each of the two questions below. Each answer should not exceed
one-and-a-half (1 ½) typed A4 double-spaced pages and type size not less than 11.
2. This is an individual assessment and, as such, you are expected to complete your submitted
work in its entirety by you without consulting anyone else including other students enrolled
in this unit of study.
3. Please make sure that you follow the guidelines and University policy on plagiarism (check
the week 1 lecture notes if you are not sure what the guidelines are). If you draw on
particular references, please ensure that you do not cut-and-paste or copy text verbatim and
provide full citations. We will check for plagiarism using Turn-it-in and other tools, both
among the student submissions and external sources.
4. Your work must be submitted on Canvas before 6 pm on Wednesday, 14 April 2021.
Questions
1. Polanyi’s paradox refers to the idea that people (and organisations) can know more than what
they can tell. Assuming that this paradox is valid, it poses significant challenges for the kinds of
knowledge transformation processes described by Nonaka as part of the SECI (socialisation,
externalisation, combination, and internalisation) model. Discuss some of the key approaches and
techniques that can help achieve the transformations in organisations and the critical challenges and
limitations of each in the context of creating valid, useful and shareable organisational knowledge.
(15 marks)
2. Relational DB and data warehousing (DW)/online analytical processing (OLAP) have been the
foundational technologies for managing data and decision support in organisations. However, as the
volume, variety, and velocity of data in digital form continues to grow exponentially, their limits of
have become increasingly apparent.
Identify and discuss what you see as the critical limitation and how this is being gradually addressed
and overcome in contemporary settings.
(15 marks)


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