You are a consultant who has been hired by a billionaire client to design and establish a leading-edge and knowledge creating organisation. You can opt for aSoftware company. *This is knowledge management subject

Q1a Discuss how Nonaka's SECI model can be used in this company/organisation.

Q1b Discuss the hard and soft knowledge management systems that you would build into the company/organisation.

Q2 :Discuss the structure and culture elements that you would build into the company/organisation.

Q3:Explain how these design features that you discussed above (in Q1 and Q2) would create intellectual capital and contribute to the competitive advantage of the company/ organisation.

Key Points:

Q1a: What are the key explicit and tacit knowledge in the organisation/company you have chosen? Use Nonaka's SECI model to design a continuous process of knowledge conversion between different forms of tacit and explicit knowledge in that organisational context. Feel free to use diagrams if necessary.

Q1b: hard KM systems (e.g. examples of hard systems you would like to design for that company/organisation) and Topic 7 for soft KM systems (HRM practices and principles you would like to build into that company/organisation).

Q2:which type of/what kind of organisational structure would best fit the company/organisation you have chosen to facilitate knowledge sharing/creation in the company/organisation? (Feel free to use diagrams if necessary). What are the typical features of that structure? What are the key organisational culture characteristics you would like to build into that company/organisation?

Q3:Discuss how your answer in Q1 and Q2 could help create intellectual capital (e.g. organisational capital, human capital) and social capital which would in turn differentiate the company/organisation from its competitors in the knowledge age. Refer to Topic 2 for the definitions of these terms.