To provide the project manager with a deepened understanding of the role of knowledge, information and technology in organisations with specific focus on projects. Explore the changing nature of work in the context of new technology and particularly the network economy. Provide an understanding of the nature of data, information and knowledge as organisational resources. The module addresses the opportunities and challenges in relation to providing leadership and managerial skills for the implementation and managing of these resources in an economic and social framework.

The emerging information and knowledge issues as we move to a post industrial work context. The move to a network based economy and new forms of organising and production. A study of the changing roles played by information systems in organisations and markets. The role of technology, information and knowledge as strategic issues in the transformation of organisations and markets in the networked economy. The development of technology and the digital network for social and informal collaboration in project management. Reviews the challenges of managing data as a resource and its role in decision making, analytics and evidence based project management. The role of information as a competitive resource; information value chain and industrial economics; information management and the role of power and politics in the implementation of project change. A review of the development of knowledge management and its role within organisations. The opportunities and challenges that is associated with the creation and sharing of knowledge in organisational projects.

Identify the role of information in a modern organisational context Develop an understanding of the logic of electronic organisation and markets Recognize the social aspect of information and knowledge in organisational projects Operationalise major concepts and techniques involving knowledge management within organisations.

Synthesise the theory and practice of information and knowledge management in an organisational project context

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The module is delivered by a mixture of methods: 1) Formal Lectures 2) Workshops 3) Course case study projects. The students learning experience moves through dependant/directed learning based on lectures, texts/papers and extensive audio visual material; through to independent learning sourced from application of material to real strategic implementation issues and encouraged wider reading and reflection.

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