Enterprise portal was the core of the lecture today.
Only one of the group presented us with chunky information.
One last thing was that i didnt know Ms Jamie was keeping tabs of the blog.
Okay lets go back to E-Learning.
There are always pros and cons to everything. and this wasnt an exception.

Pros
Convenience
Comfort of Home
Longer sleeping Hours
Own Time Own Target
Self Learning / Exploratory Work

Cons
However knowledge will only be acquired only when the student is focused and discplined enough to sit infront of the monitor and finish up the work given
Explaination may not be clear enough on how to go about doing it.
If topics are really difficult, We may not be able to interpret it correctly
People who are "lazy" will not learn anything. But instead worsen his situation ;) -> Thats me.

So havin E learning KMS will definitely be a good thing if we do either a lecture or tutoral online first via "Chat", and later gets reinforced the following lesson. Of course attendance is compulsory. =)

Project Topic - Enterprise Portal

My second Post for KMS.

Enterprise Portal

What's a big company without a proper enterprise portal?
a) a day without multiple sun sunshine,
b) a home for under-informed employees,
c) an enterprise portal-less entity,
d) all of the above? ... tick tick tick ...
the correct answer is D! If you land in an enterprise portal-less planet, get ready to say "beam me up, ... there's no intelligent life here."

Scratching your head? Good! It's time to learn what an enterprise portal really is ...

An enterprise portal is an online doorway into the business organization. There are two basic types of enterprise portals: internal and external. In simple terms, the internal portal is an entry point for employees into the intranet, while the external portal provide gated entry for customers and partners to access the extranet. An internal portal might allow employees to access internal documents, such as human resources guidelines, while an external portal could allow customers to place and track orders.

When an employee or customer logs into the enterprise portal, it knows who they are. You might be familiar with this from the big portals like Yahoo. When you log into My Yahoo, for example, the portal system knows who you are and presents the information that's most important to you (assuming that you've taken the time to set it up properly). You get to see your news, your weather, and your stocks.

Enterprise portals work in a similar manner. Well, sort of ...

For many firms, the promise of the Internet has been delivered through the reduced cost of transactions. When a customer can interact with a organization without requiring human intervention--say at the research, ordering, or post-order stage--both the company and the customer are winners. Whether it's the initial placement of an order or checking the status of an existing order, an effective external enterprise portal allows the customer to get in and get what they need, on a 24/7 basis.

When Ms Jamie Teo the customer logs into the external portal, she can see--at a glance--that her order had been shipped. Jamie might even be able to get the FedEx tracking number. When Jamie logs into the internal portal of ngee ann, she can quickly ascertain how many sick days she has left to squander before December 31 rolls around. Jamie didn't need to bug a customer service or human resources rep. As shed just got her information and went on her merry way. At 3:16 AM on Sunday.

Needless to say, building an enterprise portal can be a monumental undertaking. It's not as simple as slapping some HTML down and stringing a bunch of pages together. Some vendors offer standalone products to provide the basics of document management and collaborative environments. If your portal needs are light, they're worth a look. But when things get serious--say when the portal needs to hook into a host of other corporate necessities including business intellengence, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) systems -you'll need to focus on the heavy-duty vendors.

Enterprise portal software and services are marketed by a wide range of firms, including IBM, Oracle, Sun, BEA, SAP, Sybase, Microsoft, Plumtree, intranets.com, Akamai, and many others.

Oh no .. ive just realised we took on one of the most difficult project topic. Am i worong to say that ? ...

http://www.geekbooks.com/blog/archives/000181.html

The start of a KMSED life

First and second lectures
-Introduction to KMS

- The SECI model: Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination, Internalisation
Socialisation - It is a process whereby knowledge is transferred through observations (tacit to tacit)
Externalisation - It is knowledge is transfered on to writings (tacit to explicit)
Combination - It's knowledge from writings combined with knowledge already gained. Which result in creation of new knowledge.(explicit to explicit)
Internalisation - Knowledge put to use repeatedly that one does not even realise it. (explicit to tacit)

- Explicit and Tacit knowledge

Explicit knowledge is knowledge which has been or can be articulated, codified and stored in certain media. The most common form of explicit knowledge are manuals, documents, procedures, and stories. The are also other forms of knowledge can be in the form of audio vision and other multimedia form of representations. A work of art and product design can be seen as yet another forms of explicit knowledge where human skills, motives and knowledge are externalized.

Tacit Knowledge
By definition, tacit knowledge is not easily shared. One of Polanyi's famous aphorisms is: "We know more than we can tell." Tacit knowledge consists often of habits and culture that we do not recognize in ourselves.

The tacit aspects of knowledge are those that cannot be codified, but can only be transmitted via training or gained through personal experience. Tacit knowledge has been described as “know-how” (as opposed to “know-what” [facts] and “know-why” [science]) . It involves learning and skill but not in a way that can be written down. The simplest example of the nature and value of tacit knowledge is that one does not know how to ride a bike or swim due to reading a textbook, but only through personal experimentation, by observing others, and/or being guided by an instructor.

Tacit knowledge has been found to be a crucial input to the innovation process. A nation’s ability to innovate depends on its level of tacit knowledge of how to innovate (conduct research, develop prototypes of new products & processes, adapt these prototypes into models fit for mass-production) and of how to implement innovations into manufacturing, defense, communications, transportation, etc.

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