Knowledge Economy (Management)

Language of Instruction: English

Decision Making, Thinking Skills, Manage and develop Knowledge Organizations and knowledge teams

Decision Making (Others)

Language of Instruction: English

Decision Making, Scientific Thinking, Complexity Thinking, Thinking Skills for professional knowledge workers

Critical Thinking (Management)

Language of Instruction: English

Presenter

Christian Ministry, South Africa

Jan 1997 - Present

Various Biblical based seminars

These seminars have been conducted twice a year since 1997, followed by discipleship programs.

Part Time Lecturer

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Jan 2004 - Present

Decision Making

Lecture in the Masters Program in Information and Knowledge Management.

Leading a group of scientists and developing the capability to support senior decision makers. Introduce a focus on the knowledge economy in addition to the existing operations research focus. Developing a framework by which knowledge work teams can be defined and developed for optimal value generation in the field of knowledge generation.

Developing an association of knowledge workers to provide online and live knowledge services to organisations and individuals

Part of the Decision Support team providing scientific support to senior decision makers in the South African Navy.

Mathematical modelling as part of a remote sensing research team

Masters in Technology Management

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria, South Africa

Jan 2003 - Dec 2005

Developed an ion conceptual tool for innovation in knowledge generation, also enabling quality assurance of knowledge work in the fields of decision support and scientific support to decision makers.

Applied Maths and Physics

Minor in Maths

University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat, South Africa

Jan 1985 - Dec 1986

This articles describes how to expand scientific knowledge generation in order to be useful in management and organizational problem solving. Traditionally scientific method was applied directly to these areas, with limited success.

Various Articles relevant to the knowledge economy and the development of skills to advance you career in the knowledge industry. Subjects include for instance Decision Making and Thinking Skills

This video explores the nature of Strategic Decision Making and make comments about the goals of decision making and planning. It also looks at new developments that add value to supporting strategic decision making

This video explores how to approach Scientific Thinking to make its success in knowledge generation accessible to management and organizational environments

This paper investigates the notional development of various approaches claiming to add value in knowledge generation during the 20th century, with the aim to identify what it is that enhances productiveness in knowledge generation. Observing that knowledge generation is a complex phenomenon, an approach is used for the investigation that was developed specifically to study un-deterministic complex systems. A list of salient features for scientific knowledge generation is presented as a result. In addition to these features, various problem types are identified from literature. These two are then integrated to provide a proposed framework for scientific knowledge generation, which is trans-disciplinary and useful for scientific problem-solving in a pluralist reality. A case study illustrates the implementation of this framework.

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