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During 2008, 2.76 lakhs applications were registered for Common Admission Test (CAT), held by IIMs; but only 2.46 lakhs finally took the test. Where as in 2009, the number of applications itself has dipped to 2.41 lakhs.
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Online NMAT 2010 for MBA (Core Programme) Admissions in Narsee Monjee Institute of Management will be held online between 30th January to 8th February 2010. |
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Thus Spake |
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
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December used to be the tenth month of the Roman year, and it gets its name from the word "decem", which means ten.
The 1st Sunday in April is called Daffodil Sunday. In Victorian times families picked up daffodils from their gardens and took them to local hospitals to give to the sick. |
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Twitter: Twitter is a micro-blogging social network service which allows users to share not-so-important things in their life by answering a simple question: "What are you doing?" Answers to this question are organized in short messages called Tweets; length is limited to 140 characters. |
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Knowledge Management- The new approach |
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Knowledge Management (KM) is the ‘process through which organizations generate value from intellectual and knowledge based assets’
Companies with a focus on Knowledge Management pay close attention to issues of collaboration, organizational learning, best |
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Smile Please..! |
I didn't recognize you |
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A middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience. Seeing God she asked "Is my time up?" God answered, "No, you have another 40 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a facelift, liposuction, and a tummy tuck. She even had someone come in and change her hair color. Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.
After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was hit by a car and died immediately.
Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 40 years, why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the car?"
God replied, "I didn't recognize you."
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Research in Ocean
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A physicist, biologist and a chemist were going to the ocean for the first time.
The physicist saw the ocean and was fascinated by the waves. He said he wanted to do some research on the fluid dynamics of the waves and walked into the ocean. Obviously he was drowned and never returned.
The biologist said he wanted to do research on the flora and fauna inside the ocean and walked inside the ocean. He too, never returned.
The chemist waited for a long time and afterwards, wrote the observation, "The physicist and the biologist are soluble in ocean water".
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From The Editors Desk |
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Heartiest Greetings!
In this issue of Youniverse, we have presented an article on "Knowledge Management - The new approach" makes an attempt to provide a brief insight of technologies, approaches & challenges to implement knowledge management. Through Knowledge Management, organization can also promote business to business relationships, manage customer relations & deliver competitive intelligence.
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Complex Simplicities |
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support various types of objects embedded in the email message. MIME defines mechanisms for sending other kinds of information in e-mail. These include text in languages other than English using character encodings other than ASCII, and 8-bit binary content such as files containing images, sounds, movies, and computer programs. MIME is also a fundamental component of communication protocols such as HTTP, which requires that data be transmitted in the context of e-mail-like messages even though the data might not actually have anything to do with e-mail. Mapping messages into and out of MIME format is typically done automatically by an e-mail client or by mail servers when sending or receiving Internet (SMTP/MIME) e-mail.
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Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) |
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A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a mobile device, also known as a palmtop computer. Newer PDAs commonly have color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones (smart phones), web browsers, or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi, or Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs). Many PDAs employ Touchscreen technology.
Currently, a typical PDA has touch screen for entering data, a memory card |
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December used to be the tenth month of the Roman year, and it gets its name from the word "decem", which means ten. |
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The 1st Sunday in April is called Daffodil Sunday. In Victorian times families picked up daffodils from their gardens and took them to local hospitals to give to the sick. |
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Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. |
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Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool. |
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The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines. |
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If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. |
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts – Charlemagne,Diamonds - Julius Caesar. |
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Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water. |
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Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane. |
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Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels. |
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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds. |
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Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves. |
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Twitter: Twitter is a micro-blogging social network service which allows users to share not-so-important things in their life by answering a simple question: "What are you doing?" Answers to this question are organized in short messages called Tweets; length is limited to 140 characters. The good thing about Twitter, there is no "noise" created by boring people since "friendships" are not mutual - you can "follow" interesting people while they don't have to follow you. In February 2009, Twitter had a monthly growth (of users) of over 1300 percent - several times more than Facebook. Twitter made huge success from the mobile device users (in 2009 there was 735,000 unique mobile visitors). |
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Hollywood: The world renowned name in the motion picture industry. This district of Los Angeles has the well-known Hollywood sign. In reality, this sign was built in 1923 by one of the real estate agents and an investor, Harry Chandler, with a motive of advertisement. He spent around $21, 000 for this and wanted it to stay for 18 months. But at that stage he was not aware that this construction would become a legend in itself. Today, the famous Hollywood sign is more than 80 years old. Initially, the sign used to read "Hollywood Land". But in 1949, "Land" was removed and only "Hollywood" remained. Today, the sign is taken care of by "Hollywood Sign Trust" which was |
formed in the year of 1995. On September 18, 1932, Lillian Millicent "Peg" Entwisted after unsuccessful Hollywood carrier, jumped from the letter 'H' into her death. She was only 24 years old. |
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Christmas becomes popular: The popularity of Christmas was spurred on in 1820 by Washington Irving's book “The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall”. In 1834, introducing the tradition of the Christmas tree and carols that were held in Europe to the British Empire. A week before Christmas in 1834, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol (in which he wrote that Scrooge required Cratchit to work, and that the US Congress met on Christmas Day). It was so popular that neither the churches nor the governments could not ignore the importance of Christmas celebrations. In 1836, Alabama became the first state in the US to declare Christmas a legal holiday. In 1837, T.H. Hervey's The Book of Christmas also became a best seller. In 1860, |
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American illustrator Thomas Nast borrowed from the European stories about Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, to create Father Christmas (Santa Claus). In 1907, Oklahoma became the last US state to declare Christmas a legal holiday. Year by year, countries all over the world started to recognise Christmas as the day for celebrating the birth of Jesus. |
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Knowledge Management- The new approach |
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Knowledge Management (KM) is the ‘process through which organizations generate value from intellectual and knowledge based assets’ |
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Companies with a focus on Knowledge Management pay close attention to issues of collaboration, organizational learning, best practices, workflow, intellectual property management, document management; customer-centric focus, and using data effectively. Knowledge Management initiatives include portals that use the web to span communication across an entire enterprise and to promote business-to-business relationships. The Internet is also used intensively for team collaboration and groupware; natural language queries of data; sharing information on best practices; and anytime/anywhere online learning.
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Capture and share best practices & Provide training, corporate learning |
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Manage customer relationships & Deliver competitive intelligence |
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Provide project workspace , Manage legal & intellectual property |
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Enhance web publishing & supply chain management |
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E-learning is one of the most important Knowledge Management practices, something which one would expect higher education institutions to have as an advantage. Yet these e-learning opportunities are geared most often to students as online customers, not to employees as part of capitalizing on their knowledge as an intellectual asset. The e-learning focus in Knowledge Management is on "just-in-time knowledge," delivered anytime and anywhere, with the traditional "course" disaggregated into "knowledge chunks." |
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Techno-centric with a focus on technology, ideally those that enhance knowledge sharing and creation. |
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Organizational with a focus on how an organization can be designed to facilitate knowledge processes best. |
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Ecological with a focus on the interaction of people, identity, knowledge, and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system akin to a natural ecosystem. |
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One approach to KM involves actively managing knowledge (push strategy). In such an instance, individuals strive to explicitly encode their knowledge into a shared knowledge repository, such as a database, as well as retrieving knowledge they need that other individuals have provided to the repository. This is also commonly known as the Codification approach to KM. Another strategy to KM involves individuals making knowledge requests of experts associated with a particular subject on an ad hoc basis (pull strategy). In such an instance, expert individual(s) can provide their insights to the particular person. This is also commonly known as the Personalization approach to KM. |
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Software tools in knowledge management are a collection of technologies and are not necessarily acquired as a single software solution. Furthermore, these knowledge management software tools have the advantage of using the organization’s existing information technology infrastructure. Organizations and business decision makers spend a great deal of resources and make significant investments in the latest technology, systems and infrastructure to support knowledge management. It is imperative that these investments are validated properly, made wisely and that the most appropriate technologies and software tools are selected or combined to facilitate knowledge management. A set of characteristics that should support decision makers in the selection of software tools for knowledge management are available. |
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Reliance on technology produces consensual knowledge (over-reliance on best practices for instance) and may stifle innovation |
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The notion that ‘right information’ is predictable and flows from historical data may be flawed |
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Making information available in not enough; getting people to use it is more critical |
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Retain expertise of personnel & Increase customer satisfaction |
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Improve profits, grow revenues & Support e-business initiatives |
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Shorten product development cycles & Provide project workspace |
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A number of claims exist as to the motivations leading organizations to undertake a KM effort. Typical considerations driving a KM effort include: |
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Making available increased knowledge content in the development and provision of products and services |
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Achieving shorter new product development cycles |
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Facilitating and managing innovation and organizational learning |
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Leveraging the expertise of people across the organization |
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Increasing network connectivity between internal and external individuals |
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Managing business environments and allowing employees to obtain relevant insights and ideas appropriate to their work |
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Managing intellectual capital and intellectual assets in the workforce (such as the expertise and know-how possessed by key individuals) |
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There are obvious challenges to the implementation of KM. They are: |
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Current culture does not encourage sharing |
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Lack of understanding of KM and benefits |
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Inability to measure financial benefits of KM |
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Lack of skill in KM techniques |
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Organization's processes are not designed for KM |
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Lack of funding for KM |
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Lack of incentives, rewards to share |
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Knowledge management as a concept is very attractive and too many organizations is trendy and nice to be associated with. Information management is a subset of knowledge management and technology should be seen as an enabler and part of infrastructure. For the majority of those interested in knowledge management, the key drivers are organizational efficiency, maximizing organization’s potential, competitive advantage, building a learning organization and managing intellectual capital. However, implementing knowledge management is also not that easy. Organizations wanting to implement knowledge management have to grabble with issues such as strategy, technology, organizational culture and knowledge organization. But despite all these issues, companies worldwide in both the private and public sector have shown keen interest in knowledge management, judging from the amount of money expected to be committed for knowledge management in the next few years. |
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support various types of objects embedded in the email message. MIME defines mechanisms for sending other kinds of information in e-mail. These include text in languages other than English using character encodings other than ASCII, and 8-bit binary content such as files containing images, sounds, movies, and computer programs. MIME is also a fundamental component of communication protocols such as HTTP, which requires that data be transmitted in the context of e-mail-like messages even though the data might not actually have anything to do with e-mail. Mapping messages into and out of MIME format is typically done automatically by an e-mail client or by mail servers when sending or receiving Internet (SMTP/MIME) e-mail.
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MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of e-mail to describing content type in general, including for the web. Virtually all human-written Internet e-mail and a fairly large proportion of automated e-mail is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format. Internet e-mail is so closely associated with the SMTP and MIME standards that it is sometimes called SMTP/MIME e-mail. The content types defined by MIME standards are also of importance outside of e-mail, such as in communication protocols like HTTP for the World Wide Web. HTTP requires that data be transmitted in the context of e-mail-like messages, although the data most often is not actually e-mail.
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Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) |
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A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a mobile device, also known as a palmtop computer. Newer PDAs commonly have color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones (smart phones), web browsers, or portable media players. Many PDAs can access the Internet, intranets or extranets via Wi-Fi, or Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs). Many PDAs employ Touchscreen technology. |
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Currently, a typical PDA has touch screen for entering data, a memory card slot for data storage and at least one of the following for connectivity: IrDA, Bluetooth and/or WiFi. However, many PDAs (typically those used primarily as telephones) may not have a touch screen, using softkeys, a directional pad and either the numeric keypad or a thumb keyboard for input. Software typically required to be a PDA includes an appointment calendar, a to-do list, an address book for contacts and some sort of note program. Connected PDAs also typically include E-mail and Web support. Some PDAs also have a USB port, mainly for USB flash drives. Some PDAs are now compatible with micro SD cards, which are physically much smaller than standard SD cards. |
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From The Editors Desk |
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| Heartiest Greetings! |
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In this issue of Youniverse, we have presented an article on "Knowledge Management - The new approach" makes an attempt to provide a brief insight of technologies, approaches & challenges to implement knowledge management. Through Knowledge Management, organization can also promote business to business relationships, manage customer relations & deliver competitive intelligence.
Our regular section on "Exam Alerts" informs you of the important dates of the upcoming entrance examinations. The section on "Complex simplicities" provides an introduction to the concepts of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).
We hope you would find the information presented in this issue of Youniverse interesting and useful. |
We welcome your thought, views, comments & suggestions to share information as knowledge. |
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