PAST PRACTICUM TOPICS

(Note: To preserve anonymity and company confidentiality, organizations are called "ABC" and processes are called "XYZ")

· A learning system for technical support

· A look at shareholder capital of ABC

· A study towards benchmarking: KM in 10 SMEs

· A who-knows-what audit of the XYZ services group of ABC

· ABC Knowledge repository

· ABC product line best proven practice

· ABC supplier directory portal

· Acquiring and managing accounts

· Adoption of KM processes in a technolog-based NGO

· After-action review

· Aligning SOPs and manuals with PIC/s

· Assessing how far an organization is learning and innovation oriented

· Assessing KM readiness of ABC

· Assessment of critical knowledge assets of ABC

· Assessment of infrastructure team prior to external service offers

· AWS (alternative workplace strategy) portal

· Behavioral indicators of competencies and correlation with KPI

· Best practices in investment banking at ABC, DEF and GHI

· Best practices in IT at ABC

· Best practices in taking MTM comprehensive examination

· Best practices on international publisher's representation

· Best practices on maintenance of substation equipment

· Book of Learning and Technology Database

· Bug fixing: reusing solutions and maximizing experts' knowledge

· Business intelligence for ABC

· Business process improvement of ABC teams

· CALLS: capture audit lessons learned system

· Capture and re-use of project lessons learned

· Capture knowledge from adaptive learning

· Capturing exiting knowledge: knowledge harvesting

· Capturing tacit knowledge in ABC's performance and development plan

· Capturing tacit knowledge of ABC experts about to resign

· Case study and evaluation of five knowledge management projects

· Case study of an exemplary KM practice at ABC

· Case study: incentive for work improvisation/creativity and innovation

· Characterizing 3 best practices in ABC

· Checklist on KM literacy

· Competitive intelligence on Phil-based biomedical engineering firms

· Co-developing an OJT program with a techical school

· Codifying and sharing expertise at ABC

· Collaborative software to enable knowledge sharing at ABC

· Collection, validation, storage and reuse of lessons learned

· Comparison and critique of 5 KM programs

· Comparison of SAP KM suite with MS Sharepoint

· Comprehensive retrieval of actionable customer knowledge

· Conducting After-Action Review or Lessons Learned Meeting

· Content acquisition processes

· Contract management abstraction and management tool

· CoP in managing ABC documents

· Correlating stock performance with tangible and intangible assets

· Correlation of Balanced Scorecard and KM

· Creating a learning culture: framework and KPIs

· Criteria and indicators for knowledge management systems

· Critical Decision Interview Method

· Critical incident resolutions database from lessons learned session

· Critical review of web tools and innovating a business model

· Critical skill gap analysis of business retail division team of ABC

· CRM integrated with website syncing

· Cross-project learning system

· Customer feedback mechanism in ABC's workshops for DEFs

· Customer feedback site for process improvement

· Customer satisfaction measurement for ABC training

· Customer-driven innovation circle

· Customer-driven website improvements

· Database of process changes by subcontractors for fault diagnosis

· Decision Support System Sharepoint site

· Design and execution of KPA website

· Design and setup of a portal for a nationwide project

· Design and test improvements in R&D teams

· Design of a demand-driven KM system

· Design of 3 templates for 3 different best practices

· Design of a retailer feedback system for contractors

· Design of training in QC tools to analyze process data

· Designing a learning system that captures/documents best practices

· Designing a tool to measure proclivity of an organization to innovation

· Designing and testing a format for a learning-oriented AAR

· Developing a business process template

· Development of an orientation manual for ABC

· Document control standards and procedures

· Documentation of key purchasing support group processes

· Documentation of processes in CM/communications team

· Documenting a best practice: supplier-managed inventory

· Effective use of mindmapping and dialogue in generating new project ideas

· Electronic document and records management system

· Employee performance planning and M&E system

· Empowering end-users to report/analyze RF sales data

· Ensuring ROI in training

· Enterprise content management: an IT perspective

· Escalation process review

· Evaluation of Internet/intranet corporate portals

· FGD method for harvesting non-technical skills of high performers in IT

· FGD on ABC's uniform

· FGD to mine customer insights on a product offering

· Framework for technology schools

· Freeware to support various KM actions

· Future Center approach to a design-and-construction firm

· Gauging the potential benefits from best practices transfer in ABC

· Help desk across IT departments

· How to identify key holders of tacit knowledge in an organization

· Identification of critical knowledge assets of an organization

· Identification of potential KM champions

· Identify, measure and assess tacit knowledge content of a job

· Identifying and characterizing knowledge activists in an organization

· Identifying knowledge assets/processes affecting productivity/revenue

· Identifying non-technical competencies of high performers thru FGD

· Identifying tangible and intangible assets that most limit performance

· Improved book opening request form

· Improvement and manualization of a problematic business process

· Improvement of catalog processing

· Improvement of system incident resolution process

· Improvements in KM Team training and business processes

· Improvements in leasing information management system

· Improving ABC's service application process

· Improving customer feedback system

· Improving efficiency with post-mortem analysis and customer feedback

· Improving existing customer feedbback procedure

· Improving knowledge transfer from development to service teams

· Improving requirements development process

· Improving XYZ customer support process

· Incentive plan for knowledge sharing

· Increase of knowledge in the Government Agency ABC

· In-depth knowledge transfer procedures

· Industry best practices to improve sales process management

· Industry-academe linkage at ABC College

· Information security for SMEs

· Insights into the Filipino human resource motivation

· Internet marketing for ABC

· Intranet for the XYZ Program

· Inventory of knowledge assets

· Issue tracking approach to localization

· IT architect job analysis

· IT literacy checklist

· Kanban (JIT) system: inventory control of laboratory chemicals

· KM at Country ABC Ministry of Health

· KM in education

· KM in the product development process

· KM literacy level of ABC employees

· KM solutions for animation production

· KM tools in business process: documentation, templates, database

· KMS plan for the Support and MIS Departments (term paper)

· Knowledge audit of two business processes in ABC

· Knowledge bank for ABC

· Knowledge harvesting through a KM share portal

· Knowledge repository

· Knowledge sharing for ABC Office

· Knowledge sharing: training plus buddy system

· Knowledge taxonomy for power industry database

· Knowledge transfer from senior retiring staff

· Knowledge transfer from senior to junior engineer

· Knowledge turnover in XYZ staff

· Lead time reduction in reports development and implementation

· Learning Organization Diagnostics

· Lessons learned and problem finding about ABC City lights

· Lessons learned system among sales force

· Lessons-learned meeting at L&D Department

· Lessons-learned session for process improvements

· Lessons-learned session for Work Improvement Team

· LLM on a web-based content management and publication system

· LLM: procedure and documentation

· LLS for process improvement and manualization

· LLSs to accelerate efficiency improvement and cost reduction

· Learning organization diagnostics results for A, B, C and D

· Loan processing: improvements and documentation

· M&E for SWDO of ABC provincial government

· Managing stakeholder capital for fund sourcing

· Manual of operations for Training Department

· Manualization of HACCP system

· Manualization of service desk process for new recruits

· Measuring and assessing creativity/innovativeness of an enterprise

· Measuring R&D productivity of ABC R&D department

· Measuring/assessing innovativeness of an enterprise

· Measuring/evaluating learning organizations

· Mentoring and peer assists in the IT department

· Mining and responding to customer knowledge/requirement

· Mining customer knowledge to improve a process

· Monitoring of service processing time

· National human capital strategy

· New and emerging technologies in e-learning

· New food product development scheme

· New product development process

· Online community for eco-enterprise development and advocacy

· Online repository for ABC Educational Media Center

· Optimized sharing of process documentation and knowledge assets

· Organizing and managing organization-wide participation for ABC

· Participatory method of formulating a knowledge taxonomy

· Policies for a unified document management system

· Portal evaluation: the case of ABC supply chain portal

· Post-conference customer feedback plus lessons learned session

· Process design and documentation

· Process for evaluating individual performance in project teams

· Process improvement in change requests

· Process improvement of the district-level Review Meeting

· Productivity measurement system after a KM best practice

· Project documentation at ABC

· Project documentation/LLS for Methods Improvement Services

· Project handover and knowledge transfer to service management

· Project information integration system

· Project post-mortem and KM solutions identification

· Proposed corporate knowledge portal for ABC

· Quality assurance and solutions exchange community

· Questionnaire: knowledge-sharing versus knowledge-hoarding continuum

· Rapid characterization of best practice in drug product registration

· Raw material database for the R&D unit of XYZ

· Raw material sample tracker system

· Recognize, identify or locate communities of practice

· Reducing delays in submission of a technical report

· Reducing staff downtime in a production unit

· Review of the procurement process at ABC

· Revision of work templates at ABC library

· Sales and marketing manual

· Search/assessment of alternative technologies for digital migration

· Service application process checklist

· Service desk improvement

· Setting up a knowledgebase for a service team

· Setting up a knowledgebase for a unit in XYZ

· Setting up and managing a multi-functional work team (MNC)

· Setting up and managing a multi-functional work team (local company)

· Setting up the Service Bureau Unit at ABC

· Skill gaps analysis

· Skill set description

· Social network analysis of ABC

· Staff performance improvement support system

· Standardized data collection for effective M&E of a research program

· Survey of KM practices in the Philippines

· Tacit skills: identification, validation and documentation

· Targetted selection: a guide to behavioral approach to improved hiring

· Taxonomy exercise for the online help of the ABC sample tracking system

· Team learning in BI web application team

· Team learning through customer satisfaction issues

· Team learning through LLM and online knowledge repository

· Team learning to develop a feedback management system

· Team learning to improve process and output reports

· Team learning/solving/tracking focused on CSAT

· Team portal for software development team

· Template for best practices in the distribution of fixed income securities

· Template for documenting best practices

· Test and system development

· The value creation of semantic web to KM

· Tracing knowledge flows in an academic organization

· Track, measure and assess knowledge-sharing behaviors

· Trade advocacy group: nurturing a community of practice

· Training module for organizational energy program

· Training needs analysis

· Training needs analysis

· Training plan to learn new products and technologies

· Transfer of tacit knowledge of a confectioner

· TS (Technical Support) collaboration strategy

· Using enneagram and MBTI for improving work performance of teams

· Using wikis to capture/document what makes best/good practitioners such

· Various KM initiatives

· Various KM initiatives at factory level

· Vision-Mission-Goals plus team building at team level

· Web Quality Manual

· Web-based data management system for raw materials

· Web-based KM assessment

· Web-based products price list and inventory update for dealers and sales agents

· Web-based systems manual for a new project management group

· Website for virtual collaboration across regional teams

· Work process documentation for XYZ

· XYZ events management system

· XYZ process streamlining