COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AMONG IT-CONSULTANTS - The Need for Collective and Structured Reflection

Stefan Cronholm, Göran Goldkuhl

2009

Abstract

This paper is about the knowledge transferring between IT-consultants. IT-consultants are involved in many complex and challenging situations. They need to manage organisational, semantic and technical issues. Managing this complexity requires a high and a variety of competences. Examples of competences needed are business development, project management, information system development methods and techniques. An IT-consultant often makes continuous movements between different assignments and clients. The competence developed is often individually based. Individually based knowledge is not sufficient since the IT-consultants have to carry organisational working procedures. Furthermore, the competence needed is not static; it is something that should evolve dynamically. In this paper we are proposing a collective competence development approach. The collective competence development approach consists of a process model and a conceptual model. The aim of both these models is to make individual based knowledge as subject to collective reflection.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cronholm S. and Goldkuhl G. (2009). COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AMONG IT-CONSULTANTS - The Need for Collective and Structured Reflection . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-013-9, pages 258-261. DOI: 10.5220/0002271702580261

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis09,
author={Stefan Cronholm and Göran Goldkuhl},
title={COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AMONG IT-CONSULTANTS - The Need for Collective and Structured Reflection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={258-261},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002271702580261},
isbn={978-989-674-013-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009)
TI - COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AMONG IT-CONSULTANTS - The Need for Collective and Structured Reflection
SN - 978-989-674-013-9
AU - Cronholm S.
AU - Goldkuhl G.
PY - 2009
SP - 258
EP - 261
DO - 10.5220/0002271702580261