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.

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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


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@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},
}


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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