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Innovation is the key. Cost-effective and agile innovation is a must!

In today's globally competitive, fast paced world those who lead will need to know how to leverage what their organizations know in order to create a sustainable competitive advantage for both themselves and their organization. A degree in Knowledge Management will allow you to help your organization not only survive but thrive in this hyper competitive knowledge based world.

Often favored today over its “first cousin,” the MBA, MKM graduates are equipped to meet organizational challenges in the age of information and technology. Harnessing knowledge and maximizing workforce efforts is the linchpin of organizational success, and MKM graduates will be able to:

• Enhance employee and team performance across the board... and across the globe
• Foster innovation in research, operations, product design, marketing and sales
• Build and Transfer knowledge seamlessly throughout an enterprise
• Identify, acquire, organize, share, use, and leverage knowledge to achieve organizational goals
• Strategically position world-class organizations in a changing, global economy

What is Knowledge Management and how is an MKM different from other degree choices?

While the MKM’s interdisciplinary content includes many of the topics covered in a traditional MBA program, MKM graduates will ALSO be equipped to lead organizations in acquiring, developing, deploying, and sharing knowledge in order to create value for themselves and their organizations.

Knowledge Management is...

• About creating value by building and leveraging what your organization knows.
• The process through which an organization maximizes value from its intellectual and knowledge-based assets (what it knows), including its people, processes, and technologies.

With the Master’s in Knowledge Management you can...

• Lead a fortune 500 company as the CEO or CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer)
• Serve as the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of a global business or organization
• Become a highly sought-after Engineer-Manager (EM) with a synthesis of technological, communication and management skills that rival your engineering manager counterparts
• Lead public- and private-sector organizations to successfully compete in today’s fast-paced, global economy
• Manage one of the many growing and start-up 21st century knowledge-based organizations. Today, businesses that employ Knowledge Professionals/Officers include: Earnest & Young, Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne, Vcorp Services, Chevron and Xerox ... to name a few.

In this Information Age, industries that manage and provide services, information and knowledge – especially those that cannot be outsourced – will continue increasing in size and demand. To manage the 21st century enterprise, leaders need to be savvy in utilizing relevant technologies, engaging modern communications, effectively managing distant and diverse staff, and leveraging global networks and economic realities to achieve competitive strategic goals. To that end, the CSUN MKM program uniquely prepares the managerial leader for the 21st century economy and organization.

Change the world one organization at a time with a Master’s degree in Knowledge Management from CSUN!