LGE 604 - Technology Assisted Decision-Making, Global Internet Security, and Knowledge Management

Credits: 5
The course opens with an examination of cognitive weakness and bias in decision-making and how technology can help to neutralize them. Leveraging the information component of an organization by first, fostering a proprietary knowledge culture and identifying and capturing institutional knowledge, and second, by building a state-of-the-art infrastructure to protect, store, access and disseminate knowledge across borders. A holistic view of knowledge management with immediate relevance for each participant’s global workspace is examined. Finally, a risk-based security model, to quarantine and eliminate threats & vulnerabilities to that knowledge, and the countermeasures necessary to better secure information. . The concluding one week virtual residency provides a final round of assessments to measure learning against initial baseline assessments. As a culminating experience, each student will conduct a mini-class demonstrating applications of his or her finished dashboard.