Thursday, October 12, 2006

From knowledge management to knowledge acquisition

This photo of Kate Muir, appeared in the October 2006 edition of the "Public Sector Informant".

Kate is stated as being a student at the University of Canberra's Master of Business Informatics course. The photo is published in what is referred to as an "Advertising Feature" on Training and Development Solutions in a section entitled "Growing Demand for Business Analysts"

Kate is quoted as saying: "I believed that the Masters of Business Informatics would give me . . . the academic background to areas I had worked in."

For those of us who knew Kate when she was "just a manager," it is delightful to read that she has put herself back in the traces to obtain yet another degree and this time, a post graduate qualification.

Onya Kate!

The article in context comes at a time when Sandra Rossi stated on 06/09/2006 10:34:38 in an article entitled "Accreditation introduced for business analysts" published on Computerworld.com.au that:

"The growing industry trend toward accreditation has reached the business analyst community which is introducing its own formal certification process.

The Australian Business Analyst Association (ABAA) today announced the introduction of a baseline accreditation for business analysts."

Of course the competency based movement has had competency standards for business analysis for some time. Readers interested in these standards should look at: http://www.ntis.gov.au/ for information

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