Knowledge based working follows knowledge based learning which means organized planning and execution of policies, programmes by collective utilization of intellectual assets, paving the way for creating a conducive environment that ensures learning and working with superior capabilitie through clear understanding of the situational issues and problems.

We need to put the old and new ideas together from a diverse range of areas in a way the people can understand for improving their worklife. As leaders of educational  institutions every one will have to work
for improved performance of the systems that they are working for. As the people; ‘developing the persons that make the nation’ we need to focus on quality of knowledge workers we generate.

Before concieving a plan for development we need to answer the question; ‘What are we going to do to day , why and how we intend to do it to-morrow?’

The solutions to the above question can be found after getting a clarity of  understanding of the situational factors that contribute to the qualities of the ‘knowledge worker’ we intend generating. Some of them are as follows; He/ she is adequately eucated, highly creative and is adaptable to change.

It is becoming extremely difficult to think of a job where knowledge is not used at all. Tacit knowledge has to be converted in to explicit knowlege for the use of people. Knowledge is portable. Knowledge workers can become location independent by way of capitalizing the new technologies for improved connetivity to link the organizations. Mobility of knowledge based working presents both challeges and opportunities. Knowledge based working needs to be flexible balancing the; personal, work and family commitments. Talent Attraction Wars will have to be fought with healthy principles and practices.

Capitalize on the attractive power of; “freedom factor” while recruiting, training and re-training. Learning and Working are the two sides of a ‘career coin’. They are two elements of the same process. Absence of any one will make it value less.

Considering the above, it is difficult in the knowledge era of the New millenium to find; ‘ where the learning should start and where it is to end’. We need to recognize the reality that, ‘learning is focussed on work, where the learning ends the work starts, where the work ends learning starts as training, when the work life gets blunt the learning again sharpens it through its re-training’.

The essence of devising “Learning Management Systems” is with a determined purpose of  improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the ‘ knowledge work force ‘ with enhanced productive updated skill sets that provide increased; ‘ Returns On Investments (ROI)‘ of the knowledge gaining and sharing activities that we intend offering in the institutions. We need to ‘ Think for Work ’ and to  transform the worker to a thinker. For this to happen the process/(es) will have to be continuous making the ‘knowledge workers continuos learners and beome virtually the learning machines’ Our endeavor is for making the system work eliminating or minimizing the ‘chaos and disorder’ as they are often the ‘mothers and fathers’ of innovation. Think it Over .....?