Knowledge management in NITC: Challenges and opportunities

Challenges

• The change in management affects the functioning of NITC. We experienced this in NITC top level and in SOMS also. So we need to have a proper knowledge management system to overcome such issues
• Islands of excellence: Individually each department in NIT is excellent in their areas of knowledge. But when it comes to sharing of knowledge, it is not so good. Having a proper knowledge management system will help NIT to drive it beyond the best of its kind. 
• Giving contracts to same people is another challenge. This happens because of lack of information processing and lack of transparency in the system. Knowledge management can bring transparency in system.
• Inter-department collaboration is another area of concern. 
• Bringing external knowledge in the system for the betterment of NITC is a major area to work on. Most of the time we don't care to bring knowledge from outside. Sometimes we forget the things happened in NIT itself. Abandoned PGDM  curse is an example. NIT is not able to incorporate the best practices achieved. 
• We are conducting lot of international and national seminars. Only a few people are getting benefited. There is no mechanism to share the knowledge gained through such conferences.
• Expertise of faculty and students are not shared for common benefit. It is very difficult to find a suitable person for guidance.
• The learning from fests are limited to few people. Most of the time people repeat the same mistake.

Opportunities

• Sharing of knowledge with other NITs is possible 
• NITs can have a common space to come together and interact
• Working with Alumni can be improved
• Industry interaction for each department can be improved by knowledge management. 
• Sharing of best practices among departments and within departments.
• Can include more audit and credit courses. This can be made more flexible
• Technology Business incubator gives opportunities to young entrepreneurs.
• Academic development of the college. 
• Bringing a proper mechanism to share the research and project works.