A proposal for the professionalization of knowledge management in Colombia

This article has an objective to present to the country a program of posgraduate course that contribute to the professionalization of the knowledge Management. This program is constituted in one of the challenges that the Systems Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Catolica de Colombia has designed to be to the vanguard of the opportunities and challenges that proposes a world globalized, whose economy is comprising businesses and industrious that produce, they exchange, they store and they consume know-how. After a brief introduction in the second part the motives are exponed that give sense to the formulation and set in motion of this program. In the third part are presented the conceptual elements that compose that program and how these they are related among itself to conform like the comceptual triad. This triad permits to identify what, how and why of the specialization. In the quarter part the need to establish is emphasized a profile ot the agent of khowledge or Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and a general proposal of its characteristics is done, functions, objective and concrete tasks that should develop. Finally, is not sufficient to include the role of CKO in the business, but is also necessary to have a system of incentives that motivate the people to participate in the development of initiatives associated with the management of the knowledge.