Managing Knowledge Due to Workforce Attrition
Instructors: Kevin Greenes, Benjamin Sagalovsky

Synopsis:
We know (1) that when people leave our organizations their knowledge goes with them and (2) that demographic and economic forces make this an ever more common occurrence. With this knowledge loss, we can lose our competitive edge, our ability to more efficiently make decisions, and often our ability to serve our products and customers. This course presents a conversational model for eliciting past experiences, the key learning that arose from them, and for organizing and presenting knowledge so it can be effectively reused. It introduces a proven methodology for exposing knowledge as it surfaces in daily challenges and for transferring it effectively. We discuss how to identify key knowledge projects that will impact performance and how to carry them out effectively. Besides knowledge capture from at-risk employees, the methodology enables leveraging collective learning to ensure the success of projects and organizational operation.


Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective
Instructor: Eligar Sadeh

Synopsis:
The Space Policy professional development course is designed to provide a comprehensive survey and analysis of space policy encompassing the United State civil and commercial space programs. This course is based on 15 hours of instruction and includes the use of a book edited by Eligar Sadeh entitled Space Politics and Policy: An Evolutionary Perspective (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003) as well as lecture slides. The course examines space policy at several levels of analysis including historical context, political actors and institutions, political processes and policy outcomes; examines the symbiotic relationships between policy, technology, and science; provides a review and synthesis of the existing body of knowledge in space policy; and identifies space policy trends and developments from the beginnings of the space age to the current era of the twenty-first century.