- To examine central issues in the management of information and knowledge from a strategic perspective
- To contrast differing ways of looking at information, knowledge and strategy with a particular focus on the opposition between a systemscontrol perspective and a process / relational perspective
- To explore a number of contrasts – information and knowledge, technology and people, global and local cultures, information and business strategies – that shape the agenda in contemporary organisations
- To encourage participants to apply these ideas to their own organisations and to critically challenge them on the basis of their developing understanding