The Eastern Cape Department of Transport started the training of 25 officials selected for the Innovation Knowledge Management at the Health Contact Centre, Virgin Active Building in East London on 18 October 2011.
Innovation Knowledge Management (IKM) is a new concept that is being introduced to Government by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) through the assistance of GIZ which has contracted Pinoak Consulting from Johannesburg to conduct IKM training in the Eastern Cape Province.
This initiative is intended to encourage staff to be more innovative, creative and it also looks to identify pockets of excellence.
The need to train departmental officials as champions of this initiative came as a result of findings made by Professor Zak of Pinoak Consulting, after he had interviewed Senior Officials and analysed questionnaires that were conducted by the department’s Organisational Development (OD).
The Office of the Premier had requested that the department identify potential people who can be trained in IKM and four people per district, amongst them should be the following;
- 1x Records Management
- 1x Public Transport
- 1x Traffic Control
- 1x Human Resources /OD
These staff members will be trained as champions and will be utilised by the department to roll out IKM.
Based on the analysis by Professor Zak, departmental guidelines/strategies will be developed and this will also include consultations for further inputs by the department and the Office of the Premier before being presented to Departmental Top Management for approval.
