ISO 30401:2018 Knowledge Management Systems Internal Auditor

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Develop knowledge management internal audit skills through 12 modules and 36 text lessons with exercises and model feedback. Evaluate critical knowledge needs, development, exchange, retention, renewal, enablers, culture, leadership, operational controls and meaningful effectiveness measures. Practise planning, sampling, interviews, findings, reporting and corrective-action follow-up. Includes a 40-question exam and a marked practical assignment. Total workload: 14 hours excluding breaks.

LO01: Explain knowledge, organizational value and applicable audit criteria.
LO02: Audit stakeholder needs, critical knowledge, boundaries and system interactions.
LO03: Evaluate acquisition, application, retention, renewal and knowledge flows.
LO04: Assess people, processes, infrastructure, governance and leadership behaviours.
LO05: Trace risks, objectives, competence, awareness, communication and controlled information.
LO06: Evaluate knowledge processes, changes, external contributions and responsible use.
LO07: Test meaningful indicators, internal audit, management review and corrective action.
LO08: Apply objectivity, competence and risk-based internal audit programmes.
LO09: Prepare audit plans, process questions and justified evidence samples.
LO10: Use interviews, observation and reliable evidence to evaluate knowledge use.
LO11: Write defensible findings and verify effective corrective action.
LO12: Complete a KMS audit rehearsal and prepare for supervised workplace practice.

Course Content

Knowledge management foundations
Explain knowledge, organizational value and applicable audit criteria.

Course route and the internal auditor role
Knowledge, information and organizational value
Standard, amendments and audit criteria

Context, knowledge needs and scope
Audit stakeholder needs, critical knowledge, boundaries and system interactions.

Knowledge development and exchange
Evaluate acquisition, application, retention, renewal and knowledge flows.

Enablers, culture and leadership
Assess people, processes, infrastructure, governance and leadership behaviours.

Planning and support
Trace risks, objectives, competence, awareness, communication and controlled information.

Operating the knowledge management system
Evaluate knowledge processes, changes, external contributions and responsible use.

Performance evaluation and improvement
Test meaningful indicators, internal audit, management review and corrective action.

Audit principles and programme management
Apply objectivity, competence and risk-based internal audit programmes.

Audit preparation, planning and sampling
Prepare audit plans, process questions and justified evidence samples.

Conducting the knowledge management audit
Use interviews, observation and reliable evidence to evaluate knowledge use.

Findings, reporting and follow-up
Write defensible findings and verify effective corrective action.

Integrated practice and workplace application
Complete a KMS audit rehearsal and prepare for supervised workplace practice.

Assessment

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Course Content

Knowledge management foundations Explain knowledge, organizational value and applicable audit criteria.

Course route and the internal auditor role

Knowledge, information and organizational value

Standard, amendments and audit criteria

Context, knowledge needs and scope Audit stakeholder needs, critical knowledge, boundaries and system interactions.

Context and interested-party knowledge needs — clause 4

Critical knowledge and dependency analysis

KMS scope and process interactions — 4.3–4.4

Knowledge development and exchange Evaluate acquisition, application, retention, renewal and knowledge flows.

Knowledge acquisition and application — 4.4

Knowledge retention and renewal — 4.4

Knowledge exchange and transformation — 4.4

Enablers, culture and leadership Assess people, processes, infrastructure, governance and leadership behaviours.

Knowledge-management enablers — 4.4

Knowledge-management culture — 4.5

Leadership, policy and roles — clause 5

Planning and support Trace risks, objectives, competence, awareness, communication and controlled information.

Risks, opportunities and knowledge objectives — clause 6

Resources, competence, awareness and communication — 7.1–7.4

Documented information and knowledge assets — 7.5

Operating the knowledge management system Evaluate knowledge processes, changes, external contributions and responsible use.

Operational planning and control — clause 8

Project learning, handover and external knowledge

Digital platforms, search and AI-assisted knowledge use

Performance evaluation and improvement Test meaningful indicators, internal audit, management review and corrective action.

Monitoring, measurement and evaluation — 9.1

Internal audit and management review — 9.2–9.3

Nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement — clause 10

Audit principles and programme management Apply objectivity, competence and risk-based internal audit programmes.

Audit principles and professional conduct

Auditor competence and team selection

Managing the internal audit programme

Audit preparation, planning and sampling Prepare audit plans, process questions and justified evidence samples.

Preparing audit objectives, scope and criteria

Audit plans and process questions

Sampling and evidence sufficiency

Conducting the knowledge management audit Use interviews, observation and reliable evidence to evaluate knowledge use.

Opening the audit and managing communication

Interviews and observation of knowledge use

Digital evidence and traceability

Findings, reporting and follow-up Write defensible findings and verify effective corrective action.

Evaluating evidence and writing findings

Audit reports and closing meetings

Corrective-action follow-up and effectiveness

Integrated practice and workplace application Complete a KMS audit rehearsal and prepare for supervised workplace practice.

Integrated KMS audit rehearsal

Assessment preparation and common judgement errors

Applying learning in the workplace