Dubai Customs bags Knowledge Management Middle East 2015 Excellence Award - EMIRNA

26-Mar-2015 18:45

DUBAI, 26th March, 2015 (WAM) -- Dubai Customs has received AN Excellence Award from THE Knowledge Management, KM, Middle East 2015 Conference, recently held in Dubai under the theme, "Knowledge Management in Action: Best Practices, Emerging Ideas and Time-Tested Techniques".

Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director of Dubai Customs, received the Award from Juma Al Ghaith, Executive Director of Customs Development Division, in the presence of Mohammed Al Khaja, Executive Director of Clients Management Division, Ahmed bin Lahej, Director, Air Customs Centres Management, Hussam Juma Mohammed, Director of Business Process Department alongside the award team.

Ahmed Mahboob Musabih commented on this achievement, "Dubai Customs upheld the concept of a 'learning organisation' driven by the grand shifts taking place in today's competitive world. The move is aimed at realising the vision of our wise leadership in creating a knowledge based economy." He added, "The knowledge management vision we are adopting is always geared towards establishing a pioneer smart organisation via the optimal utilisation of human capital." Juma Al Ghaith said, "Dubai Customs adopts multiple techniques for knowledge management, mainly using tailored knowledge management workshops with disciplinary spectrums of documenting implicit knowledge and disseminating explicit knowledge through our Enterprise Connected View web portal." Hussam Juma received the award at the closing ceremony of the conference, as a token of admiration of the department's exquisite efforts in harnessing the best practices in knowledge management as well in the innovation of multiple systems designated at nurturing both knowledge and institutional capacities as well as in identifying internal and external knowledge sources for optimal benefit.

The conference, held for the fifth year consecutively, was geared for this year towards rethinking technology in knowledge creation. It hosted an elite of international speakers, academics, leading knowledge management practitioners, as well as business and government leaders.

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