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Guest editing the JOEUC special issue…

The deadline for submissions for Journal of Organizational and End User Computing‘ special issue which I am co-guest editing with Yukika Awazu and Vincent Ribiere has passed. We have received plenty of high quality papers on the announced topic of  ”Interacting with Knowledge Management Systems” from scholars around the world, confirming a strong need for research in this highly interdisciplinary and practically relevant area. First round of double-blind reviews is currently under way, and as it seems from the first inputs from distinguished reviewers, our task of deciding which of the papers to accept for final publication in early 2007, will be more difficult than we initially thought.

Why KM projects get abandoned and why shouldn’t they?

There is my new article titled Menedžment znanja - zakaj toliko propadlih poskusov? published on e-revir portal. The article is in Slovene and it deals - on very practical level - with KM implementation issues. After explaining the reasons why KM practices are seen as crucial antecedents for thriving innovation, the article discusses how to avoid pitfalls and successfully adopt this process innovation that would – in turn - foster the future innovation.

e-revir is a webzine with “useful content” as they say for themselves, providing their visitors with quality articles on business, education, sports, lifestyle, and home and society issues.

Visiting UK - EuroMOT 2006

I have been attending European Management of Technology 2006 (EuroMOT 2006) conference, happening on September 10-12 at Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK. It was one of better conferences on Innovation - many interesting papers and attendees. Great vitamins for the brain and excellent networking opportunity, must say. I have presented a paper on how IT can support and enable the early steps of new product innovation process. The paper was co-authored by Christoph Wecht from BGW Management Advisory Group (Vienna) and University of St Gallen (Switzerland).

The conference was a bit short, though. Anyway, am not leaving The Island immediately, as I am having couple of meetings in Manchester at IRIS-Salford University and Manchester Metropolitan University. Back home for the weekend…

Added ‘Za študente EF’ section

There is new section in my cyber space: ‘Za študente EF‘, which is designed to cater to undergraduate students at Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, who are interested in doing their final thesis with me. The section is in Slovene.

Larry Prusak @ ISOneWorld

I am extremely happy to tell that while I am acting as a KM-track co-chair (along with Murray Jennex, a KM/KMS expert from San Diego State University, USA) for ISOneWorld 2007 conference, the organizers have just confirmed that there is going to be Larry Prusak, a world class KM researcher and consultant, acting as one of our keynote speakers. 

I encourage you to submit your work and attend the ISOneWorld 2007 in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in April 2007. ISOneWorld is a premier US event where academia meets practitioners and vice versa, and latest in practically relevant research is presented. Submissions (in any of the tracks) are due end of September, and after blind review process, notifications will be sent out in mid October. Please find the details at ISOneWorld 2007 website.