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Join us at ISOneWorld 2008

For the second year in a row I have been invited to act as a KM-track co-chair (along with Murray Jennex, a KM/KMS expert from San Diego State University, USA) at the ISOneWorld conference. 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 beginning of March 2008. 

The organizers, Information Institute, have confirmed that this year Larry Prusak, a world class KM researcher and consultant, is going to be acting as one of our keynote speakers. He is going to be hosting ‘audience’ - an interactive (no slides) event, a great opportunity for a constructive debate in a friendly / professional / motivating environment, and, a great opportunity to meet fellow researchers and practitioners from your own field. Doug Peebles will be presenting the latest cutting edge innovations from SAP and other industry initiatives whereas Ian Angel is an excellent speaker with global experience of Security Systems. Moreover, a special session has been arranged to announce the forthcoming Springer ‘Annals of Information Systems’ volume on ‘Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning’ edited by Bill King.

I encourage you to submit your work and attend the ISOneWorld 2008 in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in June 2008 - an excellent event to catch. See you there.

Paper in JOEUC KMS special issue published!

Finally the first volume of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing special issue on Knowledge Management Systems that I co-guest edited with Yukika Awazu (Bentley College) and Vincent Ribiere (NY Institute of Technology) has now appeared in press. I am honored that after double blind review, among very high quality submissions, my paper also got accepted by the distinguished board of reviewers.

Citation: Baloh, P. (2007). The Role of Fit in the Knowledge Management Systems: Tentative Propositions of the KMS Design. Journal of Organizational & End User Computing, 19(4), 22-41.

Abstract: While most organizations have deployed knowledge management systems (KMS), only a handful have been able to leverage these investments. Existing knowledge management (KM) research offered valuable insights on how to introduce KMS in a sense of innovation-diffusion, yet little guidance has been offered to KMS developers who need to decide on functionalities of a tool they are to introduce in a particular organizational setting. The goal of this paper is to propose theoretical background for design of IS that successfully support and enable decision making, which is seen as the ultimate form of knowledge creation and utilization. By using principles of the design science, design profiles proposed build upon works from organization and IS sciences, primarily the evolutionary information-processing theory of knowledge creation (Li & Kettinger, 2006) and the task technology fit theory (Zigurs & Buckland, 1998), the latter being amended for particularities of the KM environment. Proposed fit profiles suggest that one-size-fits-all approaches do not work and that organizations must take, in contrast with suggestions of extant literature, a segmented approach to KM activities and fitting IT support.

Interested in publishing in the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing? As ranked by the AIS, it holds the 36th place among the worlds’ top 50 IS journals. See more information about the journal here.