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Chairing KM and KMS track at AMCIS 2009

It is a great pleasure to share another great news. Proposal for AMCIS 2009 mini-track entitled “Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems” has been accepted. David Croasdell, Ron Freeze and me will be chairing it and we are looking forward to another great event. Presentations and discussions last year were great and I am sure we will attract high quality submissions for the forthcoming one again.

-> Call for papers (PDF).  Need any info? Email me.

Deadline for submissions: February 20. Conference date: August 6-9. Location: San Francisco, CA.

The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals sponsored by the AIS-Association for Information Systems. AMCIS is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious conferences for IS/IT in the Western Hemisphere, and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed information systems research papers, over 700 of which are submitted each year.

Guest editing a JUCS special issue

I am glad to share that I am guest-editing a renowned SCI-indexed Journal of Universal Computing’s special issue, along with my colleague Prof Sung Ho Ha of Kyungpook National University, Korea. The issue aims to foretell how the Internet plays a role of knowledge networks in the near future. Excerpt from the Call For Papers:

The Internet as a knowledge repository, distribution channel, and knowledge network.

The Internet is able to connect knowledge, knowledge holders, knowledge bases, and knowledge systems of various kinds of organizations, and distribute that knowledge to other organizations, people, and locations. This new possibility of the Internet goes beyond the traditional information storage and distribution ability. Furthermore the Internet evolving to the knowledge networks (e.g., networks for teaching service, people acquaintance, hi-tech product design, or corporate knowledge), possesses powerful implications of knowledge internationalization of businesses, governments, and customers in the whole world. This special issue of JUCS seeks original articles on “The Internet as a knowledge repository, distribution channel, and knowledge network.” Rather than project plans or purely reflective or vision papers, we prefer case studies of implemented systems or descriptions of innovative technologies, highlighting actual usage results. Reflecting those results to the theoretical findings and possible future research in information systems, computer systems, knowledge management, organizational design, organizational learning, social networks, sociology, management science, and other research areas, will ideally have informed both current and future business practice and theories.

Drop me an email for more details.

Fit for {IT} - presenting at Microsoft Partner’s Academy

I have been invited to hold two workshop presentations at Microsoft “Fit for {IT}”, an educational initiative for Microsoft’s Partners. They will be held in Ljubljana and Maribor, 6 times a year. Each of the six meetings aims at a specific product or solution, mine being “Unleashing the business value of Microsoft Office System 2007″. As these workshops are hosted only by the “best in class” presenters, this is a special occasion. Below is the invitation that was sent to MS’ partners.

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Fit za {IT} - november 2008

Vljudno vas vabimo na novembrski srečanji, ki ju pripravljamo 10. novembra v Mariboru in 11. novembra v Ljubljani. Tokrat smo k sodelovanju povabili Petra Baloha, predavatelja na Ekonomski fakulteti in avtorja oz. soavtorja številnih priročnikov s področja Microsoft Office-a. Od leta 1996 uspešno pomaga podjetjem uvajati spremembe poslovanja, ki temeljijo na boljši izrabi sodobnih informacijskih tehnologij.

Prehod na MS Office 2007

Pri prehodu na novo tehnologijo obstajajo vedno dileme o smiselnosti početja. Pri Office 2007 so te še toliko večje, saj so ključni programi zbirke »zapakirani« v popolnoma spremenjen grafični vmesnik, ki se ga mora uporabnik najprej privaditi. Ali ni dovolj kar stara različica ali pa kakšna druga programska oprema? Ali gre pri novem grafičnem vmesniku le za šminko ali tudi kaj več? Prednosti in sprememb pri različici 2007 je resnično veliko; tako na nivoju posameznega uporabnika kot na nivoju celotnega podjetja, v katerem ga uporabljajo. Ne gre le za »še eno« (običajno) različico Office-a temveč za spremenjen koncept »pisarniških« orodij, ki zahtevajo miselni preskok tako pri njihovi uporabi kot pri njihovi prodaji.
V predavanju bomo tako na sistem Office 2007 pogledali iz vidika stranke in iz vidika Microsoftovega partnerja. Stranko zanima, katere so novosti, prednosti in izzivi pri uporabi sistema kot zbirke programov in pri uporabi posameznih programov. Kaj je tisto, kar jih bo prepričalo, da se splača preiti na različico 2007? Kaj bodo pridobili posamezniki znotraj podjetja in podjetje kot celota? Na vse elemente bomo pogledali konceptualno in jih demonstrirali preko praktičnega primera uporabe. Iz vidika partnerja pa bomo obravnavali, kako pristopiti k prodaji in deploymentu MS Office 2007: kaj pričakujejo stranke, kako odgovoriti na njihove najpogostejše dileme, in kako zagotoviti, da bo projekt prehoda pri strankah uspešen projekt.