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Oh whadda June

Last couple of weeks were hectic, to say nothing less.

So in second half of May I finally found the time to revise my MPhil according to the (very favorable) reviewers’ comments I received in April 08, do all the administration with regards to this and submit the hard-bound and final thesis to the IRIS institute at University of Salford. ‘Been ready to get that degree for the last year since I wrapped it up :D :D :D   I am pleased with what I did and am looking forward to the MPhil degree awarded by this institution which is one of the rare UK’s 6* research rating institutes.

Another big thing needed a final revision. My Int Journal of Information Management submission which I have coauthored with colleagues from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. We have had a very nice case study with Samsung Electronics while I was in Korea, we wrote it down, submitted, and has now already been accepted for publication in this highly acclaimed SCI indexed journal. The paper is about organizational change related to knowledge management practices, learning from practice about innovation deployment and adoption, and reflecting practical experience to the most recent existing research out there. The paper is forthcoming in the October issue of IJIM. Gratitude to all the people who were involved in publication - coauthors Gyewan Moon and Katharina Uthicke from Daegu, Samsung Electronics Gumi Korea for access, journal’ case editor Prof Dr Ray Hackney, reviewers, and the editor Prof Dr Phillip Hills. It was a steep learning curve in all aspects.

Moving on I had two extensive reviewing roles, one for ICIS 2008 and the other for JASIST. I really need to learn how to do a decent review faster :/  Hopefully at least they were decent enough for the editors and authors.

It was also about time to get my hands and finish writing my forthcoming book which I coauthored together with Peter Vre?ar: Business process informatization and decision support with MS Access 2007 that is being published by Pasadena, the biggest Slovene publisher and distributor of books for the information age. So I managed to have this done tonight and ticked another big project off. Time to celebrate.

Plus, we’ve been busy re-designing our flat, as the baby is coming any time now. Yippie!!!

Whadda June. And it’s just good half way through :O