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We are delighted to have Larry Prusak and
Karlheinz Kautz
as keynote speakers.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
For personal reasons Larry now will be giving his keynote speech from Boston via Video Conference link. You will be able to see Larry and he will be able to see us. Larry will also take questions from the floor. Larry will now be addressing us from 9.00 - 10.30 on Tuesday morning to take the time differences into account.
 Larry
Prusak |
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The Past, Present and Future of Knowledge Management
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Knowledge Management as a practice and as an object of management research took off about two decades ago and, under varying names, shows no signs of slowing down. It would seem that now would be a good time to take stock and see what have we all accomplished, what the current situation is, and what are some some signs of future developments as knowledge becomes more and more acknowledged as a critical source of wealth in the world. |
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About the speaker |
Larry Prusak is a researcher and consultant and was formerly
the founder and Executive Director of IBM Institute for Knowledge
Management (IKM), a global consortium of member organizations
engaged in advancing the practice of knowledge management through
action research. Larry has had extensive experience, within
the U.S. and internationally, in helping organizations work
with their information and knowledge resources. He has also
consulted with many U.S. and overseas government agencies and
international organizations (NGO’s). He currently teaches in the knowledge management executive education program at the Harvard Business School, and has been a distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College, where he co-directs a knowledge research program. |
|  Karlheinz Kautz |
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A Unified Model of Knowledge Sharing – Insights from a Case Study in the IT industry
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This paper adds to the discussion on knowledge management by focusing on the process of knowledge sharing as a vital part of knowledge management, and on the relationship between knowledge, learning and communication and the role of social interaction and technical media in this process. On the background an extensive literature study we develop an initial theoretical framework of knowledge sharing and refine it on the basis of an empirical study performed in a Danish IT company to a unified model of knowledge sharing. The model is used to suggest an explanation of what supports, what hinders and how to improve knowledge sharing in the investigated case. |
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About the speaker |
Karlheinz Kautz, Dr philos is professor in Systems Development & Software Engineering at Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business School . Previously he has been employed as a senior researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center and as a lecturer at universities in Germany , Norway, England and Denmark . He is the chairman of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 on Diffusion, Transfer, and Implementation of Information Technology. His research interests are in systems development and system development methodologies in practice, the diffusion and adoption of information technology innovations, knowledge management, especially in the IT industry and software quality and process improvement. He has published in these areas in journals like Information and Software Technology, Information, Technology & People, the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, IEEE Software, Journal of Knowledge Management, the Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Informing Science, the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications. He is an editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information System, and associate editor of Information Technology & People as well as an editorial board member of several other IS journals. He is a member of AIS , ACM and IEEE. In the first half of 2005 he was a guest of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Information Systems, Technology & Management, and in the second half of the year he is staying at the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Caulfield Campus School of Information Technology as a Visiting Professor. |
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