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Track:
Knowledge Management Systems
Minitrack:
Knowledge Management for Creativity and Innovation
After more than a decade of knowledge management research,
organizations continue to question how knowledge is created and
transformed into business value. And how KM contributes to
creativity and innovation both at the individual and
organizational level.
Often cited as a primary reason organizations get involved in KM,
the actual focus for both researchers and organizations has been
more related to incremental improvements, exploiting and
transferring existing practices and techniques.
Over the past few years, however, a fundamental transformation has
been taking place, where the inflows and outflows of knowledge
have expanded to accelerate internal innovation and expand the
markets for external use of innovation. This alternative approach
to organizing for innovation in an open environment with multiple
participants (i.e., customers, suppliers, partner firms, and
developers) in communities or markets, seem to meet the challenge
of accessing distributed knowledge. They demonstrate the
effectiveness of new methods and organizational structures for
improving innovation outcomes by engaging a broader base of
outside knowledge holders and raise important new issues about how
knowledge is created and applied to derive business value,
generate new ideas, and develop new products and solutions.
In line with this challenging research issue, the objective of
this mini track is to draw appropriate papers on the broadest
range of research methodologies including case studies, action
research, experimentation, survey, and simulation.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
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Knowledge co-creation in
communities, markets and open platforms.
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Ideas lifecycle management
(generation, selection and diffusion) techniques
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Knowledge and action: how
knowledge is developed, transformed, interpreted and used to make
effective decisions and take action
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KM and New Product
Development: how KM contributes to the generation, evaluation and
implementation of new products, services, processes and solutions
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Knowledge generation and
management in virtual worlds
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KM/KMS support for
collaborative and creative work, e.g., design, research and development,
exploration, customer support
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Knowledge sharing, diffusion
and creativity, as influenced by different organization cultures and
structures
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Managing knowledge
exploitation vs. exploration dilemmas
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Mechanisms associated with
KM, creativity and innovation
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The use of KM to reduce risk
in creative/innovative processes
Minitrack Co-Chair:
Hind Benbya (Primary
contact)
GSCM Montpellier Business School
2300, Avenue des Moulins
34185 Montpellier Cedex 4
France
Tel: +33-4-67-10-2819
Fax: +33-4-67-45-1356
Email:
Benbya@gmail.com; h.benbya@supco-montpellier.fr
Lynne P. Cooper
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
MS 303-310
Pasadena CA 91109
Phone: 818-393-3080
Fax: 818-393-5143
Email:
lynne.p.cooper@jpl.nasa.gov
R. Keith Sawyer
Washington University
Department of Education
Campus Box 1183
St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone: 314-935-8724
Email:ksawyer@wustl.edu
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