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Professor Stefan Smolnik is co-host of two minitracks at the HICSS-50

50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4-7, 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, US

The 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50) will take place 04 - 07 January 2017 on Big Island, Hawaii, USA. Once again Professor Stefan Smolnik is co-host of two minitracks within the track "Knowledge Innovation and Entrepreneurial Systems". The minitrack "Knowledge Management Disrupted - Understanding the Impacts of Social and Mobile Media" is arranged together with the Professors Alexander Richter (IT University Copenhagen) and Andrea Back (Universität St. Gallen); the minitrack "Designing and Deploying Advanced Knowledge Systems" is offered together with Timo Käkölä (University of Jyväskylä, W. David Holford and Pierre Hadaya (both Université du Québec à Montréal).

Short description of the minitrack "Knowledge Management Disrupted - Understanding the Impacts of Social and Mobile Media":

Recent reports show that more and more companies adopt social media to support knowledge management (KM). These companies experience considerable changes in the way they communicate and collaborate internally once they have implemented related technologies and platforms. In addition, the challenges of the digital age make transforming underlying work practices and organizational structures more urgent. While the organizational capacity to deal with social media is maturing, we are far from embracing those changes on knowledge practices. A number of questions is to be addressed: What does the emergence of social and related mobile media mean for KM initiatives in companies? Do they have to and how do they rethink their processes and strategies? What are the timely relevant research fields for academia? Which of our established KM models do still hold, where do we need new models or frameworks? This minitrack calls for contributions that take KM one step further in the light of these contexts.

(Complete CfP) (HICSS-50 Homepage)

Short description des Minitrack "Designing and Deploying Advanced Knowledge Systems":

Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting papers to this minitrack are encouraged to explore (1) how IT can enhance or facilitate the creation, retention, transfer, and application of knowledge; (2) the design, evaluation, and deployment of knowledge systems that integrate emerging technologies like social media, mashups, and ubiquitous IT; (3) project management methods and tools involved in the design and deployment of knowledge systems; and/or (4) changes in knowledge processes and structures due to the use of these technologies. We welcome papers that study IT-enabled knowledge management processes from both an intra- and inter-organizational perspective as well as papers that present an integrative view spanning the entire life-cycle of knowledge systems – from knowledge systems design through deployment to retirement.

(Complete CfP) (HICSS-50 Homepage)