Congratulations to our member Constantin Bratianu on his recent book Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation published by IGI Global. The book discusses the dynamics of knowledge-intensive organizations, whose understanding is a crucial first step in establishing a strong knowledge base for any company. The book introduces the idea that organizational knowledge is composed of three knowledge fields: cognitive knowledge, emotional knowledge, and spiritual knowledge. For further details see here.

Our member Franz Lehner would like to inform about the success of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management that he co-chaired as Program Chair and Local Co-Chair at the University of Passau, Germany. More details can be found here and on the conference website at http://ksem2016.org/.

The 6th issue of the WHATSIAKM is available now. It is addressed to both members and non-members of the IAKM. You may download it here. 

On 20-21 October 2016 the International Conference STRATEGICA organized by the Faculty of Management, SNSPA, Bucharest and National Bank of Romania brought together many participants, among them also many members of IAKM, and Ettore Bolisani, the president of the IAKM, was one of the Guest Speakers. More information about the conference can be found here. Photo of the Special guests can be found here. 

Education is a hot topic for the KM community, and this year our Association has led a number of initiatives and project on this. Here, we report on the special Panel entitled “Knowledge Management Education: Five Ws and One H” that was organized at ICKM 2016 in Vienna by IAKM members Meliha Handzic, John Edwards, Sandra Moffett, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Aino Kianto and Ettore Bolisani.

More information about the event can be found here. 

Congratulations to our member John Edwards (Aston University - UK) and to Eduardo Rodriguez Taborda (University of Ottawa and IQAnalytics – Canada) who won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Knowledge Management in Vienna (10-11 October 2016), for their paper “Using Knowledge Management to Give Context to Analytics and Big Data and Reduce Strategic Risk”.

The 2016 General Assembly took place at Ulster University (Belfast, UK) on 31st August 2016, just before the European Conference on Knowledge Management.

Photo gallery from the Assembly

This year our Association was asked to collaborate on the organization of a Doctoral Workshop to be held at Ulster University on 31st August, the day before the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management is not, certainly, a mature field, and there are more open questions than definitive answers: this is clearly a challenge for research and practice, but this is also the reason for its appeal among senior and young researchers. The workshop title “So what is Next on the KM Horizon?” sounded quite evocative, and surely appropriate for encouraging a lively debate involving the participants – about 30 people including PhD students, senior researchers, and IAKM members. Indeed, to promote the active involvement was exactly the purpose of the organizers - Sandra Moffett (Ulster University, UK), Alexeis Garcia-Perez (Coventry University, UK) and Ettore Bolisani (University of Padova, Italy), all members of the IAKM Board. 

Report from the Workshop can be found here.

Photos from the workshop can be found here. 

A Special Track on “KM in Education and Education in KM” was organized at ECKM 2016 in Belfast (co-chairs: Sandra Moffett, Alexeis Garcia-Perez and Ettore Bolisani). 13 papers were submitted and subjected to a careful revision. Those accepted were presented at the Conference and, among these, the track Chairs selected the BEST PAPER AWARD winner and the MOST INNOVATIVE AWARD winner. The winning papers will be subjected to a second review and will be invited to submit a revised version to two authoritative KM journals.

Detailed information on the IAKM – ECKM Papers Awards – First Edition

Photo Gallery from the IAKM Special Track

The 5th issue of the WHATSIAKM is available now. It is addressed to both members and non-members of the IAKM. You may download it here.