Knowledge management systems design research June 3, 2009

Peter Baloh, a research fellow at Information Management department of Faculty of Economics Ljubljana University, Slovenia will be hosting this seminar from the Informatics Research Insititute.

Profile:
Peter is a research fellow at Information Management department of Faculty of Economics Ljubljana University, Slovenia, the only EQUIS accredited school in South-Eastern Europe. He is active in the areas of Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation, Project Management and Knowledge Management, which are considered through the lens of successful implementation in various organisational settings. He has authored over 40 articles, which were presented atinternational conferences, featured or published in practitioner and academic journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, IEEE Software, International Journal of Information Management, Research-Technology Management, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Knowledge and Process Management, Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal, Manager, among others.

Abstract:
Doing research is about arriving to new findings that provide practical and theoretical contributions. Without the latter, piece of research is unpublishable in respectable publishing venues. Without the former, it is difficult to engage real-world organisations in research; thisdecreases our chances of getting funded and collect data, which in turn endangers our whole research. This chicken-egg dilemma isreflected in academia as rigor vs. relevance debate. The goal of this talk is to share advice of why and how to do both practically and theoretically relevant research. This will be done through an example of such research that was performed in some of the worlds most innovative and knowledge-aware companies, Parsons Brinckerhoff (USA) and Samsung Electronics (Korea). The goal of that research was to create a model and method for design of Knowledge Management systems. Besides discussing problem area, research methodology, practical and theoretical contributions of that research, I will reflect on the rigor vs. relevance debate and answer how to satisfy both organisational and academic audience of our research efforts.

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