ECKM 2013 - 14th European Conference on Knowledge Management

The world economy in which we are living poses challenges that lead to a realization that 'more of the same' will be difficult to sustain. This provides an illustration that, in order to create new or modified knowledge practices, strengthen customer relationships and thus positively influence customer satisfaction, organizations must be flexible in configuring (combining) knowledge and knowledge structures in a way that is appropriate for delivering value to the customer. It must simultaneously develop effective strategies for updating the knowledge of its staff members necessary for underpinning the creation and delivery of appropriate knowledge services. Thus, unlearning (forgetting) becomes a critical means for organizational success. The ECKM community of scholars has already initiated dialogue that links its particular strengths to innovation issues. This conference aims to further that dialogue by attracting leading edge work that leverages the ECKM community's in-depth understanding of learning and unlearning to better understand knowledge management. Our aim is to stimulate breakthrough research streams linking learning, unlearning and knowledge management.
How can organizations tailor, use, and extend techniques and tools from knowledge management for improving their business practices and processes? Building upon existing work on knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning, the conference will promote interdisciplinary approaches from computer science and information systems, business, management and organization science as well as cognitive science. Emphasis will be put on systematic learning from experience, KM tools and KM success factors. A special interest belongs to knowledge management initiatives which are lightweight (i.e., do not place considerable additional burden on users and KM experts), allow an incremental adoption (i.e., do not require large up-front investment before any return of investment is at least visible), and are flexible regarding frequent changes in experts and topics.
Continuing the success of the ECKM conference series since 2000, the 2012 conference will provide an international communication forum bringing together academia and industry for discussing the progress made and addressing the challenges faced by continuous learning in knowledge-intensive organizations.
The conference committee is attracted by both theoretical and practical papers on many subjects, as well as by innovative ideas and experiences. We are also interested in case studies that demonstrate how KM research strategies have been applied and the lessons learned. The review committee will consider submissions in the following categories:
Academic papers
Case Studies
PhD papers
Work-in-Progress papers
Posters
Non-Academic contributions
Round Table discussion Proposals
You can find full details in the submission types document (.pdf format).
In addition to the main conference topics, the advisory group invite suggestions for mini tracks. If you would be interested in preparing and chairing a mini track, please contact the Conference Director, Sue Nugus.
Submission details are given below. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
§ KM Frameworks
§ Knowledge creation
§ Knowledge asset valuation models
§ Knowledge Management Systems
§ Architectures for KM systems
§ KM case studies and best practices
§ KM in SME’s
§ Evaluation and performance of KM
§ KM in the Public Sector
§ Skills and competence management
§ Change management, KM in business transformation
§ KM strategies
§ KM success stories and failures
§ Tacit knowledge capture and dissemination
§ Light-weight knowledge management approaches
§ Measurement and evaluation of KM effectiveness
§ KM and organisational learning
§ Knowledge sharing
§ Communities of Practice
§ Identifying KM user requirements
§ KM and innovation
§ Content management systems
§ Ontologies and knowledge representation
§ Managing Intellectual Capital
§ KM and Web 2.0
§ KM maturity models
§ KM Success factors
§ Benchmarking of knowledge management activities
§ Intuition and the knowledge economy
§ KM and decision making
§ Enterprise 2.0 and KM