Change and Innovation Management in IS/IT: A Simulation Approach

Why do so many IS/IT-related projects fail to deliver the level of tangible and sustainable performance improvements organizations target and expect? Why are the new mindsets and ways of operating enabled by IS/IT innovations so difficult to be integrated and adopted in organizations? Why do factors such as resistance to change, insufficient executive sponsoring, unrealistic expectations, or ineffective leadership still nullify the efforts put into the implementation of conceptually and technically sophisticated information and communication (including enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, collaboration, knowledge management and similar IS/IT-based) systems? These questions, which are relevant to both IS/IT research and practice, are at the core of a simulation-based experience aimed at deepening and extending our understanding of issues related to managing organisational change and transformation in the context of IS/IT implementation projects, providing at the same time a new approach to model, validate and diffuse efficiently (through a gamelike experience) knowledge in this relevant domain

Open Source Platforms Under Co-opetition: A Comparative Analysis of SourceForge and \u27CodeX\u27 (Xerox) as Two \u27Co-opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks\u27 (CoLKENs)

This paper investigates \u27Co-opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks\u27 (CoLKENs) deploying open source platforms. The balancing act between cooperation and competition which CoLKENs must execute when engaging in collaboration with eventual competitors is heightened within an open source environment. This requires the designing and implementing of specific management processes to enable economic value maximization for participating individuals and firms. The authors first describe the concept of CoLKENs, their components and their generic structure. Relevant dimensions to examine when investigating CoLKENs are then identified. Specific characteristics of open source CoLKENs are reviewed and two cases, SourceForge and CodeX (Xerox) are analyzed. Findings indicate varying motivations for participation, diverse methods of leadership and governance, several specifically tailored tools for managing collaboration and primarily hidden coordination and control mechanisms for dealing with competition. Finally, the authors identify the need for future research, especially in the area of evaluating and managing the element of competition

Enhancing Knowledge Management Systems with Cognitive Agents

After identifying the key challenges of knowledge management and proposing a vision that address them, this paper explores how cognitive agents can be used to design management systems that implement this vision and that in particular support the knowledge management processes in both their social, organizational and individual dimension

ID5.2 Roadmap for KRSM RTD

Roadmap for KRSM RTD activities.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

ICIS 2008 Panel Report: Design Science in Information Systems: Hegemony, Bandwagon, or New Wave?

In the past few years, design science has become a topic of increasing importance, especially in the North American academic IS community. Some observers see a new hegemony forming. Others dispute that but suggest that design science is merely the latest bandwagon rolling through the IS domain. A panel at the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems debated views of design science prevalent in the IS community. This paper reports on the panel discussion and attempts to position design science from various perspectives, including North American and European views, the latter with a long tradition of design-based IS scholarship

ICIS 2008 Panel Report: Design Science in Information Systems: Hegemony, Bandwagon, or New Wave?

In the past few years, design science has become a topic of increasing importance, especially in the North American academic IS community. Some observers see a new hegemony forming. Others dispute that but suggest that design science is merely the latest bandwagon rolling through the IS domain. A panel at the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems debated views of design science prevalent in the IS community. This paper reports on the panel discussion and attempts to position design science from various perspectives, including North American and European views, the latter with a long tradition of design-based IS scholarship