Knowledge Management for Creativity and Innovation

Mis à jour : 25-02-2008

The objective of this mini track is to explore the potential for Knowledge Management (KM) to enhance creativity and drive innovation. Creating and applying new knowledge are often cited as primary reasons organizations get involved in KM. Yet, to date the majority of research in KM and KMS focuses on knowledge reuse and transfer of best practices, rather than how knowledge is created and applied to derive business value, generate new ideas, and develop new products and solutions.

 

In recent workshops addressing KM, scholars and practitioners have identified the need for further research on: How knowledge is developed and transformed into business value? and How KM/KMS contribute to creativity and innovation both at the individual and organizational level?

 

This need is recognized also as the number one priority of leading organizations. The CEO's of General Electric and Proctor & Gamble for instance have made creativity and innovation predominate corporate priorities (Brady, 2005; Nussbaum, 2005). Responding to the emerging need for companies to develop innovation capabilities, Business Week has recently created a new online website - www.businessweek.com/innovate - to present the best research and thinking about the subject.

 

In line with this challenging research issue, this mini track will draw appropriate papers on the broadest range of research methodologies including case studies, action research, experimentation, survey, and simulation.

 

 

Minitrack Chairs :

Lynne P. Cooper (Primary Contact)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

4800 Oak Grove DriveMS 303-310Pasadena CA 91109, USA

Phone: +1-818-393-3080

Fax: +1-818-393-5143

Email: lynne.p.cooper@jpl.nasa.gov

 

Hind Benbya

GSCM Montpellier Business School

2300, Avenue des Moulins34185 Montpellier Cedex 4, France

Phone: +33-4-6710-2819

Fax: +33-4-6745-1356

Email: Benbya@gmail.com ; h.benbya@supco-montpellier.fr

 

R. Keith Sawyer

Department of Education

Washington University in St.  Louis

Campus Box 1183 , St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

Phone: +1-314-935-8724

Fax: +1-509-335-5339

Email: ksawyer@wustl.edu

 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to :

 

• Knowledge and action: how knowledge is developed, transformed, interpreted and used to make effective decisions and take action
• KM and New Product Development: how KM contributes to the generation, evaluation and implementation of new products, services, processes and solutions
• KM/KMS support for collaborative and creative work, e.g., design, research and development, exploration, customer support* Knowledge sharing, diffusion and creativity, as influenced by different organization cultures and structures
• Managing knowledge exploitation vs. exploration dilemmas
• Mechanisms associated with KM, creativity and innovation
• The use of KM to reduce risk in creative/innovative processes

 

Deadlines :

Abstracts are optional. Please do not hesitate to contact Minitrack Chairs or the primary contact at lynne.p.cooper@jpl.nasa.gov  for guidance and indication of appropriate content at any time.

 

• June 15, 2008: Authors submit full papers by this date, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June15 – August15).
• August 15th, 2008: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.
• September 15th, 2008:  Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper should register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.
• October 2nd, 2008: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.

 

MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

Knowledge Management Systems Track:

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/minitracks/km-kmc.htm

 

Conference webpage:

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/