Knowledge Management for innovation, agility and
complexity management
The aims and objectives for implementing KM are many.
This conference mini-track focuses on the contribution that
KM makes to supporting organizational innovation, agility
and complexity management As the global economic environment
continues to challenge,
a fundamental transformation of KM has been taking place in
two directions: (1) exploring how the inflows and outflows
of knowledge have expanded to accelerate internal innovation
and expand the markets for external use of innovation, and
(2) how KM is used
to support organizational agility and sustain business
agility. Both these themes support alternative approach to
organizing for innovation and organizational agility in an
open environment with multiple participants and
stakeholders. These themes are open
to the exploration of the effectiveness of new methods and
organizational structures for improving innovation and
organizational agility by engaging a broader base of outside
knowledge holders and raise important new issues about how
knowledge is created and
applied to derive business value, generate new ideas, and
develop new products and solutions.
In line with this challenging research issue, the
objective of this mini track is to draw appropriate papers
on the broadest range of research methodologies including
case studies, action research, experimentation, survey, and
simulation.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge, complexity and innovation
- KM and open innovation models
- KM to support organizational agility
- Implementation issues in using KM to support innovation
- The role of KM in complexity management
- KM to support organizational effectiveness
- Innovation in the face of uncertainty
- Managing innovation in a global environment
- The role of knowledge in business agility developing and
innovating in products and services.
- Knowledge for organizational adaptation to market and
environmental change.
- Knowledge co-creation in communities, markets and open
platforms.
- Tools and techniques for managing innovation
- Social media as a KM tool for stimulating and/or
supporting innovation
- How KM contributes to the generation, evaluation and
implementation of new products, services, processes and
solutions
- KM/KMS support for collaborative and creative work
- Knowledge sharing, diffusion and creativity: the
influence of organizational culture and structure
- Managing knowledge exploitation vs. exploration dilemmas
- The use of KM to reduce risk in creative/innovative
processes
- The impact of knowledge silos in complex systems
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