-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Final CfP: AMCIS 2010 - Knowledge Management in Information Systems Development minitrack Datum: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:18:31 +0200 Von: Meira Levy meirale@bezeqint.net An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Final Call for Papers 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010 ALL PAPERS ARE DUE: March 1, 2010 - midnight (EST)

Mini-Track: Knowledge Management in Information Systems Development

Co-Chairs: Irit Hadar, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, hadari@mis.haifa.ac.il Meira Levy, Department of Industrial Engineering& Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, lmeira@bgu.ac.il

Knowledge management (KM) has been recognized as an essential component of knowledge-intensive processes, such as information systems development. Current software development processes suffer all too often from inappropriate projects cost and duration estimations, cancelation and failures. The developed software product is frequently found fragile and unreliable; having security defects; not fully complying with the requirements; difficult to upgrade, and more. These problems occur because software products are complex, hard to understand, and vulnerable, as a single mistake can cause at times an entire system failure. Moreover, communication between developers and end-users is an essential and challenging issue. Often occurring miscommunications lead to inadequate requirements' understanding resulting in bad system design and implementation. Knowledge management can facilitate information systems development by enabling reuse of development experience, processes and products. Current KM systems enable to organize the accumulated experience for better storage and retrieval and open internal communication channels within the development teams and external communication channels between the organization and the end-users, throughout the development and integration process. Thus, KM has the potential to increase information systems development efficiency, producing better software products and increasing the organization's success, from both financial and end-users' satisfaction perspectives. This mini-track will focus on research that examines real settings where KM was embedded in information systems development processes, evaluating its role and influence on the process and its outcomes. Suggested topics:

- Tools and technologies for managing knowledge within IS development processes - Methodologies for embedding KM practices in IS development - Empirical evidence for implementing KM in IS development process - Key performance indicators (KPI's) for evaluating the influence of KM - Incentive programs for enhancing KM adoption - KM in world-wide distributed development teams - KM influence on end-users' satisfaction

Important dates: March 1, 2010 Deadline for paper submissions April 12, 2010 Notification of acceptance April 26, 2010 Final copy due

Instructions for authors: The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2010 website at http://www.amcis2010.org

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