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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Submission Deadline: Sept 15, 2006

Knowledge Management Strategies:
A Handbook of Applied Technologies
A book edited by
Miltiadis D. Lytras, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute,
Greece
Meir Russ, University of Wiskonsin, USA
Roland Maier, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden

Introduction
Knowledge management has been used as a high-promise business concept. In
an era of business transition, the effective management of knowledge is
proposed as a strategy that exploits the organizational intangible assets.
However, the term of knowledge management has been used in order to
describe many different applications. In some cases the tag of 'knowledge
management product' is attached to several software programs purely for
marketing reasons.
We recognize knowledge management as a socio-technical phenomenon where
the basic social constructs such as person, team and organization require
support from ICT applications. The ultimate objective of the book is to
provide practical guidelines for applied knowledge management through the
discussion of specific technologies. For this reason each chapter
discusses a specific Knowledge Management Strategy which is facilitated
through the employment of technology. More over we discuss in detail
taxonomies of Knowledge Management Applications and we concentrate on the
practical aspect of implementations.
This guides and the structure of the book. In each chapter there is a
detailed discussion of a major Knowledge Management Strategy in relevance
with a key Knowledge Management technology: After a short theoretical
discussion of the specific strategy and technology we provide two to three
well known platforms which are the dominant products or best cases for
discussion. The third part of the chapter provides a case study which
permits and a learning exploitation of the material available in chapter.
Finally each chapter will provide a how to guide for the implementation of
the specific strategy accompanied with several links for drilling down
information.

In fact this book will give answers in problems that business
organizations face when they try to implement knowledge management. Mainly
two critical issues are addressed:
• Which technologies to use for specific KM problems?
• Which strategy can guide the implementation of KM that corresponds to
the answer of the above problem?

The Overall Objective of the Book

Our overall mission is to produce collaboratively "a value adding
publication which will promote the discipline (both theory and practice)
and will be valued in the relevant target audiences" as a reference
edition. This general mission inspires several objectives. The ultimate
objective of the book is to deliver a high quality practical-oriented book
that will help business units as well as organizations and institutions to
deploy knowledge management effectively.

We have a clear editing strategy.
• To go beyond the traditional discussion on verbalisms of Knowledge
Management
• To provide a reference book for the area with main emphasis to be paid
on practical aspects.
• To make a learning oriented edition, in other words the proposed book
can be seen as a practical guide for everybody interested in applying
Knowledge Management.

The Target Audience
In the Learning Industry five sub-segments are highlighted:

• Students enrolling in KM courses
• Special Interest Groups on KM: e.g. Associations, Public Bodies etc
• Adult Trainers
• Educational Policy Makers (with special interest in KM )

Respectively in the Business Market five more sub segments are
distinguished:

• Managers (interested in implementing KM)
• KM Specialists
• Knowledge Officers
• Human Resources Management officers
• Business Consultants
• IT managers

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

SECTION A: ARTIFACT LEVEL
Managing Documents
Managing Metadata and Semantics
Managing Taxonomies

SECTION B: INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
Constructing Yellow pages of experts
Managing individual profiles
Managing Tacit Knowledge

SECTION C: TEAM LEVEL
Managing Workflows
Managing Discussion Forums
Exploiting Collaborative Work Systems
Managing Team Dynamics

SECTION D: ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Building Best Practices
Developing Knowledge Maps / Ontologies
Managing Competencies
Managing Organizational Memory

SECTION E: INTER - ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Managing inter-organizational network
Managing Projects
Future Technologies

Appendixes:
Commercial Vendors of KM products
R&D funded projects in KM
Interviews of 2 Gurus of KM
Titles and descriptions of Team Assignments

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before Sept 15,
2006, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by October 1, 2006 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by December 31, 2006. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on
a double-blind review basis. Revised chapters according to specific
guidelines are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2007. The book is
scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com,
publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing,
IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras
Research Academic Computer Technology Insitute, Greece,
E-mail: lytras@ceid.upatras.gr

Meir Russ
University of Wiskonsin, GreenBay, USA
E-mail: russm@uwgb.edu

Roland Maier
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
E-mail: ronald.maier@wiwi.uni-halle.de

Ambjorn Naeve
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
E-mail: amb@nada.kth.se

DONT MISS IN THE SAME KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING SOCIETY SERIES
http://www.idea-group.com/requests/details.asp?ID=121

Titles Published/Scheduled/under Development:

1. Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge Intensive
Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective, Lytras and Naeve (eds)
http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4925

Finished and scheduled for publication in early 2007

2. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies beyond
Tools, Lytras and Naeve (eds)

3. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics,
Social Networking and New media to their full potential, Lytras and Naeve
(eds)

Scheduled for 2007:

4. Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices, Huang, Gasevic, Lytras
(eds)

5. Knowledge and Networks: A social software perspective, Downes, Lytras
(eds)

6. Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society, Cardoso, Lytras
(eds)

Book Proposals for this Series-Info for potential contributors Academics
and Practitioners interested in editing a book in this series are kindly
requested to contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras (lytras@ceid.upatras.gr) with
a cc: to Efstathia-Maria Pitsa, email: efstathia_p@yahoo.gr (Book Series
Assistant). All the proposals will be valued according the high standards
of IGP.