[AISWorld] Final CfP: AMCIS 2010 - Knowledge Management in Information Systems Development minitrack

[Meira Levy]

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 at mis.haifa.ac.il 
Meira Levy, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, lmeira at 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