Innovative Knowledge Management: Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design

• #1. Universities as Knowledge-Intensive Learning Organizations
• #2. Key Characteristics Relevant for Selecting Knowledge Management Software Tools
• #3. Knowledge-Based Diffusion in Practice: A Case Study Experience
• #4. Deploying Knowledge Management in R&D Workspaces
• #5. Innovation in New Technology and Knowledge Management: Comparative Case Studies of its Evolution during a Quarter Century of Change
• #6. A Survey of Epistemology and its Implications on an Organisational Information and Knowledge Management Model
• #7. An Ontology-Based Expert System for Financial Statements Analysis
• #8. Knowledge Democracy as the New Mantra in Product Innovation: A Framework of Processes and Competencies
• #9. Knowledge Management under Institutional Pressures: The Case of the Smartcard in France
• #10. Does Knowledge Management Really Work?: A Case Study in the Breast Cancer Screening Domain
• #11. Knowledge Management: The Key to Delivering Superior Healthcare Solutions
• #12. The Use of ‘Web 2.0’ and Social Software in Support of Professional Learning Communities
• #13. Knowledge Sharing in the Learning Proces: Experience with Problem-Based Learning
• #14. Culturally-Bound Innovation in Romanian Teaching and Research Hospitals
• #15. Exploiting KM in Support of Innovation and Change
• #16. Knowledge Management Profile: An Innovative Approach to Map Knowledge Management Practice
• #17. Recognizing Innovation through Social Network Analysis: The Case of the Virtual eBMS Project
• #18. Complexity and Clarity: The Knowledge Strategy Dilemma – Some Help from MaKE
• #19. Knowledge Management and Innovation
• #20. Holonic Management: Innovation Creative Entrepreneurship

Alan Eardley is the Director of the MRes Scheme in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology at Staffordshire University, as well as being Associate Head of Postgraduate Research Studies. He has considerable commercial experience in management and systems analysis in a variety of industries, and has worked as an academic for over twenty four years in schools of business and computing. He has participated in a number of industrial collaborations and consultancy projects and has co-authored five text books on IS and the use of IT in business. Eardley has a first class honours degree in Business, a Masters degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Strategic Information Systems. His current research into knowledge management, research methods and strategic planning in business and healthcare applications has resulted in a number of publications in international journals and conferences.

Lorna Uden is Professor of IT systems at the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology in Staffordshire University. Her research interests include Technology Learning, HCI, Activity Theory, Knowledge management, Web Engineering, Multimedia, E-business, Service science, semantic web, and Problem-Based Learning. Professor Uden is program committee member for many international conferences and workshops. She is on the editorial board of several international journals. Professor Uden is also visiting professor to universities in Australia, China, Finland, Italy, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. She has been keynote speaker at several international conferences. On the international front, she collaborates widely with colleagues worldwide.