SAT – Vertical (industry/area specific) Knowledge Management (KM)

Every industry has some unique and idiosyncratic aspects, which translates to industry specific Knowledge Management issues. This may result from external forces or influences, like regulation, or internal characteristics, like a short half-life of medical knowledge. The focus here will be on recognizing the influence of the external and internal environments and constrains on the industry’s knowledge as well as on the KM aspects responding or driving those concerns.

Some examples will be:

• Healthcare knowledge
• Agricultural knowledge
• Nuclear industry knowledge
• Banking knowledge
• e-learning (educational knowledge)
• etc.

Ray Hackney - Committee Chair

Professor Ray Hackney is Chair in Business Systems within the Business School at Brunel University, UK. He has contributed extensively to research in the field with publications in numerous national and international conferences and journals. He has taught and examined on a number of Doctoral and MBA programmes including Manchester Business School and the Open University. He led the organising committee for the annual BIT and BITWorld Conference series and is a member of the Strategic Management Society and Association of Information Systems. Professor Hackney has served on the Board of the UK Academy for Information Systems since 1997 and was also the Vice President Research for IRMA (USA). He is currently Associate Editor of the JGIM, JEUC, JLIM, ACITM, EJIS and case editor for IJIM. His research interests are the strategic management of information systems within a variety of organisational context, with an increasing speciality in government sectors and has he has contributed to a number of EPSRC and European funded research projects. Professor Hackney was President of the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) during 2001/2002 and is now an Executive Member of the Information Institute www.information-institute.org