The Wiki Way
Ward Cunningham was searching for a new way of collaboration while he was cooperating on the Design Patters book by the Gang of Four. He came up with a very
The Experience Factory
During the literature study of my Ph.D. thesis I came across an interesting concept, which I would like to briefly write about here. Even before the term knowledge management became
The KiWi Project
My PhD studies were held within a project, funded by the European Commission: The KiWi Project – Knowledge in a Wiki
Knowledge… what is that?
You can’t really be involved with knowledge management without asking: What is knowledge? Well, knowledge is probably one of the oldest concepts of mankind. Ancient philosophers already tried to define
KiWi Release Party
The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of our collaborative knowledge
Lass laufen!
Wie schon 2008 und 2009 mache ich heute wieder beim Blog Action Day mit. Diesmal geht’s ums Thema Wasser. Ich habe ein bisschen übers Wasser gegrübelt. Und eigentlich sehe ich
Engaged Scholarship
During the summer school and the conference I recently attended, the topic was engaged scholarship. Since Van de Ven published his book [1] in 2007, this topic has been broadly
EuroSPI 2010
Last week (September 1 – 3, 2010) I have been in Grenoble, France. That was the location for the 17th Conference of European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation
SCIS & IRIS 2010
The last few days (August 20 – 24, 2010) I spent participating the Scandinavian Conference of IS & IRIS Seminar in Rebild, a few kilometers outside Aalborg, Denmark. The time
Polanyi’s Tacit Dimension
Most of the research regarding knowledge management has some relation, be it directly or not, to Michael Polanyi’s book »The Tacit Dimension«[1], published in 1966. He was a polymath born
DaRSIS Summer School 2010
I spent the last week (May 2- 8, 2010) as one of 20 PhD students from Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden and Germany in a former
A Home-Story: The Ruhr-District
Some time ago I was born (and raised afterwards) in a town called Herten, in the northern part of what we call Ruhrpott, the Ruhr-District. In 2010 this, being the