[Asis-l] Looking for KM participants in exploratory research study

[Kathleen Terry]

> I am a doctorate candidate seeking 1 more interview and 8 more surveys
> to complete the data collection process of my dissertation requirements.
>
> Below is an abstract of the study,
> Please email me to terryguy at Nova.edu if you can participate. My
> deadline is the end if Sept 2007.
>
> Also, interested in the latest KM tools and / or applications that
> large corporations are installing now, what is the hotest out
> there...etc.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Kathleen Terry Guy
> Doctorate candidate
> Business Consultant
>
> THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE HISTORIAN IN THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
> ENVIRONMENT: WHAT MAKES IT WORK?
> by
> Kathleen Y. Terry Guy
> The researcher investigated critical concepts in exactly what a
> historian is and how historians, specifically knowledge historians, in
> a modern organization, play similar roles. The researcher investigated
> the characteristics, abilities, skills, and traits of the knowledge
> historian within organizations that use knowledge-management systems.
> The knowledge historian is part of an organization or part of a
> community of practice. They are part of the knowledge and knowledge of
> process, the ability to make knowledge-capturing work toward a
> knowledge-management system within a knowledge-management environment.
> The researcher conducted a qualitative analytical study to identify,
> verify, and then validate a set of characteristics. A pilot-study
> interview was conducted and an interview instrument questionnaire
> designed/developed from the pilot-study interview. Interviews were
> analyzed and recorded. The researcher abstracted the text from the
> interviews to perform the analysis.
> This study reviewed a theory or set of theories. Through theory
> identification the researcher proposed how different characteristics
> of the knowledge historian influence different factors within the
> knowledge-management and information-systems
> environments. The researcher identified how the characteristics were
> used in an organization by internal and external clients, this in turn
> effectively leading to success of
> the knowledge-management system and organization. Through this
> analysis the researcher answered this key question: Why are the
> characteristics of the knowledge historian important for the success
> of an organization?
> The researcher proposed hypotheses for future testing within this
> exploratory study of research. At the conclusion of this study the
> researcher proposed a reasonable theory or theories with relevant
> models to explain how the role of the knowledge historian leads to
> knowledge-management system success. The researcher was then in a
> position to propose testable hypotheses.
> Therefore, through this study, the researcher proposed theoretical
> constructs for future theory building. The researcher assigned
> specific constructs from knowledge-historian characteristics. The
> researcher then correlated these specific constructs by mapping them
> to theories in information systems and knowledge management and their
> systems, and the management environment.