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Research interestsI hold a position as an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied IT at the IT University in Göteborg, Sweden (see my page at academia.edu). I received my doctoral degree in Informatics in March 2002 with my thesis Designing the new intranet, which addresses organisational intranets from a Knowledge Management perspective. My research as a PhD student was a joint venture between Volvo IT, the Viktoria Institute, a Swedish Research Institute focusing on IT, and the Department of Informatics at Göteborg University. My research interest has shifted slightly over time but it has always had the intranet as the technology platform around which my work has circled. Service innovation and Sense and Respond organisingCurrently, I am working with Banverket (Swedish Rail Administration) in a
three-year project called "Design of innovative customer-oriented IT-based
services". The rapid development of sensor technology that has resulted in
the technology becoming cheaper and more powerful, has generated a growing
interest in and an increased use amongst many of the railway industry actors.
Today's problem is that much of the data that sensor technology generates is
piled up in isolated subsystems where it risks becoming a liability rather than
an asset. To be able to exploit the large potential that sensor technology
implies, two requirements need to be satisfied: The above project intend to study the railway industry as a whole and from a
decentralised information ownership examine how to create IT-based services,
which, by combining information objects from several different actors, give
each actor more in return than what they gave out. The project's aim is thus to
design the railway industry's future customer-oriented IT-services, and to
develop/complement the existing information infrastructure to be able to
accommodate these services. This will be implemented through two partly
parallel activities: Knowledge management (KM), Information seeking and intranetsI did most of my dissertation work within the VINNOVA-sponsored Knowledge Management programme. This was in the late 90s/early 2000. During 2004 and 2005 I taught Knowledge Management to Master students in the Business Technology programme at the IT University. I was also the coordinator for these students' Master Thesis course and supervised many of them. I have continued yo publish papers om various aspects of IT-supported KM and I am still a member of the Editorial Review Board for the International Journal of Knowledge Management, although I do not actively do any KM research these days. More recently, I worked in a project sponsored by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) entitled "Individualisation and cotextualisation of unstructured information: strategies and techniques for decreasing information overload". In this work, I set up a sub-project called BiSON - Business-related information-seeking in organisations. This project, which closed in December 2007, focused on how ordinary employees found the information they needed to carry out their work and how this could be better supported by IT. Most notably, we analysed intranet search engine log files to understand usage. On the administrative side I acted Programme Manager for the Business
Technology Master programme between 2004 and 2007. I am now working part time
with the PhD training in the Graduate School in Information Technology Studies,
with a responsibility for the Higher Seminars and the Industrial PhD programme.
I also supervise three PhD students: Other time-thiefsAs most scholars I also serve on various committees. Below is a list of some of my recent engagements
I also try to maintain a list of conferences that are
of interest to me and my research. It contains all the call-for-paper
deadlines, word limits and stuff. |
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