Call for Participants: Crossing the Chasm – Moving IC into the Business Mainstream, Hong Kong, November, 2010

I have been invited to lead a mini-track on moving IC into the business mainstream at the ICICKM 2010 in Hong Kong.  This is the 7th annual International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning and will be held on the 11th and 12th of November in Hong Kong.

There are a lot of good reasons to go: meet IC/KM professionals from all over the world, get a closer look at the very ambitious work being done in IC in China and, of course, participate in this conversation about mainstream adoption.

The track that I am organizing Crossing the Chasm: Moving IC into the Business Mainstream is going to focus on:

The move toward a global knowledge economy continues to accelerate. Yet, today, the average businessperson has only a vague understanding of IC, one of the key fields concerned with the business implications of this knowledge economy. Even those who have tried to apply the concepts struggle to make the connection between intangibles and their financial bottom line.

Although the field of IC continues to grow and develop, almost everyone in our community would agree that we labor in obscurity. This track seeks to explore how the IC community can move our field into the business mainstream. Case studies of successful IC projects are especially welcome.

Research issues as follows are of special interest:

• What are the barriers to mainstream adoption of IC concepts?
• What will it take to move IC concepts into the mainstream?
• What are the core concepts upon which mainstream adoption should be built?
• What are the benefits a businessperson can expect from an IC project?
• What is working in current IC practice?
• In this effort, are there lessons the IC world learn from the developments in web and enterprise 2.0?
• What is the right balance between top-down and bottom-up solutions to IC?
• What is the role of the “expert” in adoption of IC concepts in the mainstream?

Although this is an academic conference, you don’t need to write an academic paper:

The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods. Case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited.

I would love to have lots of case studies, work-in-progress posters and practitioner contributions. Here’s the call for contributions download.

Have an idea? Not sure how to get started? Please give me a call at 781-729-9650 or email me to talk it through.

I hope you will come and participate in our conversation and this great conference!