Organizational Memory (OM) and Organizational Memory Systems (OMS) began to appear as topics in IS literature in the early 1990s. While these topics have received some attention from researchers, OMS is clearly not considered a standard topic in the IS curriculum. There are no textbooks on OMS let alone chapters in textbooks. At best the concept of OM crops up in reference to databases, data warehouses, group systems and knowledge management. The focus on this session is on an analysis of whether OMS is more than just a fad or buzzword. Questions to be addressed include: Can we identify particular systems as OMS and if so are there guidelines and methodologies for building them? Where do OMS fit in a classification of IS systems? Are Knowledge Management Systems (KMS), which have received a great deal of trade press references and have been implemented in organizations, just the corporate title for OMS?
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Author: Lorne Olfman
Email: Lorne.Olfman@cgu.edu Home Page: http://fac.cgu.edu/~olfmanl/ |