>Hi. My name is Alicia Anderson and I work for the MITRE
>I'm currently working to define the content for a special issue
>of a "well-known technical journal" on Intelligent Information
>Systems. The readership of the journal is mainly engineers and
>computer scientists - most of whom are not familiar with the
>ideas of learning organizations - much less why they should
>care about them one way or the other. I would like to structure
>the issue to make some connections between technology areas
>(eg, data mining, virtual reality) and
>management/organizational issues (eg, learning orgs)
Alicia, I would suggest topic you could cover would be the introduction of
groupware technology into the workplace. In particular, there are now
thousands of Lotus Notes pilot projects in organizations around the globe
where the use of groupware by inter-departmental teams is changing
organizational culture. There is very little academic research about the
use of groupware technology and the effect it will have on management,
information flows, hierarchies, and building shared vision; but the
evidence is mounting within the companies that have adopted Lotus Notes.
Mason Tengalia and Doug Ferguson are both experienced practitioners in
launching groupware in organizations. You can reach them via email at
mason_tenaglia@plantech.com or doug_ferguson@plantech.com. Or by phone at
617-861-0999. Good luck on your article!
-- Michael Shayne Gary London Business School 44-171-262-5050 ext 3496