| Peter Baloh is a research assistant and a doctoral candidate at Information Management department of Faculty of Economics Ljubljana University, Slovenia, the only EQUIS accredited school in South-Eastern Europe. He has spent 18 months pursuing his MPhil degree at 6* RAE IRIS-Informatics Research Institute at University of Salford, leading UK research institution, where his thesis has been submitted in March 2007. His primary research focus lies in the areas of Information Systems, Technological Innovation and Knowledge Management, which are considered through the lens of successful implementation in various organizational settings.
He has authored over 40 articles, which were presented at international conferences, featured and/or published in practitioner and academic journals, such as MIT Sloan Management Review, IEEE Software, Manager, and are forthcoming in Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Research-Technology Management, and Knowledge and Process Management, among others. He serves on the editorial review board of International Journal of Knowledge Management and has served as a co-guest editor of the 2007 Journal of Organizational and End User Computing’ special issue on Knowledge Management Systems. Furthermore, he has co-chaired the ‘KM track’ at 6th ISOneWorld conference in April 2007 and is co-chairing ‘KM Implementations and issues’ track at 41st HICSS conference in January 2008. He has co-authored twelve books and textbooks, the most recent being: With practical examples through MS Office (2001, 2nd ed 2002), Solving business problems with help of information technology tools (2005, reprint 2006), With practical examples through MS Office 2007 (June 2007). All of the three use a novel business-problem-based experiential learning approach to educating business professionals in Slovene higher education institutions and industrial clients for using contemporary IT in a more successful manner.
In addition, he has founded and has managed small Slovenian venture Ujemi znanje, advising companies in how to adopt new ways of working when achieving and securing their competitive advantages. After receiving BA in Business Administration and BSc in Information Management he worked for a year at Deloitte & Touche Ljubljana (IS and operations auditing and consulting), and returned back to the Faculty of Economics Ljubljana to pursue postgraduate studies. In 2003, he received his MSc (distinction) in Information management. He has traveled the world and loved it. |