Strategic and technological aspects of institutional change: Engineering of a new mindset of information and knowledge management systems

Most institutional change of human resources have the objective of careers and collaborations development. It should be though accompanied by optimal information and knowledge management systems in order to allow a zero-trauma change to human resources because institutional change mean the integration of new organizational forms, new coordination mechanism and value chains. The objective of this paper is to investigate on this new mindset calling for the engineering and development of information and knowledge management systems that are focused on the enhancement of inter-organizational collaboration, networking and integrated-systems. The paper presents a research agenda for the identification of the strategic dynamisms of institutional change leading to the creation of the new mind set and its information and knowledge management systems that are leading to more freedom in knowledge sharing and access.