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Chair of Economics and Information Systems
Field project: The use of Web 2.0
as a knowledge management tool
Between April and July 2009, a group of five
Diploma students from the class K23 under
the supervision of the Chair of Economics
and Information Systems conducted a field
project for SV SparkassenVersicherung AG,
the third largest public insurance company in
Germany and a market leader in the field of
house insurance in Germany.
For a company of this size running a variety
of projects at the same time, the issue of
knowledge management is one of the key
factors in successful process management
and efficient workload.
In this context, the main task for the HHL
team was to investigate the use of Web 2.0
as a knowledge management tool and to formulate
exact proposals for implementing it,
taking into account the specific demands
and needs of SV SparkassenVersicherung.
First, the students conducted a detailed evaluation
of knowledge management systems
currently available on the market. In a second
step, the team applied the “as-is analysis”
Talks at conferences
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Optimal decentralization of
multi-agent decisions”
Conference on Economic Design
Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Projective Expected
Utility – A Subjective Formulation”
Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and
Knowledge (TARK) Conference
Stanford University, USA, July 6-8, 2009
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Group Bargaining with Incomplete
Information”
Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice
(LGS 6) Conference
University of Tsukuba, Japan, August 26-29, 2009
method to become acquainted with special
characteristics of the company and to evaluate
the current status of knowledge management
at SV SparkassenVersicherung. In addition
to this, an online survey and personal
interviews with employees were carried out
by the team to identify gaps in the existing
knowledge management process. Combining
the results from the first two stages of
their work, the student team was then able to
filter out, from a vast offering of products on
the market, three knowledge management
software products which meet the needs of
the company and, furthermore, might improve
efficiency of project management processes.
In the final stage, using cost-benefit
analysis, the HHL team selected an optimal
software solution for SV SparkassenVersicherung.
It was a stimulating experience for
both the students and the project partner.
The project was in fact such a success that
the students were offered the chance to be
involved in a follow-up project in the area of
knowledge management for other departments
of SV SparkassenVersicherung.
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“The Certification Hypothesis of
Fairness Opinions”
XXVI Annual Conference: European
Association of Law and Economics
Rome, Italy, September 16-19, 2009
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Game Theory without Decision-Theoretic
Paradoxes”
1 st International Conference on
Algorithmic Decision Theory
Venice, Italy, October 21-23, 2009
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Game Theory without Decision-Theoretic
Paradoxes”
Theory Seminar of the Paris School of
Economics, Paris School of Economics
Paris, France, October 30, 2009
HHL News – wiNter 2009/2010
New staff
Alberto Chullen joined the Chair of Economics
and Information Systems in August 2009.
He is an alumnus of the class MSc2 at HHL,
where he obtained his Master of Science
degree majoring in Finance and Marketing
in July 2009. Before coming to HHL, he
graduated in Business Management and
Finance at the Universidad San Ignacio
(Peru), and spent a year at CBS (Denmark).
In 2008, Chullen also spent a term at the
Grenoble Graduate School of Business
(France). His future research will be focused
on Quantum Decision Theory and
Cooperative Game Theory.
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
“Non-Dictatorial Social Choice through
Delegation”
Research Seminar for the doctoral program
“The Economics of Innovative Change”
(organised by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and
International Max-Planck Research School on Adapting
Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World)
Jena, Germany, November 18, 2009
Participation in conferences
Professor Pierfrancesco La Mura, Ph.D.
Workshop on Informatic Phenomena
Tulane University,
New Orleans, USA, October 5-9, 2009