Editor’s Introduction for the March 2022 Issue

I would like to begin by letting you know this is the last issue for which I will serve as the Co-Editor. I have really enjoyed serving as a Co-Editor during the last 4 years. I would like to thank Dr. Heather Nachtmann and Dr. Brian Smith, they made my service as a Co-Editor a wonderful experience. I would also like to thank Jennifer Farris who has served as our managing editor during that time. She has done an outstanding job facilitating the intake of papers for the journal. Finally, I would like to thank our dedicated team of Associate Editors and reviewers. The journal would not exist without you. You all have made my time as a Co-Editor a joy. Our society and profession owe you all a great debt of gratitude for your hard work, dedicated service, and the professionalism with which you have managed the paper review process for the journal. We continue to publish rigorous academic research and value adding practitioner papers that contribute to the engineering management profession. The journal is in a very good place thanks to all of you, submissions are up, our impact factor has increased steadily, and our accepted paper queue has steadily grown. I wish all of you well in the future. As a result of our growing accepted paper queue, this issue contains 10 articles. Several of which explore approaches to knowledge management, risk management and mitigation, six sigma and quality, and economic analysis. We would like to thank all of our reviewers who contributed to the peer-review process for these papers as well as Associate Editors Sols, Scala, Philbin, Landaeta, Pinheiro de Lima, Bastian, Martinez Leon and Furterer for their contributions to this issue. Our issue begins with a paper entitled “Exploring Configurations of Knowledge Management Strategy in the Information and Communication Technology Firms: A Qualitative Comparative Approach”. This work examines and identifies knowledge management strategies. The author surveyed 440 firms of which they received 87 useful cases to motivate their findings. The author conducts a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis to identify multiple case configurations. The study helps reconcile disagreement in the literature between balanced versus dominant-contingent views of knowledge strategies. In “Application of Risk Management for Discrete Event Simulation Projects in Healthcare Systems,” the authors investigate how to use project risk management to reduce the occurrence of failure for Discrete Event Simulation models in healthcare. The work investigates both managerial and technical risks. This work provides engineering managers insights on how to implement and manage risk management techniques of discrete event simulation projects in healthcare settings. In our third article, “Selection of Emerging Technologies: A Case Study in Technology Strategies of Intelligent Vehicles,” Zhao, Kuang, Hao, and Liu, explore how to formulate corporate technology strategies. The authors provide strategic approaches to engineering managers for selecting appropriate technology solutions. The authors utilize a case study on intelligent vehicles to identify the gap between the existing literature and practice. Engineering managers from a variety of sectors can utilize this framework developed by the authors to assist them manage technology trends within in their organizations. The fourth article “Knowledge Management, Absorptive and Dynamic Capacities and Project Success: A Review and Framework” we present a work investigating the role knowledge management plays in project success, particularly project management efficiency and business success. Up next a team of researchers from Chile present a novel method for generating performance indicators in manufacturing enterprises via the Analytic Network Process with the resulting model based on a Balanced Scorecard framework. The use of handheld data acquisition and display devices is becoming commonplace across the retail and transportation industries. In “Handheld Technology Selection, Evaluation, and Risk Mitigation using Stochastic Analytical Hierarchical Process: A Standardization of the Request for Proposal Process”, a team from Mississippi State University put forth a method for soliciting and evaluating proposed handheld solutions. The seventh article “Enhancing Six Sigma Understanding: Insights into Various Dimensions and Aspects of Six Sigma” provides a fresh look at the perceptions of Six Sigma within different industries. Our eighth article “Economic Analysis of a Massively Populated Internet of Things System: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach” provides a novel solution for maintaining the integrity, quality-wise, of a food supply chain using a complex Internet of Things monitoring system that shows good economic return. The ninth article “Managing Quality in Aviation Projects” reveals the importance of adopting quality management principles into aviation project management. In our last article, “The Complexity Register: A Collaborative Tool for System Complexity Evaluation,” a team from the UK provides a new tool for evaluating the level of complexity in systems that takes the different perspectives of project stakeholders into account. EMJ invites participation and articles from both industry and academia. We welcome all types of research methodologies that are applicable to the current engineering management domain. For questions or inquiries, please contact us at smith@ise.msstate.edu and epohl@uark.edu.