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Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS Mini-Track CFP - SIGOSRA Socio-technical
Approaches to Digital Transformation
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:05:36 +0000
From: Regan, Elizabeth <EAREGAN(a)mailbox.sc.edu>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
Mini-track Call for Papers
SIGOSRA: Socio-technical Approaches to Digital Transformation
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have been
advocating for a shift in funding priorities to focus on
transdisciplinary, team-based, convergent research with high societal
impact. Many areas of societal need have been tackled for decades by
single disciplines or domains and yet remain challenging problems.
Moreover, the average lag time for translating lab research into
practice is 15-20 years. Thus, it has become increasingly apparent that
many of the complex technical and societal problems the world faces are
not well-served by the traditional model of individual university
research groups headed by a single principal investigator. Instead, they
can only be solved if researchers from multiple institutions and with
diverse expertise combine their efforts. Many of these problems are
systemic in nature and fall at the intersection, of engineering,
technology, organizational development, and digital transformation.
Another key theme is that collaborative R&D
is not a quick fix, leading to increased interest in center-based
research, design science, and action research.
One rapidly expanding transdisciplinary research area, for example, is
healthcare delivery. The National Academies highlight the "critical role
information/communications technologies, engineering and related
organizational innovations must play in addressing the interrelated
quality and productivity crisis facing the healthcare delivery system."
We seek contributions that help us better understand how researchers are
addressing these challenges as well as practice-oriented knowledge and
design artifacts for dealing with or leveraging digital transformation.
How might this shift be transforming research methodologies and
increasing societal impact of academic research? We invite contributions
from various disciplines and different application areas such as
healthcare delivery, business, and smart communities. To what extent,
and how, might this shift be transforming research methodologies and
increasing societal impact of academic research? We invite contributions
from various disciplines including information systems and technology,
systems engineering, organization science, computer science as well as
interdisciplinary research that connects the aforementioned areas. We
encourage papers applying a wide variety of methodologies, including
quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research such as
case studies, action research, surveys, experiments, conceptual
articles, and design science. These are but a few questions that are
relevant for this mini track.
Topics of interest may include:
* Collaborative Design Science approaches to digital transformation
* Assessing societal impact
* Building trans-disciplinary, convergent teamwork
* Co-creation of IT-based solutions at the frontlines
* Academic / Industry collaboration in digital transformation
* Case studies in collaborative digital transformation
* Center-based research approaches for digital transformation
* Building stakeholder buy-in to digital transformation
* Integrating technology solutions for digital transformation (data
analytics, AI, machine learning, decision support, for example)
* Information sharing for integrating solutions and breaking down silos
(this is especially relevant in healthcare delivery system
transformation or supply chain management, for example)
* Overcoming competing interests to focus on the broader opportunities
of digital transformation
For questions, you may contact Dr. Elizabeth A. Regan earegan(a)mailbox.sc.edu
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