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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@mailbox.sc.edu
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