-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2020 Mini-Track: Digital Agility and Emerging IT Strategies and Resources Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 21:47:13 +0000 From: Daniel Lee Daniel.Lee@umb.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
CFP AMCIS 2020 Mini-Track: Digital Agility and Emerging IT Strategies and Resources CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS 2020 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Mini-Track "Digital Agility and Emerging IT Strategies and Resources” August 12-16, 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah (https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/) ****************************************************************************
TRACK DESCRIPTION The rapid advancement of information technologies (IT) and the emerging trends of digital transformation have changed the way today’s businesses operate. These pressing needs have driven businesses to transform their business practices and strategies by adopting and implementing digital initiatives, such as Internet of things and data analytics, to enhance their organizational agility. As the variety of available information technologies for digital transformation grows, businesses face challenges of effectively leveraging these new technologies to sense and respond to market competition and changing demands by effectively creating, capturing, analyzing, and utilizing the data from them. This new challenge has continued to grow and evolve along with the current pervasive and inevitable trends of massive network connections and data generations through social networking services and Internet of things. However, the understanding of the impact of these IT trends is limited. This minitrack seeks studies that focus on the investigation of the impact of cutting-edge information technologies and corresponding organizational digital transformations for organizational agility. Some fundamental questions in this area include: • How should a business implement and utilize these new technologies and leverage the benefits? • How can new IT strategies and resources help transform a business into an agile organization? All studies including conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative research investigating new information technologies and organizational agility are welcome. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics for this minitrack include but are not limited to the following: • Digital transformation and organizational agility • Digital innovations and organizational agility • Data analytics capabilities and organizational agility • Big data technologies on organizational agility • Organizational data infrastructure for agility • Agile IT infrastructure and data analytics • Internet of Things and organizational agility • Cloud computing and organizational agility • Emerging data-driven technologies and organizational agility • Emerging IT management practices and organizational agility IMPORTANT DATES Jan. 6, 2020: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2020 begin Feb. 28, 2020: Deadline for AMCIS 2020 manuscript submissions Apr. 22, 2020: Deadline for camera-ready submissions
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/ MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS Peng Xu, University of Massachusetts Boston, Email: peng.xu@umb.edu One-Ki Daniel Lee, University of Massachusetts Boston, Email: daniel.lee@umb.edu Apologies for cross-posting! _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org