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AMCIS 2012 - Call for Papers
Mini-Track: Enterprise Architecture
& Organizational Success
Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the
process of developing an enterprise Information Technology
architecture
– both its description and its implementation. An EA description
focuses
on a holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses
IT systems
and how and what they are used for within an organization. An
enterprise
architect (and his/her team) develops the strategy and enables the
decisions
for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the
business
operations as well as to assess, select, and integrate the
technology into
the organization’s infrastructure. Alignment between business and
IT has
remained one of the top three issues for CIOs and IS managers for
several
years as reported by CIO magazine.
An EA implementation focuses on
remediating,
renovating, or replacing IT systems in compliance with the EA
description
to achieve the proposed benefits. EA is central to the execution
of business strategies. Organizations vary in their degree of EA
maturity.
While the research literature has devoted substantial attention to
the
development of effective EA frameworks and the alignment of
business and
IT, there is very little empirical evidence about the
organizational benefits
of EA. For example, we know very little about which processes,
approaches
or coordination practices lead to an effective architecting effort
or whether
this effort leads to measurable organizational benefits.
Consequently, we are soliciting
paper
submissions that: advance our knowledge of EA; help us learn about
effective
processes and approaches to effectively manage the EA; and begin
to identify
ways to measure the organizational benefits derived from EA.
Papers will
be solicited in several areas, including, but not limited to the
following:
• Architecting Processes,
Methodologies
and Practices
• Architectural Frameworks and
Theory
• Business Process Architecture
• Tools and Techniques Supporting
Architecting
• Service-Oriented Architectures
(including
Web Services)
• System versus Software
Architectures
• Addressing EA Challenges
• Integration of EA with IT
Governance
and SOA
• Surveys and Case Studies
• EA and Organizational Success
Important dates:
March 1st. 2012
Deadline for paper submissions
April 6, 2012 Notification
of acceptance
April 25, 2012
Final copy due
Instructions for authors:
The entire paper should be no more
than
5,000 words, including all materials and sections such as figures,
tables,
and references. All conference submissions will be double-blind,
peer reviewed,
and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010.
For complete instructions for authors and information about the
conference,
visit the AMCIS 2010 website at http://www.amcis2010.org
Mini-Track Co-Chairs
Frank Armour, Kogod School of
Business,
American University, farmour@american.edu
J. Alberto Espinosa, Kogod School
of
Business, American University, alberto@american.edu
Stephen Kaisler, SHK and
Associates,
skaisler1@comcast.net
William DeLone, Kogod School of
Business,
American University, wdelone@american.edu
Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland
University,
Germany, loos@iwi.uni-sb.de