CALL FOR PAPERS
* BITWorld 2015 *
*** 17th International Conference on
Business Information Technology ***
May 19-21, 2015, LAS VEGAS, USA
Papers submission deadline: February
15, 2015
Background
The year was 1997 and a bunch of
colleagues had gotten together in the CSA Bar at
Cranfield University, UK. The game of darts was in
full swing. An idea popped – how interesting would
it be to organize a Business Information Technology
conference at a location where traditionally such
conferences never venture to be. Very quickly New
Delhi as a location was suggested. An email was sent
to Professor Gordon Davis at the University of
Minnesota to be the inaugural keynote speaker. And
without much ado, we had an event at our hands.
Professor Rekha Jain of Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad became the local organizing
chair.
In years to come the conference grew
from strength to strength and events were organized in
South Africa, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico among other
places. For the past few years though, BITWorld was
co-hosted with CITED in Nigeria, CoDE in Thailand and
China and CISTM in India. The next event is being
decoupled from the co-hosts and will take place in Las
Vegas, Nevada on May 19-21, 2015. We look
forward to carrying forward a rich tradition of
BITWorld events in 2015 and beyond. BITWorld includes
a full program of papers, presentations, keynotes and
publishing events, and aspires to bring together
academics, researchers and practitioners from all over
the world to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas on
the latest developments and challenges in Information
Technology.
Scope and Aims
The conference aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners interested in studying
and discussing a range of leadership challenges as
these might relate to their particular businesses and
industry. Such dialogue will facilitate the
development of agendas for further research and
development. We invite you to consider submitting your
research papers, workshop or tutorial proposals for
consideration. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Big Data and analytics
- Leading technical teams through
organizational change
- Key issues in managing IT related
change
- IT Leadership development theories
and practices
- Developing and sustaining IT
competencies
- Identifying future IT leaders
- Challenges in aligning IT and
business
- Gaining strategic advantages from IT
- Strategic planning for IT
- Governance practices in IT
- Applications of Systems Theory to
business ITÂ
- Managing the IT function for business value
- The influence of politics and
culture on IT decisions
Submission Details:Â
Participation can be in the following
categories (but not limited to):
Industry
Participants:Â If you have an interesting
story to share we welcome your participation. We can
guarantee an engaging participation from the floor,
where you can discuss and talk freely about what you
have been thinking. We just require a title of your
presentation, a few lines describing your topic area
and a brief biographical note (about 100 words).
Academic
Participants:Â We encourage you to submit an
abstract, a full paper, a research note, or a case
study. Submission details are available at:Â http://www.bit-world.us
Submission deadline:Â February 15,
2015
Notification of acceptance: March 1,
2015
Program Committee
Conference Chairs
Spyridon Samonas, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Rahul Singh, PhD
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, USA
Program Chair
Helena Lindskog, PhD
Linkoping University, Sweden