-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 Final CFP: Enterprise Architecture & Organizational Success minitrack Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:33:44 -0500 From: Alberto Espinosa alberto@american.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
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 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