| Betreff: | [AISWorld] CFP AMCIS 2017 Mini-Track: Emerging Technology and Organizational Agility (Deadline: Mar. 1, 2017) |
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| Datum: | Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:09:05 +0000 |
| Von: | Daniel Lee <Daniel.Lee@umb.edu> |
| An: | aisworld@lists.aisnet.org <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org> |
CALL FOR PAPERS AMCIS 2017 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Mini-Track "Emerging Technology and Organizational Agility” August 10-12, 2017, Boston, MA (https://amcis2017.aisnet.org) **************************************************************************** TRACK DESCRIPTION The rapid advancement of information technologies has changed the way businesses operate. Organizations need to compete through various innovations. The pressing need has driven businesses to adopt new technologies such as clouding computing, business intelligence, and big data to enhance their organizational agility. Cloud computing, a new computing model that assigns the computing requests to a great number of distributed computers and service providers, has become a viable alternative for many organizations to access IT resources when needed. As the amount and variety of available data grows, business intelligence and data analytics become crucial for organizations to sense and respond to market competition and changing demands. Big data technologies such as in-memory analytics, NoSQL databases, and Hadoop Ecosystem are being adopted by more businesses. However, the understanding of the impact of these information technologies is limited. Much remains to be studied. This minitrack seeks studies that focus on the investigation of the impact of cutting-edge information technologies on organizational agility. How should a business implement these new technologies and leverage the benefits? How new technologies 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: • IT innovations and organizational agility • Business intelligence/analytics capabilities and organizational agility • Big data technologies on organizational agility • Cloud computing and organizational agility • Other emerging information technologies and organizational agility • The role of emerging technologies in agile business process management • Emerging IT management practices and organizational agility • Agile approach to implement emerging technology IMPORTANT DATES Jan. 9, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2017 begin Mar. 1, 2017: Deadline for AMCIS 2017 manuscript submissions Apr. 17, 2017: Notification of Initial Decision SUBMISSION GUIDELINES http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/ 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