Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

 

gemeinsam mit Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western University) bin ich in diesem Jahr für den sog. „Theme Track“, dem Haupt-Track  der international führenden Wirtschaftsinformatik-Tagung ICIS 2010 in St. Louis (13.-15.12.2010) zuständig, der sich mit dem Tagungsmotto „Gateway to the Future“ befasst.

 

Einreichungen müssen auf dem ICIS-Website bis Mitternacht des 3. Mai 2010 eingereicht sein (keine Chance auf Verlängerungen irgendwelcher Art!) und den allgemeinen Vorschriften entsprechen, die Sie unter http://icis2010.aisnet.org/submissions.htm finden.

 

Wir würden uns freuen, auch aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum spannende Einsendungen zu erhalten, und haben uns bemüht, durch ein inter-kontinental ausgewogenes Programmkomitee dafür zu sorgen, dass auch Papiere, die nicht unbedingt dem reinen US-Standard entsprechen, eine Chance bekommen.

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

 

Matthias Jarke

Kalle Lyytinen

 

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Theme Track (Track 1): GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE

 

Information technology truly provides a Gateway to the Future in business, government, and society. After the PC revolution, the business process movement, the Internet and its transformation from a passive publication medium to an active and participative platform, it is clear that information technology plays a central role in shaping the world in which we live and work. However, a fundamental research question for our discipline is how the next revolutions in information technology and business will shape our research and practice in the second decade of this millennium.

 

The rate at which information technologies affect change may decrease as Moore’s law finally runs its last pico-meter or it may increase due to the ongoing financial crisis and new innovations in software and networking. On the technical side, mobile embedded systems pioneered by, but not limited to RFID, and network platforms driven by data centers and software as service models, will accelerate the convergence of computers, communications, and media. This convergence represents a major step toward ubiquitous technologies and the meshing of the digital with the material resulting in new conceptual forms.

 

On the business side, process innovation and “process pipes” are being replaced by “innovation at the edge,” where inter-organizational IT-enabled activities reach well beyond automating standard processes and IT platforms and have become important coordination mechanisms. New evolutions in social computing and the use of network-based media and representations continue to change the way people and organizations interact and the way in which business is conducted.

 

The goal of this track is to explicate and debate the impacts of these developments as well as to identify new and emerging trends that have significant potential to open this Gateway to the Future. We invite bold analyses and critical reviews of such Gateway and disruptive innovations that occur at the crossroads between technical, business, and societal evolution in the next decade.

 

Further information:

http://icis2010.aisnet.org/track1.htm