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Business Analytics for the Management of Information Systems
Development
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Special issue call for papers from Information Technology &
People
Submission deadline: 30th September 2020
Special issue editors:
Denis Dennehy, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Email:
denis.dennehy@nuigalway.ie<mailto:denis.dennehy@nuigalway.ie>
Ilias Pappas, University of Agder, Norway
Email:
ilias.pappas@uia.no<mailto:%20ilias.pappas@uia.no>
Samuel Fossa Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France
Email:
s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr<mailto:s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr>
Katina Michael, Arizona State University, USA
Email:
katina.michael@asu.edu
<mailto:katina.michael@asu.edu>
<mailto:katina.michael@asu.edu>Overview of Special Issue
Information Systems Development (ISD) has been part of the
intellectual core of information systems for over 40 years (Obrand
et al., 2018; Sidorova et al., 2008). Its chequered history of
successes and failures has, however, been an ongoing concern of
the IS research community (Dwivedi et al., 2015; Hassan &
Mathiassen, 2017). Despite efforts to improve the management of
ISD projects, these efforts have not had the desired effect (Lim
et al., 2011). There is anecdotal evidence that business analytics
can help project managers to (i) understand the dynamics and
collective state of complex projects, (ii) detect and forecast
trends, (iii) improve the effectiveness of risk models, (iv)
evaluate the effectiveness of a change to the development process,
and (v) distinguish questions of ‘information’ from questions of
‘insight’ (Davenport et al., 2010).
Business analytics are frequently referred to as ‘the techniques,
technologies, systems, practices, methodologies, and applications
that analyse critical business data to help an enterprise better
understand its business and market and make timely decisions’
(Chen et al., 2012, p.1166). Yet, much of the research conducted
to date has focused on the technologies of business analytics and
not enough on the people and their organisational context in which
such technologies are intended to be used (Abbasi et al, 2017;
Conboy et al., 2018; Mikalef et al., 2019). This is a significant
limitation given that the ISD environment is a highly metric
oriented, complex, and socially embedded activity that is
continuously changing (Conboy, 2009; Kudaravalli et al., 2017;
Windeler et al., 2017).
This special issue seeks to collect contemporary research on the
latest developments and challenges of how organisations exploit
business analytics to support project/portfolio managers, project
teams, and other project stakeholders.
Indicative List of Anticipated Themes
This special issue seeks a wide range of articles that draw on
diverse project settings, theories, and approaches to understand
the different aspects of business analytics as applied to the
context of ISD. The following questions are of interest for the
special issue:
• How can business analytics be used to better understand and
manage ISD projects?
• What value does business analytics provide to ISD management and
development teams?
• What tensions arise from the integration of business analytics
with traditional and agile methods and practices?
• What are the emerging best practices that enable business
analytics to be embedded within the ISD process and the wider
organisation?
• Does the deployment of business analytics make existing agile
methods and practices less valuable or even obsolete?
• What new metrics and standards can business analytics provide to
manage and control ISD projects more effectively?
• How can business analytics enable organisational learning and
innovation in the context of ISD?
• How are business analytics being applied in various types
(distributed, large scale) of ISD projects?
• How can business analytics support the scaling of ISD projects?
• What are the change management and organisational cultural
issues that need to be considered when developing analytical
capabilities?
• How can business analytics provide new ways of working in ISD
projects?
• What ethical issues stem from the use of business analytics in
ISD projects?
• How can business analytics be used to support more effective
decision making?
• What are the new theories and theoretical developments to
explain the implementation and use of business analytics in ISD
projects?
These questions are not intended to be exhaustive. Rather they are
intended to stimulate thinking about the role of business
analytics in the management of ISD projects across various levels
of analysis - from participants in individual projects through
projects, programs, portfolios, organisations, and the wider
society. We welcome submissions that address questions pertaining
to all aspects of the intersection of business analytics and ISD
project management.
Important Dates:
• Initial paper submission deadline: 30th September, 2020
• First round authors notification: 30th November, 2020
• Invited revisions deadline: 31st January, 2021
• Second round authors notification: 31st March, 2021
• Final revision deadline: 31st May, 2021
• Final authors notification: 30th June, 2021
• Projected publication date: Winter 2021
Submission Details
To view the author guidelines for this journal, please visit:
https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=itp
Please submit your manuscript via our review website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itp
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