-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS Mini-Track CFP - SIGOSRA Socio-technical Approaches to Digital Transformation Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:05:36 +0000 From: Regan, Elizabeth EAREGAN@mailbox.sc.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Mini-track Call for Papers SIGOSRA: Socio-technical Approaches to Digital Transformation

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have been advocating for a shift in funding priorities to focus on transdisciplinary, team-based, convergent research with high societal impact. Many areas of societal need have been tackled for decades by single disciplines or domains and yet remain challenging problems. Moreover, the average lag time for translating lab research into practice is 15-20 years. Thus, it has become increasingly apparent that many of the complex technical and societal problems the world faces are not well-served by the traditional model of individual university research groups headed by a single principal investigator. Instead, they can only be solved if researchers from multiple institutions and with diverse expertise combine their efforts. Many of these problems are systemic in nature and fall at the intersection, of engineering, technology, organizational development, and digital transformation. Another key theme is that collaborative R&D is not a quick fix, leading to increased interest in center-based research, design science, and action research.

One rapidly expanding transdisciplinary research area, for example, is healthcare delivery. The National Academies highlight the "critical role information/communications technologies, engineering and related organizational innovations must play in addressing the interrelated quality and productivity crisis facing the healthcare delivery system."

We seek contributions that help us better understand how researchers are addressing these challenges as well as practice-oriented knowledge and design artifacts for dealing with or leveraging digital transformation. How might this shift be transforming research methodologies and increasing societal impact of academic research? We invite contributions from various disciplines and different application areas such as healthcare delivery, business, and smart communities. To what extent, and how, might this shift be transforming research methodologies and increasing societal impact of academic research? We invite contributions from various disciplines including information systems and technology, systems engineering, organization science, computer science as well as interdisciplinary research that connects the aforementioned areas. We encourage papers applying a wide variety of methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research such as case studies, action research, surveys, experiments, conceptual articles, and design science. These are but a few questions that are relevant for this mini track.

Topics of interest may include:

* Collaborative Design Science approaches to digital transformation * Assessing societal impact * Building trans-disciplinary, convergent teamwork * Co-creation of IT-based solutions at the frontlines * Academic / Industry collaboration in digital transformation * Case studies in collaborative digital transformation * Center-based research approaches for digital transformation * Building stakeholder buy-in to digital transformation * Integrating technology solutions for digital transformation (data analytics, AI, machine learning, decision support, for example) * Information sharing for integrating solutions and breaking down silos (this is especially relevant in healthcare delivery system transformation or supply chain management, for example) * Overcoming competing interests to focus on the broader opportunities of digital transformation For questions, you may contact Dr. Elizabeth A. Regan earegan@mailbox.sc.edu

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