-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 2nd Call for Papers: MISQE Special Issue "Digital Business Transformation" Datum: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:02:51 +0200 Von: Nils Urbach nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de Antwort an: Nils Urbach nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de An: wi@lists.kit.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
MIS Quarterly Executive
June 2017 Special Issue
"Digital Business Transformation and the Changing Role of the IT Function"
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SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS
Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth, nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de (Primary contact)
Paul Drews, Leuphana University of LĂĽneburg, paul.drews@leuphana.de
Jeanne Ross, MIT Sloan School of Management, jross@mit.edu
MOTIVATION
Digital business transformation has a dramatic impact on the corporate world. Technological trends such as big data, the internet of things, mobile computing and cloud computing significantly influence processes, products, services and business models. The potential benefits resulting from this digitization trend are enormous. At the same time, these disruptive technologies and business models are forcing companies to rethink their strategies and capabilities – and to do so quickly. Well-established companies, in particular, face pressure from start-ups with their extraordinary potential for rapid innovation and high level of implementation competence.
Due to its inherent technology focus, the digitization trend has increased the importance of information technology and heightened demands on companies’ IT functions. Accordingly, besides ensuring the regular IT operations, IT functions are increasingly requested to proactively identify technological innovations and to rapidly transfer them into marketable solutions – and with that to directly contribute to the company’s overall success. Many IT functions do not have the necessary structures, processes and abilities to systematically develop business innovations. Additionally, they are often perceived as being too bureaucratic, hardly flexible and not on a par with the business departments. Hence, the IT function is undergoing a change that comprises new modes of internal organization as well as new forms of collaboration and alignment with other business departments. Furthermore, many IT units are taking on responsibility for providing digital services directly to the enterprise’s customers and consumers.
Given the importance of these changes to IT practice, MISQE is seeking papers for a special issue that will explore how IT functions can cope with the changes brought on by the digital economy, and how IT functions can enable, support or even drive the digital business transformation. With this special issue, we hope to contribute to discussions about the implications of digitization on the IT function, its structures, processes and people, as well as about the adjustments that are necessary to address the new challenges.
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
Organizational change, governance and business/IT relationship
o New organizational designs
o Bi/multimodal / two-speed / multi-speed IT organization
o New collaboration and alignment models between (digital) business and IT
o Demand management for developing digital services
o Changing IT governance structures and budgeting processes
o Role of the CIO / CDO
New IT capabilities
o Digital strategy development
o IT innovation management approaches
o Technology scouting
o Managing risks of digitization
Changes in the IT value chain / sourcing
o Changing integration of external partners
o New sourcing models and partners
o Integration of external innovation capacities
Changing development practices
o User-centered software development practices
o Agile project management
o Intermingling of software development and IT operations (DevOps)
Changes in IT infrastructure provisioning
o The future of cloud computing, cloud markets
o Standardization and adaptability of IT architectures
o Data center management
Changes in workforce
o Skill development for the digital age
o Developing the workplace of the future
IMPORTANT DATES AND REVIEW PROCESS
In the tradition of the MISQ Executive, the path to publication is fast-paced with rapid review turnaround. We encourage interested authors to contact the editors before submitting in order to receive early guidance and reduce review time.
Special Issue full paper submission deadline: October 17, 2016
First editorial review sent to authors: November 28, 2016
Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: January 9, 2017
Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: February 20, 2017
Final submission of accepted papers deadline: April 3, 2017
MISQE publication: June 2017
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via e-mail to the special issue editors. For the format of the papers, please follow the regular submission guidelines on the MISQE website. The size of the manuscript should be between 7,000 and 9,000 words.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen
Cynthia Beath, McCombs School of Business
Tilo Böhmann, University of Hamburg
Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington
Pernille Kræmmergaard, IT University of Copenhagen
Christine Legner, HEC Lausanne
M. Lynne Markus, Bentley University
Christian Matt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Martin Mocker, ESB Reutlingen and MIT Sloan School of Management
Benjamin Mueller, University of Groningen
Joseph Nehme, HEC Paris
Joe Peppard, ESMT Berlin
Maximilian Röglinger, University of Bayreuth
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology
Sandra Sieber, IESE Business School
Mary Sumner, Southern Illinois University
Huseyin Tanriverdi, McCombs School of Business
Michael Wade, IMD Lausanne
Markus Westner, OTH Regensburg
Martin Wiener, Bentley University
Till Winkler, Copenhagen Business School
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen
Stehanie Woerner, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach
Professor of Information Systems
and Strategic IT Management
University of Bayreuth
Wittelsbacherring 10
95444 Bayreuth GERMANY
Phone +49 921 55-4712
Fax +49 921 55-84-4712
nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de
www.sim.uni-bayreuth.de
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