[AISWorld] GITMA 2011 Call for papers - Post-Implementation Track

[Aileen Cater-Steel]

GITMA 2011 Call for Papers
The Twelfth Annual Global Information Technology Management Association
GITMA WORLD CONFERENCE 2011
Las Vegas, USA (http://www.gitma.org<http://www.gitma.org/>) Conference Date: June 5 - 7, 2011

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Please visit our web site (www.gitma.org<http://www.gitma.org/>) to submit your paper or panel/workshop proposal.

This conference provides a unique opportunity to all IT educators, researchers, and
practitioners from all countries to get together to network, develop lasting relationships,
and exchange ideas. The clear strength is the international participation and the following
people should attend:

*  Educators, researchers, and practitioners from North America (including US, Mexico,
and Canada
*  Educators, researchers, and practitioners from all other parts of the world, including
developed, developing, and under-developed nations.
*  Educators, researchers, and practitioners doing work in all areas of Global IT Management

Contributions are invited for the track on: Post-Implementation Issues

The Post-Implementation track is inviting papers on issues around the post-implementation deployment and use of IT among users. Post-implementation includes the ongoing operation, support and maintenance of information systems.


RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

Topics to be included in the track are:

IT service management topics, functions and processes

·         Change requests, and change management

·         Infrastructure management including capacity, availability, continuity

·         Service level management, service level agreements, service desk, incident and problem management

·         Ongoing user training and support especially in a global context
Project management

·         Project evaluation and the post-implementation review process

·         Benefits management
Software and system maintenance

·         Total cost of ownership

·         Post-implementation issues associated with outsourcing, supplier/vendor management

·         Decisions regarding upgrades to software packages

·         Software maintenance tools and techniques

·         Effectiveness of software maintenance teams

All inquiries should be directed by e-mail to the attention of the track chair Aileen Cater-Steel caterst at usq.edu.au<mailto:caterst at usq.edu.au>

JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Papers judged as high quality by the reviewers will be further considered for publication on an expedited basis in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM), Journal of Information Technology Cases & Applications Research (JITCAR), and Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS).  Many quality papers will be directly accepted in the journal: Communications of Global Information Technology (COGIT).


GITMA Program Chair: Dr. Paul Licker, licker at oakland.edu<mailto:licker at oakland.edu>, Oakland University
GITMA Conference Chair: Dr. Prashant Palvia, pcpalvia at uncg.edu<mailto:pcpalvia at uncg.edu>, Univ of North Carolina Greensboro
GITMA Local Chair: Dr. Mehmet Erdem, mehmet.erdem at unlv.edu<mailto:mehmet.erdem at unlv.edu>, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
GITMA Communications Chair: Dr. Alexander McLeod, www.amcleod.com<http://www.amcleod.com/>, Univ of Nevada, Reno
GITMA Sponsorship Chair: Dr. Choton Basu, basuc at uww.edu<mailto:basuc at uww.edu>, University of Wisconsin Whitewater


DR AILEEN CATER-STEEL
Associate Professor and Chair of IS Research Committee
School of Information Systems
Faculty of Business
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba | QLD | 4350 | AUSTRALIA
Email: caterst at usq.edu.au<mailto:caterst at usq.edu.au>
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