[AISWorld] MCIS 2012: CFP - Track on " Business Intelligence and Information Management

[Olbrich, Sebastian, Dr.]

CALL FOR PAPERS

for a track 7th Mediterianian Conference on Information Systems (MCIS)
Guimarães, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012


Business Intelligence and Information Management



Description:
Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category for information systems which support decision makers in providing business analysis on the basis of internal and external data. It can be defined as a set of technologies, applications, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing data to help its users make better decisions. In short, Business Intelligence is core to many businesses for implementing information management and analytical process support and therefore contributes to an organization’s competitiveness and sustainable development. Advanced BI systems include unstructured data (e.g. large volumes of textual data), include external data sources (web / BI 2.0 / BI from Cloud), and deal with networking/agile environments, trigger (real-time) actions and enable data mining techniques. BI is therefore concerned with the effective deployment of organizational practices, processes, and technology to create wealth from an organization’s intangible assets such as knowledge, skills, expertise and capabilities.

Integrating and sharing data using Data Warehouses (DW) - as well as transforming data into relevant information using BI - goes far beyond just the tools and enabling technologies. Among these challenges are: developing information management strategy, deriving appropriate responsibilities (e.g. data governance) and processes, managing DW/BI financials (e.g. funding and charging), communicating DW/BI potential to the business, and aligning DW/BI demand and supply. The focus of this track is on acquisition, creation, transfer, internalization, and utilization of knowledge and decision making capital at the individual, group, organizational and societal levels. It aims to promote theoretical design science and behavioural research in these domains. We welcome regular full-length papers related to the enabling role of information systems in decision making and information management.

Suggested Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


  *   Economics of and metrics for a BI based information management
  *   Strategy and critical success factors for adopting recent developments in technology (e.g. in-memory databases, BI in the cloud)
  *   Agile DW architectures that make use of the adoption of new technologies
  *   Design, development, and use of BI applications
  *   Enablers and barriers of the organizational adoption of BI systems
  *   Acquisition, integration and adoption of BI in various organizational and social contexts
  *   Management of decision makers and resources
  *   Impact of BI programs or applications on individual, group, and organizational performance; on organizational strategy; and/or on innovation.
  *   Role of IT-based knowledge and/or decision making resources for competitive action
  *   Role of inter-organizational and social networks for creating knowledge/intelligence
  *   Cross-cultural and cross-organisational issues affecting BI architecture
  *   BI architectures for enabling Data Mining and Decision Support based on unstructured data (e.g. from the web or the web 2.0)


Types of contributions:

We welcome full research papers, research in progress-contributions as well as submissions to the paper session. The accepted full papers will be published in an indexed publication.


Important Dates:



March 9th, 2012 Deadline for paper submissions via the submission platform

May 11th Notification of Acceptance

June 1st Camera ready Paper Submission


Chairs’ contact information


Sebastian Olbrich
University of Duisburg-Essen - Mercator School of Management (MSM)
Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
sebastian.olbrich at uni-due.de<mailto:sebastian.olbrich at uni-due.de>

Henning Baars
University of Stuttgart - Chair of Information Systems 1
Keplerstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Baars at wi.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:Baars at wi.uni-stuttgart.de>

Peter Chamoni
University of Duisburg-Essen - Mercator School of Management (MSM)
Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Peter.Chamoni at uni-duisburg-essen.de<mailto:Peter.Chamoni at uni-duisburg-essen.de>

Hans-Georg Kemper
University of Stuttgart - Chair of Information Systems 1
Keplerstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
kemper at wi.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:kemper at wi.uni-stuttgart.de>
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