[AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 Call for Papers: Enterprise Architecture & Organizational Success minitrack

[Alberto Espinosa]

AMCIS 2012 - Call for Papers

Mini-Track: Enterprise Architecture & Organizational Success

Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process of developing an enterprise 
Information Technology architecture ? both its description and its 
implementation. An EA description focuses on a holistic and integrated 
view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are 
used for within an organization. An enterprise architect (and his/her 
team) develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, 
developing, and deploying IT systems to support the business operations as 
well as to assess, select, and integrate the technology into the 
organization?s infrastructure. Alignment between business and IT has 
remained one of the top three issues for CIOs and IS managers for several 
years as reported by CIO magazine. 

An EA implementation focuses on remediating, renovating, or replacing IT 
systems in compliance with the EA description to achieve the proposed 
benefits.  EA is central to the execution of business strategies. 
Organizations vary in their degree of EA maturity. While the research 
literature has devoted substantial attention to the development of 
effective EA frameworks and the alignment of business and IT, there is 
very little empirical evidence about the organizational benefits of EA. 
For example, we know very little about which processes, approaches or 
coordination practices lead to an effective architecting effort or whether 
this effort leads to measurable organizational benefits.

Consequently, we are soliciting paper submissions that: advance our 
knowledge of EA; help us learn about effective processes and approaches to 
effectively manage the EA; and begin to identify ways to measure the 
organizational benefits derived from EA. Papers will be solicited in 
several areas, including, but not limited to the following: 

? Architecting Processes, Methodologies and Practices
? Architectural Frameworks and Theory
? Business Process Architecture
? Tools and Techniques Supporting Architecting 
? Service-Oriented Architectures (including Web Services)
? System versus Software Architectures
? Addressing EA Challenges
? Integration of EA with IT Governance and SOA
? Surveys and Case Studies
? EA and Organizational Success

Important dates:

March 1st. 2012 Deadline for paper submissions
April 6, 2012   Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2012  Final copy due

Instructions for authors:
The entire paper should be no more than 5,000 words, including all 
materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references. All 
conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be 
submitted using the online submission system at  
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010. For complete instructions for 
authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2010 website 
at  http://www.amcis2010.org
 
Mini-Track Co-Chairs

Frank Armour, Kogod School of Business, American University, 
farmour at american.edu
J. Alberto Espinosa, Kogod School of Business, American University, 
alberto at american.edu
Stephen Kaisler, SHK and Associates, skaisler1 at comcast.net
William DeLone, Kogod School of Business, American University, 
wdelone at american.edu 
Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland University, Germany, loos at iwi.uni-sb.de 
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