[AISWorld] CFP Government e-Strategic Planning and Management

[Chris Reddick]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission: 15th October 2012 
Full Chapter Submission: 31th January 2013 
Government e-Strategic Planning and Management: Practices, patterns and roadmaps
A Book Edited by Dr. Leonidas G. Anthopoulos1, and Dr. Christopher G. Reddick2 , 
1TEI of Larissa Greece, Greece, 2University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
To be published by Springer Science and Business Media

1. Introduction
Various Government e-Strategies have been developed since the late 1990s in an attempt to describe the vision for administrative and for societal change, the objectives and the priorities with regard to the development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at national and at supranational levels. Terms such as the European “Information Society”, the U.S. “Information Highways” and the Korean and Chinese “Informatization” try to describe social transformation that occurs due to the ICT, and to determine means with which Governments will capitalize the ICT to deal with national or regional challenges, to improve social life and to support economic growth. Moreover, e-Strategies define guidelines that control public investments on the ICT. In these strategic documents Governments identify the strategic development supervisors, the objectives, the Critical Success Factors (CSFs), the evaluation frameworks, and the estimated outcomes. Different countries recognize different challenges, prioritize different objectives and determine alternative paths to achieve in their e-strategic targets. 
Additionally, e-Strategic implementation progress has been used by various organizations to measure e-Government maturity (i.e., the United Nations’ e-Government Readiness index, and the Accenture’s maturity model), and to associate ICT spending with national economic growth (i.e., in terms of market’s liberation and corruption). Accenture for instance, classifies countries as innovative leaders (U.S.A., Singapore, Canada); visionary followers (U.K., Netherlands, Australia etc.); steady achievers (France, Germany etc.); and Platform Builders (Japan, Brazil etc.) with regard to their e-Strategic progress.
E-Strategic planning has been a dynamic process since all e-Strategies have closed even more than a single life-cycle. These strategic updates are usually not justified efficiently by Governments. E-strategic planning, management and review are complex processes that have to consider and account on various determinants, which belong to either the external or the internal environment of the application area. As a result, it is extremely difficult to an external observer who has not participated in these processes and who does not live in the particular geographic region to understand these parameters and to recognize how they impact the strategic life cycle and how the strategic objectives are being updated. 

2. Objectives
This book focuses on the analysis of various e-strategies and of their updates with means of strategic management. It aims to illustrate the alternative e-strategic approaches that are followed around the world -with the capitalization of recent trends in strategic management theory- and addresses the gaps that appear between e-strategic updates. Invited authors have to use strategic management theory and tools in order to analyze and describe the e-strategic evolution in their cases. More often than not, authors can evaluate e-strategic management approaches and present multi-criteria decision making systems for e-strategic transformation. 
Concluding, the aim of this book is to invite and depict experiences from national and supranational cases, which come from different geographic areas regarding e-strategic planning and management. More specifically: 
-	It aims to demonstrate e-strategic initiation and development across different countries and continents, and the association between policies and ICT;
-	it seeks to perform a systematic analysis of various representative cases, in order to capture the realized e-Strategic transformation; 
-	it focuses on the extraction of the critical success factors that guide e-strategic progress and the criteria set by decision makers for e-strategic reviews;
-	it aims to illustrate the reasons that drive e-strategic updates; 
-	it aims to summarize on patters for e-strategic evolution, according to the presented cases.

3. Intended Audience and Potential Uses
1.	Government CIOs, Strategic Leaders, Decision Makers, IT/IS Managers, Analysts and Designers seeking to draft e-strategic change plans. 
2.	Consultants and practitioners desirous of new solutions and technologies to define visions and missions for their Government clients.
3.	Business management, public policy and IS management educators interested in imparting knowledge about the vital issue of e-strategic management.
4.	Academic and consulting researchers looking to uncover and characterize new research problems and programs.
5.	E‐Government professionals involved with technology strategic planning, technology procurement, management of technology projects, consulting and advising on technology issues and management.

5. Recommended Topics and Themes
In the context of e-strategic management the proposed book intends to include, but is not limited to, chapters in the following broad topics and themes:
1.	Case studies and user experiences regarding e-strategic development at national and supranational level. 
2.	Government 2.0 and e-strategic development in countries and territories with different levels of e‐government capability and maturity.
3.	The context of strategic management (theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, recent and future trends and other supporting aspects of strategic management) with regard to the ICT, Strategic (systems) thinking in the public sector.
4.	Transparent, open government, connected government and recent trends regarding e-strategic formulation.
5.	Portfolio management, public sector governance, government performance, investment management.
6.	Economic value and impact of open and of connected government as a result of recent e-strategic transformation.
7.	Government interoperability, Government e-service innovation and management, Enterprise Architecture for e-strategic management.
8.	Government transformation and modernization, public sector reforms.
9.	Open data initiative, linked data for e-strategic management (i.e., the dashboards).
10.	Policies, regulations and mandates for driving government ICT programs.
11.	Public private partnerships for e-strategic planning, management and development.
12.	Segments’ presentation and association with the e-strategy (i.e., public services, healthcare, defense, education, disaster management, manufacturing, transportation and services etc.).

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October, 15, 2012, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 31, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by January 31, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by Springer Science and Business Media, publisher of the Public Administration and Information Technology (http://www.springer.com/series/10796) book series. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates and Deadlines
October 15, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 31, 2012: Notification of Proposal Acceptance
January 31, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
April 15, 2013: Notification of Chapter Acceptance along with Reviewer Comments
May 15, 2013: Final Chapter Submission along with signed Copyright Agreement
June 15, 2013: Final Deadline

Editorial Advisory Board
The Editors will be advised and supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), consisting of leading specialized experts from the academia and industry. The current members of the EAB include:
Dr. Pallab Saha, National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems Science
Dr. Panos Fitsilis, Professor, Project Management Department, Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
Dr. Pantelis Ipsilantis, Professor, Project Management Department, Technological Education Institute (TEI) of Larissa, Greece
Dr. Athina Vakali, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Gouscos Dimitris, Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Michael Knight, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, IGI Global, knightm at uwgb.edu

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Leonidas Anthopoulos
Project Management Department,
TEI of Larissa, Greece
Tel: +306932100198
e-mail: lanthopo at teilar.gr