[AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2014 Minitrack: Business Intelligence/Analytics and Organizational Agility

[Peng Xu]

Call for Papers

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS'14)
August 7-10, 2014
Savannah, Georgia

Track: IT-Enabled Organizational Agility
Minitrack: Business Intelligence/Analytics and Organizational Agility

Description:

The amount of data available to businesses is exploding. Data now is considered a highly valuable corporate resource. The ability to integrate and analyze data has become extremely important in today’s turbulent environment. Business intelligence and analytics are crucial for organizations to sense and respond to market competition and changing demands. Understanding how BI/BA can be implemented to support business agility and how they can transform business processes has become imperative. Currently, the understanding of BI/BA and their impact of business agility is limited. Much remains to be studied.

This minitrack seeks studies that focus on investigation of the relationship between BI/BA and agility. How should a business implement business intelligence systems to support organizational agility? How BI/BA capability help transform a business into an agile organization?

All studies including conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative research investigating business intelligence/analytics and organizational agility are welcome. Topics for this minitrack include but are not limited to the following:

    * Business intelligence/Business Analytics capabilities and organizational agility
    *BI/BA implementation strategy
    *The role of BI/BA in organization transformation
    *Agile approach to BI/BA implementation
    *BI/BA methodology and process

Submission Process:
Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2014 Manuscript Submission Site http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers.  Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.

Important Dates:
March 1, 2014:           Submissions Due
April 4, 2014:              Author Notification of Acceptance
April 18, 2014:            Author Revisions Due
April 25, 2014:            Camera-Ready Copy Due

More information is available at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/ or by contacting the minitrack chair.

Minitrack Chair:

Peng Xu
Department of Management Science and Information Systems
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, MA 02125 USA
peng.xu at umb.edu