[AISWorld] Reminder: Submission Deadline - MISQE Special Issue on "The Business Payoff of Cloud Services" - March 17, 2014

[Bill Kettinger (wjkttngr)]

Reminder: Submission Deadline: March 17, 2014 - MISQE Special Issue on "The Business Payoff of Cloud Services"

We are pleased to announce that the December 2014 issue of MISQ Executive (MISQE) will be a special issue dedicated to research on the Business Payoff of Cloud Services.

We encourage submissions based on in-depth case and/or field studies that analyze key business practices offering insights on what has proven to work. Submissions viewed most favorably will be those based on original in-depth research that provides useful frameworks, proven practices, and rich illustrations of cloud services that yield significant business payoff.  Lessons learned should be generalizable for other executives. Papers could focus on (but are not limited to) the following themes:

-  Innovative business uses of cloud services
-  Cloud enabled new business models
-  Governance practices contributing to delivering value through the cloud
-  Overcoming privacy and security challenges associated cloud services
-  Balancing the use of public versus private clouds
-  Cloud enabled big data and analytics opportunities
-  Cloud's implications on enterprise architecture and IT infrastructure
-  Cloud's implications for individual and organizational decision-making
-  Selecting cloud providers and managing the contractual relationship
-  Managing the quality of cloud services, SLAs, and pricing strategies
-  Cloud's ability to exploit the ?Internet of Things?
-  Compatibility, standards and interoperability issues of the Cloud
-  Emerging IT skillsets required for cloud services
-  Managing stealth adoptions by strategic business units
-  Cloud pitfalls and how to avoid them

Submissions to MISQE should be written for an IT executive readership and should describe practice-oriented research findings and guidelines. All authors are encouraged to look at prior published MISQE research articles for presentation models. All prior articles can be downloaded free by AIS and SIM members at: www.misqe.org . AIS members can also access MISQE articles via the AIS eLibrary.

Important Dates:
Special Issue full paper submission deadline: March 17, 2014
First editorial review sent to authors: May 2, 2014
Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: July 1, 2014
Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: August 1, 2014
Final submission of accepted papers deadline: October 3, 2014
MISQE publication: December 2014

Jan Damsgaard, Bill Kettinger, Mary Lacity ( Special Issue Editors)

William J. Kettinger
FedEx Endowed Chair and Professor
Department of MIS
Fogelman College of Business and Economics
University of Memphis
Memphis TN 38152 USA
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email: bill.kettinger at memphis.edu<mailto:bill.kettinger at memphis.edu>
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