[AISWorld] 2015 Conf-IRM in Ottawa, Canada: Call for Papers - Track "ICT Design, Development and Services Management"

[Edward Bernroider]

** Call for Papers **

2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (CONF-IRM)

Theme: Realizing the Digital Enterprise
Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 18-20, 2015

Web: www.conf-irm.org

** Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference **

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: January 10, 2015
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 21, 2015
Final Submission due date for accepted papers: March 09, 2015
Early Registration deadline: March 23, 2015

TRACK
ICT DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND SERVICES MANAGEMENT

CO-CHAIRS
Edward W.N. Bernroider, Rob Benyon, Barbara Krumay

TRACK COVERAGE
This track is a broad-based call for research aimed at designing and 
developing ICTs with a special emphasize on Service Management. In this 
track we seek to explore the status of international research about the 
ways in which new ICT designs allow organizations to store and process 
information and contemporary avenues for ICT development. By this we 
mean, how organizations extract value from ICTs through, e.g., effective 
strategy, design and development processes. This includes the general 
application and understanding of Service Management as well as how the 
ideas relate to IT services.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS
This track encourages the submission of research papers, 
research-in-progress papers, teaching cases, and panel proposals in the 
following areas (but not limited to):
- Requirements Engineering
- ICT Evaluation and Decision Making
- Make or Buy Decisions
- ICT Development Methodologies
- Software Processes and Process Improvement
- Metrics and Maturity Models
- Service Innovation and Management
- Best practice in IT Service
- Service Desk & Incident Management
- Service Strategy
- Service Design
- Service Transition
- Service Continuity Management
- Continual Service Improvement
- Service Offerings and Agreements
- ICT Projects and Program Management
- Service Performance Management

SUBMISSION TYPES AND GUIDELINES

Full Length Submissions:
Submissions must be no more than 12 pages, including references, 
appendices and title page.  All submissions must follow the submission 
template specifications. Submissions must be original, and previously 
unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscripts. Papers that 
are highly rated by the reviewers will be considered for publications in 
selected journals. The paper that best represents, in terms of quality 
and suitability, the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded 
the "Best Paper Award" during the conference.

Research-in-Progress Submissions:
Submissions of no more than 7 pages. All research-in-progress 
submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers.

Teaching Cases:
We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on 
real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives. Cases 
should be no more than 12 pages and must be accompanied by instructor 
teaching notes (not included in the 12 pages). The teaching notes will 
not be published.

Panel and Tutorial Submissions:
Submissions of not more than 3 pages: Proposals should include the 
objectives, topics to be covered and the full details of all presenters. 
Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion; however, the 
submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel 
members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

- The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is 
strictly limited to a maximum of two.

- Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and 
all panel members and tutorial presenters MUST register AND attend the 
conference.

- Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by the above deadlines.

- While the primary language of the conferences is English, papers in 
French will also be accepted.  The ICT in Latin America and the 
Caribbean track will accept papers in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as 
English.

- Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in 
their entirety upon payment of registration fees. Papers accepted and 
presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. 
Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be 
included in the AIS e-Library.


We look forward to receiving your submission.

Edward W.N. Bernroider, Rob Benyon, Barbara Krumay
(Track Co-Chairs)