[AISWorld] CfP HICSS 2016 Minitrack: Information Systems Procurement and Benefits Realization

[Pekkola Samuli]

2nd Call for Papers

HICSS 2016 Minitrack: Information Systems Procurement and Benefits Realization (Organizational Systems and Technologies Track)

January 5-8, 2016
Grand Hyatt, Kauai
Website: www.hicss.hawaii.edu


Nowadays organizational information systems are acquired through numerous means: as service (cloud computing), as configurations to large enterprise systems, as packaged software, or through dedicated developed. Despite of existing tracks of research on these topics, yet, according to Gartner reports and popular press articles, numerous information systems acquisition projects fail in terms of costs, schedules, and objectives. Moreover, despite two decades on research focusing on benefits realization of IT investments, challenges to adopt the recommended practices and to realize the benefits of information systems have largely remained.

It is surprising that despite the problems the practitioners face in information systems acquisition, the topic is still too little understood in the information systems researcher community. For example, such questions as how to choose an appropriate acquisition strategy and method, how to execute the acquisition project successfully, and how to acquire IS related services have been left largely intact - even though these are significant issues for practitioners. A recent Delphi study identified benefits realization as the most important issue to be considered by IS procurement professionals in the public sector (Moe & Päivärinta 2013). Public sector procurement is strictly regulated and instructed (e.g., in Europe), so that criteria for selecting the IS need to be known early on in the acquisition process. For instance in Norway, all public ICT acquisitions need to justify rather detailed benefits to the public or to the civil servants proactively, before the acquisition takes place. Although the literature documents now several methods and techniques for benefits justification, management and realization, they have not reached wide utilization in practice. The situation is, up to large extent, identical in private sector as, for instance, business cases are difficult to write and different IS initiations are difficult to compare.   

This sets a starting point for this minitrack.  We invite papers focusing on  theoretical models, empirical results, or practical experiences on different aspects of purchasing information systems in the private or the public sector. The object of procurement initiative may range from technical systems, such as packaged software, and sociotechnical ensembles to different kinds of IS related services and procurement of tailored systems development. Topics covered, but not limited to:
.	IS procurement concepts 
.	Regulations in IS procurement
.	IS procurement and/or benefits realization processes and methods
.	Procurement and benefits realization as a part of IS development practice or methods
.	IS procurement issues, challenges, or solutions
.	Theoretical models for (understanding) IS procurement and benefits realization
.	Stakeholders of IS procurement and benefits realization
.	Case studies
.	Legal, financial, and personal issues in IS procurement
.	Business-IT alignment in IS procurement
.	Architectures and models in IS procurement
.	Customer-vendor relationship
.	Procuring IS services and IS as service
.	Procuring IS development work and consultancy
.	Benefits and benefit realization in the context of IS procurement
.	Utility of applying formal benefits realization or procurement practices

Deadlines:
 
June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.
 
August 15: Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System. At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees.
 
September 15: Accepted authors submit Final Paper. Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each paper should register by Sept 15 in order secure publication in the Conference Proceedings. 

For formatting instructions etc. see HICSS website: http://www.hicss.org/
 

Mini-Track Chairs:
Samuli Pekkola (Primary Contact)
Tampere University of Technology
samuli.pekkola at tut.fi


Tero Päivärinta
Luleå University of Technology
tero.paivarinta at ltu.se


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Samuli Pekkola

Professor, Adjunct Professor, PhD
Head of Department
Department of Information Management and Logistics
NOVI - Turning Knowledge into Value
Tampere University of Technology
PO Box 541, 33101 Tampere, Finland
t: +358 (0)40 586 0791
e: samuli.pekkola at tut.fi
twitter: SamuliPekkola