[AISWorld] Final Reminder and Schedule - CFP Pre-ICIS 2015 SIGLEAD Workshop

[Jim Denford]

2015 Pre-ICIS SIGLEAD Workshop
Leadership and the IS Profession: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Human Capital

The 2015 pre-ICIS Special Interest Group (SIG) SIGLEAD workshop will be held 1 pm to 5 pm on 13 December 2015, in Fort Worth, Texas. The mission of the AIS Special Interest Group on IS Leadership (SIGLead) is to:

•        Encourage and promote the study of IS leadership.

•        Create a forum for the discussion, exchange, and dissemination of information on IS Leadership.

As such, this pre-ICIS workshop is dedicated to open discussions about the most important issues today, theoretical streams and different possible ways forward. The focus of the workshop is informed discussion. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend and registration can be done on-site.

Workshop Objective

This workshop tackles new development on IS leadership and the IS profession, bringing together academic and practitioner perspectives on this critical area. Topics solicited for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

•        Educating and developing IS leaders

•        Creating sustainable IS leadership

•        IS leadership research

•        IS leadership readiness assessment

•        Attributes of effective IS leaders

•        IS technological leadership

•        Impact of IS leadership on firm performance

•        Types of IS leadership

•        Emerging issues to leaders and professionals (i.e. impact of cloud or big data on the profession)

Schedule

1-1:50 two paper presentations (25 min’s per with Q & A)
1:50-2 coffee/snack break
2-2:50 panel discussion
2:50-3 coffee/snack break
3-4:30 round table discussion
4:30-5 networking

Contacts

Workshop Co-Chairs/SIGLEAD Officers:

•        President – Mike Eom, University of Portland, eom at up.edu<mailto:eom at up.edu>

•        Past President – Greg Dawson, Arizona State University, gregdawson1 at gmail.com<mailto:gregorysdawson at gmail.com>

•        Treasurer – Jennifer Gerow, Virginia Military Institute, gerowje at vmi.edu<mailto:gerowje at vmi.edu>

•        Secretary – Jim Denford, Royal Military College of Canada, jim.denford at rmc.ca<mailto:jim.denford at rmc.ca>