[AISWorld] 2nd CfP: AMCIS 2017 Mini-Track: IT Consulting and Organisational Transformation

[Andreas Drechsler]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

--- 2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)  ---
--- Boston, August 10-12, 2017 - http://amcis2017.aisnet.org ---

Conference Theme: A Tradition of Innovation
Track: Organisational Transformation & Information Systems (SIG-OSRA)
Minitrack: IT Consulting and Organisational Transformation

Over the past decades, the influence of the IT consulting industry
on the use and the management of IT in enterprises has increased
dramatically. Many enterprises rely on IT consulting services to
transform their business and to change the client’s socio-technical
configuration and work systems. In consulting projects, consultants
often support the organizational transformation of their clients.
They are assigned to analyse, propose, and implement IT innovations
and to optimize processes. As consulting companies are organized
as people-driven professional service organizations, they have to
put great efforts into identifying, qualifying and managing the
workforce. The current trend of digitalization will affect the
organization, processes, methods and tools of IT consulting companies.
Despite the prevalence of IT consulting projects in practice, IS
research has not covered the field of IT consulting very intensively
in the past. This mini-track provides a forum for research on IT
consulting projects, the organization of IT consulting firms and
consultants supporting organizational transformation.

Topics relevant to this mini-track may include but are not limited to:
- IT consulting from a consulting research perspective
- IT consulting from a service science perspective
- IT consulting from an organisational perspective
- IT consultants as change agents in organisational transformation
- IT consultants as enterprise engineers
   (e.g. enterprise architecture from a consultant’s perspective)
- Theoretical foundations of IT consulting research
- Business processes of IT consulting firms
- Self-transformation of IT consulting firms
- The use of IT in IT consulting companies
- Digitalization of IT consulting
- Methods, method development, and method adoption in IT consulting
- Knowledge management in IT consulting firms
- Education and training of IT consultants (skills & competencies,
   job profiles, education topics, and teaching experiences)
- HR-related issues in IT consulting
- The relationship between IT consulting and strategy consulting
- IT consulting as HR outsourcing for the IT department
- The organization of internal consulting departments
- The potentials and limitations of research transfer in cooperation
   with IT consulting companies

We welcome conceptual, empirical, and design-oriented contributions for
this mini-track. Papers must be submitted through the conference
website: http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/

You can find the paper submission guidelines and template here:
http://amcis2017.aisnet.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/


Important dates:
- January 09, 2017: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS papers begin
- March 01, 2017 1pm EST: Deadline for AMCIS paper submissions
- April 17, 2017: Notification of initial decision on submitted papers
- April 25, 2017: Deadline for camera-ready revisions
- April 28, 2017: Notification of decision on revised camera-ready papers


Minitrack Co-chairs:
- Paul Drews, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
- Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand


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Andreas Drechsler
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Management
Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington

Room 502, Rutherford House
23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

Phone: +64 4 463-5265
Fax: +64 4 463-5446
andreas.drechsler at vuw.ac.nz