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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2010</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Information systems reengineering for modern business systems: ERP, SCM, CRM and E-Commerce Management Solutions</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">A book edited by Dr. Raul Valverde, and Dr. Malleswara Talla</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Concordia University, Canada</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">To be published by IGI Global: <a href="http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=838" target="_blank">http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=838</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Introduction</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The vast majority of enterprise information systems (IS) were implemented in the early days of computing by using the traditional paradigms and implemented with a structured computer languages such as COBOL. However, with recent developments, particularly the trends towards e-Commerce, ERP, Customer Relationship Management and Supply chain management, many companies are realizing that they will have to migrate to the new systems to take advantages of these new challenges. </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Although the management makes strategic decisions to implement the new systems, such projects often fail for several reasons: the new systems are quite expensive, involve a radical or unwanted changes to existing processes, and often cumbersome to implement. In fact, it is possible to perform reengineering of legacy systems and internal processes to reap up the same benefits of new systems in a cost effective manner. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Objective of the Book</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The main objective of the book will be to cover different techniques that could be used in industry in order to reengineer internal processes and the legacy systems into more flexible systems capable of supporting modern trends such as ERP, Supply chain management systems and E-commerce.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Target Audience</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">The target audience of this book will be composed of: (a) Information systems professionals and business executives looking for new techniques for reengineering legacy systems; (b) Information systems researchers interested in reengineering the existing systems to adopt and implement the feature of modern systems; and (c) management consultants and academia to examine the internal processes to propose reengineer them successfully. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">1. Introduction, Legacy Systems and Internal Business Processes</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">2. Information Systems reengineering methods</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">3. Internal Process reengineering methods</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Techniques for Legacy systems and the internal processes to successfully adopt and implement the features required for new business challenges, including:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">4. Reengineering for Supply chain management systems</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">5. Reengineering for Enterprise Resource Planning systems implementation</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">6. Reengineering for Customer Relationship Management systems implementation</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">7. Reengineering for E-commerce</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Submission Procedure</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 20, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 1, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Additional information regarding this publication can also be found at <a href="http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~rvalverde/book.htm" target="_blank">http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~rvalverde/book.htm</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Publisher</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"> This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit <a href="http://www.igi-global.com" target="_blank">www.igi-global.com</a>. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Important Dates:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">April 15, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">April 20, 2010: Notification of Acceptance</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">August 1, 2010: Full Chapter Submission</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">October 15, 2010: Review Result Returned</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">January 2, 2010: Final Chapter Submission</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">January 31, 2011: Final deadline</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Dr. Raul Valverde and Dr. Malleswara Talla</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Department of Decision Sciences and MIS</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Concordia University</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">1455 De Maisonneuve, West,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Montreal, Canada, H3G 1M8.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">E-mail: <a href="mailto:rvalverde@jmsb.concordia.ca">rvalverde@jmsb.concordia.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:mrtalla@jmsb.concordia.ca">mrtalla@jmsb.concordia.ca</a></font></div>
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