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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Pre-</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ICIS Academic Workshop 2010 and Special MISQE Dec. 2011 Issue</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">“New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital World”</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Sponsored by the Society for Information Management</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial"> (SIM</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">)</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial"> and MIS Quarterly Executive</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial"> (MISQE)</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">December 11th 2010, 10:00 a.m.</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> 5:00 p.m.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Central Hyatt Regency. S</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">t. Louis at the Arch</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the pre-ICIS 2010 SIM Academic Workshop to be held from 10am-5pm on Saturday, December 11th, at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch, St. Louis, MO. This year</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">s workshop will inc</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">lude invited and competitive paper presentations that focus on the theme: New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital World.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">In today's world we see information technologies increasingly embedded in organizations' products, processes and decisions. Trends in t</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">he use of the Internet for multimedia, scalable platforms, analytical software, wireless technologies and internetworking are changing the way business is conducted. Collectively, these trends indicate that there is greater potential to leverage advanta</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">g</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">es of digitalization. But what does this mean for IT management roles in the company? What does this mean for C-level roles? What does it mean for middle management roles? Are there newer types of management roles emerging? Are there new ways to manag</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> IT and business relationships to create new digital value? How can companies effectively and efficiently leverage these resources?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">For this pre-ICIS workshop we are seeking "research for practice" papers that address the changing role of management in tod</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ay's increasingly digital world. We are defining management broadly - to include not only C-level roles but the spectrum of roles involving the management of the IT resource and its relationship with business. We are particularly interested in field res</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">arch that reveals the challenges faced by managers due to increasing IT embeddedness, and ways of dealing with these challenges. These ways could be new or learned from emerging technology management and e-business innovations of the recent past. Submis</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">s</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ions viewed most favorably will be those that provide interesting frameworks, rich illustrations and practices that can be applied by other companies.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Themes to be addressed include but are not restricted to:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Changing roles of C-level and mid-level IS</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">managers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Changing roles of C-level and mid-level business managers due to IT embeddedness</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Challenges faced by IS managers due to new digital initiatives</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> New ways of fostering IS-business relationships</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> CEO management of IS resources in a digital wor</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ld</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Managing internal and external IT innovation</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Conceiving, managing and evaluating the IT value proposition</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Transformational IS management</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Profiles of successful C-level IS managers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Workshop Deadlines:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Submit extended paper Abstract (2 pages of</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">text, single spaced): Friday, October 1st, 2010 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Notification of workshop acceptance with preliminary editorial feedback: Monday, November 1st, 2010 </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">All submissions should be sent to all the Program and Special Issue Co-Chairs: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Varun Grover, Clemson University, vgrover@clemson.edu </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Elena Karahanna, University of Georgia, ekarah@uga.edu</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">•</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"> Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California, elsawy@marshall.usc.edu</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Workshop registration will be posted on the SIM web site: www.simne</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">t.org</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<B><FONT FACE="Arial">Special Issue of MIS Quarterly Executive for December 2011</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">We are pleased to announce that the December 2011 issue of MISQ Executive will be a special issue dedicated to academic research on the same topic: New IS Leadership Roles for a Digital Worl</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">d. All papers will be submitted to a regular MISQE review process under the guidance of the special issue editors. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Authors are encouraged to submit full papers intended for an IT executive readership that describe practice-oriented research findings and</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">guidelines. Authors of accepted SIM Academic Workshop abstracts have the option of an early full paper submission (January 1st 2011) to receive preliminary editorial feedback with specific suggestions for developing their ideas prior to the special issue</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">f</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">ull paper deadline open to all researchers.</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">All authors are encouraged to look at prior published MISQE research articles for presentation models. All prior articles can be downloaded free by AIS and SIM members at:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Arial">www.misqe.org</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Important Dates: </FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Speci</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">al Issue full paper submission deadline: February 15th 2011 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">First editor reports returned to authors: April 4th 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Resubmission due for selected papers: June 3rd 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Final decisions and editorial suggestions to authors: August 1st 2011 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Final submis</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">sions due: September 1st 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">MISQE editorial work: Completed by October 18th 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">MISQE publication: December 2011</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Omar A. El Sawy</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Professor of Information Systems</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P DIR=LTR><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">USC Marshall School of Business</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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