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<font face="Times New Roman">Call for Papers 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Minitrack: <strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Information Systems Strategy and Implementation</span></strong></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Track: IT Strategy and Management</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Minitrack description:</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Unquestionably, information systems (IS), along with its supporting information technology (IT), continue to increase in importance in nearly all organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As organizations scramble to develop and apply IT in new ways, the need to identify and implement an IS strategic plan becomes increasingly critical.</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">To date, however, implementations of IS strategies have not had high success rates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Though this has been true for years, much continues to be published on how to <i>develop</i> an IS strategy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Comparatively little research focuses on implementation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is the purpose of this mini-track to focus on ways in which organizations effectively implement IS strategies in their organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Sample topics addressed in the mini-track include:</font></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font face="Times New Roman">Implementation issues considered during strategy development </font></p>
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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font face="Times New Roman">Integration of IT planning and strategy with business strategy</font></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">Important Dates:</font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>17-Feb-2011<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Submission deadline </font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>24-Mar-2011<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Authors notified of paper acceptance decision </font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>21-Apr-2011<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Camera-Ready Papers due</font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">Submissions via manuscript central system: <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">AMCIS website <a href="http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/</a></font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">D. Lance Revenaugh</font></span></strong></p>
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<a href="mailto:revenaug@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman">revenaug@gmail.com</font></a></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">Colorado Technology University</font></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">Raymond Papp</font></span></strong></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><u><span style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt"><a href="mailto:rpapp@ut.edu">rpapp@ut.edu</a></span></u><span style="COLOR: blue"></span></font></p>
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<strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font face="Times New Roman">University of Tampa </font></span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>