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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Encouraging Business-Academic Interaction - Aug 5th 10:30am till 5:00pm, as a part of AMCIS 2011 (</span></em><a href="http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/" target="_blank"><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://amcis2011.aisnet.org</span></em></a><em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>) </span></em><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IS Community</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AMCIS 2011 has decided to replace the CIO forum with a unique <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Business Academic Exchange forum. </span></strong>Six senior IT executives from GM, Chrysler, CSC, VW, Takata and Plante Moran are working with Professors Ritu Agarwal and Benn Konsynski and AMCIS conference and program committee to support interaction between academic colleagues and business/IT executives. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They have posed 14 questions and are looking to interact with IS research community till the end of April (April 30th, 5pm EST). These interactions can take place at the special web site created: <a href="http://www.businessacademicexchange.com/" target="_blank">www.businessacademicexchange.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you like your research to be considered for presentation and feedback, please use the link on the web site to submit a 2-3 page summary with appropriate references by April 30th. The executive committee will review the summaries submitted and select six of these for presentation at the AMCIS 2011 conference. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>MIS Executive Quarterly has agreed to review these summaries and ask the presenters to submit a full paper for a fast track review for potential publication. </span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>The selected presentations will be Module 2 of the BAE forum on Aug 5th. Module 1 of the BAE forum will allow executives to discuss some additional questions for future research and Module 3 will support some out of box thinking in IT (using a unique Ignite format (see <a href="http://www.igniteautomotive.org/" target="_blank">www.igniteautomotive.org</a> for the format). A special call will be sent to IS community on this at a later time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your participation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>Mohan Tanniru<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>