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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mini-track title:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Business Intelligence for Organizational Performance Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Track:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence
(SIGDSS) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The goal of business intelligence (BI) is to summarize massive amounts of disparate corporate and customer data into succinct information that can help management better understand their business
processes, make informed decisions, and measure and improve organizational performance. BI can provide managers with the ability to integrate enterprise-wide data into metrics that link specific objectives to the performance of different business units. In
today’s economic downturn, accurate real-time BI metrics are even more critical for measuring and enhancing organizational performance. Many technologies contribute to BI solutions, including databases, data warehouses, data marts, analytic processing, and
data mining, among others. BI needs to acquire data from multiple platforms and provide ubiquitous access. This requirement presents numerous managerial challenges. This mini-track aims to promote innovative research in the BI domains of organizational performance
measurement and improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Suggested topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Real-time business metrics for performance measurement
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Using BI to support the “balanced scorecard”
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Developing the warehouse to create “digital dashboards”
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Critical BI success factors for management control
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Analytical processing
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Techniques for summarizing data
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assessing organizational performance using BI metrics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Information extraction and report generation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Real-time decision making</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Online analytical processing (modeling)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Business performance management (BPM) and improvement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Economic analysis of business intelligence
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Business intelligence strategies
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Business intelligence performance metrics
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Business intelligence implementation management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">BI governance, implementation, and management<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mini-track Chair(s):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. Benjamin Shao<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:ben.shao@asu.edu">ben.shao@asu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(480)727-6790<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. Robert D. St. Louis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:st.louis@asu.edu">st.louis@asu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(480)965-1440<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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