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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
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PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>18th <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region></st1:place> Conference on Information
Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Seattle</span></font></st1:City><font
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<st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
August 9-12, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>TRACK</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:
Strategic Use of Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>MINI-TRACK</span></font></b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:
IT Governance, Alignment, and Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Description<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An integral part of IT management is the planning,
steering, controlling, and monitoring of the enterprise IT systems and
infrastructure in an efficient and effective way. On the one hand, IT managers
have to satisfy business requirements and demonstrate the value-generating
abilities of IT to the business. On the other hand, information technology and
concepts of its application are evolving rapidly and thus managers have to decide
which innovation out of many should be adopted within their respective IT
organization.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In the last years, research and practice have
developed and highlighted the benefits of new concepts to cope with these
challenges. These are for instance concepts from: IT governance, IT alignment
as well as enterprise architecture management. Furthermore, a lot of (best
practice) reference models and frameworks (e. g. COBIT, ITIL, CMMI), standards
(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">ISO</st1:City> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">38500</st1:PostalCode>,
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20000</st1:PostalCode></st1:place>, etc.), and tools
were developed and refined. They all provide methodological support to IT
management.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The mini track “IT Governance, Alignment, and
Architectures” aims to review and discuss the state of the art of
methodological support from a holistic perspective and will debate new
approaches to support IT governance, business/IT alignment and IT
architectures. In addition, new challenges and empirical findings should be
analyzed within this domain. Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome
and will be considered for this Mini-Track.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Research papers of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>-
Relationship between and linking of IT governance and enterprise architectures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>-
Interdependencies between IT governance and enterprise architecture<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- IT
governance frameworks and their application<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- Benefits
of frameworks and standards in IT governance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>-
Comparison, mapping and integration of IT governance/ best practice frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>-
Methodological support for IT governance and business/ IT alignment<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- IT
governance architectures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>-
Maturity models for IT governance, alignment and enterprise architectures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- IT
processes and controls<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- Impact
of IT governance on the business value of IT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><a name="_GoBack"></a><font size=3
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Arial'>- Education in IT governance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial'>- Case
studies in IT governance / enterprise architecture<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Mini-Track Chairs: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Matthias Goeken <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Danijel Milicevic <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Janusch Patas <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
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