<font size=3 face="Arial">AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: Enterprise Architecture
& Organizational Success</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial">Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process
of developing an enterprise Information Technology architecture – both
its description and its implementation. An EA description focuses on a
holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems
and how and what they are used for within an organization. An enterprise
architect (and his/her team) develops the strategy and enables the decisions
for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the business
operations as well as to assess, select, and integrate the technology into
the organization’s infrastructure. Alignment between business and IT has
remained one of the top three issues for CIOs and IS managers for several
years as reported by CIO magazine. </font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial">An EA implementation focuses on remediating,
renovating, or replacing IT systems in compliance with the EA description
to achieve the proposed benefits. EA is central to the execution
of business strategies. Organizations vary in their degree of EA maturity.
While the research literature has devoted substantial attention to the
development of effective EA frameworks and the alignment of business and
IT, there is very little empirical evidence about the organizational benefits
of EA. For example, we know very little about which processes, approaches
or coordination practices lead to an effective architecting effort or whether
this effort leads to measurable organizational benefits.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial">Consequently, we are soliciting paper submissions
that: advance our knowledge of EA; help us learn about effective processes
and approaches to effectively manage the EA; and begin to identify ways
to measure the organizational benefits derived from EA. Papers will be
solicited in several areas, including, but not limited to the following:
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<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Architecting
Processes, Methodologies and Practices</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Architectural
Frameworks and Theory</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Tools
and Techniques Supporting Architecting </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Service-Oriented
Architectures (including Web Services)</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">System
versus Software Architectures</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Addressing
EA Challenges</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Integration
of EA with IT Governance and SOA</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">Surveys
and Case Studies</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Symbol">· </font><font size=3 face="Arial">EA
and Organizational Success</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Important dates:</b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">February 22, 2013 Deadline
for paper submissions</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">April 22, 2013
Notification
of acceptance</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">May 9, 2013 Final
copy due</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Instructions for authors:</b></font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">The entire paper should be no more than 5,000
words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and
references. All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed,
and must be submitted using the online submission system at </font><a href=http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010><font size=3 face="Arial">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010</font></a><font size=3 face="Arial">.
For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference,
visit the AMCIS 2013 website at </font><a href=http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/><font size=3 face="Arial">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</font></a>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial"><u>Mini-Track Co-Chairs</u><br>
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Frank Armour, Kogod School of Business, American University, </font><a href=mailto:farmour@american.edu><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>farmour@american.edu</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Arial"><br>
William DeLone, Kogod School of Business, American University, </font><a href=mailto:wdelone@american.edu><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>wdelone@american.edu</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Arial">
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial">J. Alberto Espinosa, Kogod School of Business,
American University, </font><a href=mailto:alberto@american.edu><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>alberto@american.edu</u></font></a>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">Stephen Kaisler, i_SW Corporation,Inc, </font><a href=mailto:skaisler1@comcast.net><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>skaisler1@comcast.net</u></font></a>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland University,
Germany, </font><a href="mailto:loos@iwi.uni-sb.de"><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>loos@iwi.uni-sb.de</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Arial">
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