<div dir="ltr"><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-track - Strategic and Competitive Use of Enterprise Systems</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Information Technology</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Mini-track: Strategic and Competitive Use of Enterprise Systems</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMPORTANT DATES</p>
<p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jan 4, 2013 : Paper submissions open</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Feb 22, 2013 : Paper submissions deadline by 11:59 p.m. (Central Time)</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 2, 2013 : Reviews completed</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
April 20-21, 2013 : Notification of paper acceptance</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">May 9, 2013 : Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</p><p align="left" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please visit the conference website at <a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a> for instructions and further information.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><h1 style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Description</span></h1>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Applications to capture, store, and modify information may help organizations to access the information but with globalization and increasing needs of organizations, single applications do not address the need for right information at the right time in the right place. Enterprise Systems (ES) have, therefore, been developed as a strategic tool in order to address the need to provide real time, accurate data, and integration among all functional areas within an organization. ES includes systems such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, supplier and customer relationship management. ES are different from traditional information systems because of their complex structures and their intertwined nature with people and organizational processes.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Strategies have provided advantage to those players who used competitive actions, policies or plans along with new tools, and technologies to achieve their objectives. Studies reveal ES may bring in many tangible and intangible benefits to organizations including data integration, business functions support, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, productivity improvement, and better business performance. However, reaping benefits from enterprise systems proved to be an elusive goal.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Generally, enterprise systems have a direct impact on the business processes. These integrated applications change business plans and objectives; therefore by definition, ES have a potential for strategic impact for organizational performance and competitiveness. Most recent trends and applications of ES are cloud migration and mobile use. In this context, this mini-track solicits empirical, theoretical and case based research studies that investigate the strategic and competitive use of enterprise systems to explain their role on organizational and business performance.</span></p>
<h1 style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></h1><h1 style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Suggested Topics</span></h1>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">The mini track solicits research studies that seek to explore the business benefits of enterprise systems through strategic use. Suggested topics include, but not limited to:</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Strategic use of mobile technologies in enterprise applications</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Cloud computing and cloud migration of enterprise systems for strategic use</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Strategic use of enterprise systems</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Alignment between enterprise systems and business strategies</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Use of enterprise systems toward increasing business performance</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Usage of enterprise systems toward gaining strategic advantage</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please contact the mini-track (co)chairs for any questions about submissions:</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tayfun Keskin, PhD,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:12pt">University of Washington Bothell,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:keskin@uw.edu" target="_blank">keskin@uw.edu</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Nazim</span> <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Taskin</span>, PhD,</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Massey University,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:n.taskin@massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">n.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">taskin</span>@massey.ac.nz</a></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Jacques Verville, PhD,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:12pt">University of British Columbia – Okanagan,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:Jacques.Verville@ubc.ca" target="_blank">Jacques.Verville@ubc.ca</a></span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><p><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Tayfun Keskin<br>
Assistant Professor, </span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">University of
Washington Bothell, School of Business<br></span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Office: UW1-236<br></span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Phone: (425) 352-3381<br>
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Address: Box 358533<br></span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">18115 Campus Way NE<br></span></i><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Bothell, WA 98011-8246</span></i></p>
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