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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; ">Call for Papers Pre-ICIS 2013 Academic Workshop and MIS Quarterly Executive, December 2014, </div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; ">Special Issue on <b><i>The Business Payoff of Cloud Services</i></b></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Workshop: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 10:00am - 5:00pm, Milan, Italy</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Sponsored by the MIS Quarterly Executive and the Society for Information Management</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the pre-ICIS 2013 SIM Academic Workshop to be held from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, December 14, 2013, in Milan, Italy. This year's
workshop will include invited presentations that focus on the theme: The Business Payoff of Cloud Services.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">For this pre-ICIS workshop, and for the 2014 MISQE Special Issue, we invite researchers to explore the implications of cloud strategies and practices, with an emphasis on how IT and business leaders
can drive business value from the cloud. The intent is to examine the strategic business opportunities and management challenges resulting from the tremendous growth in cloud based services.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">We encourage submissions based on in-depth case and/or field studies that analyze key business practices offering insights on what has proven to work. Submissions viewed most favorably will be
those based on original in-depth research that provides useful frameworks, proven practices, and rich illustrations of cloud services that yield significant business payoff. Lessons learned should be generalizable for other executives. Papers could focus
on (but are not limited to) the following themes:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Innovative business uses of cloud services</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud enabled new business models</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Governance practices contributing to delivering value through the cloud</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Overcoming privacy and security challenges associated cloud services</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Balancing the use of public versus private clouds</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud enabled big data and analytics opportunities</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud?s implications on enterprise architecture and IT infrastructure</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud?s implications for individual and organizational decision-making</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Selecting cloud providers and managing the contractual relationship</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Managing the quality of cloud services, SLAs, and pricing strategies</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud's ability to exploit the ?Internet of Things?</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Compatibility, standards and interoperability issues of the Cloud</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Emerging IT skillsets required for cloud services</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Managing ?stealth? adoptions by strategic business units</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">- Cloud pitfalls?and how to avoid them</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Workshop Deadlines:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Sept. 16, 2013: Submit an abstract of no more than 3 single-spaced pages of text and up to 2 figures (figures not counted in 3 page limit)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Oct. 7, 2013: Notification of workshop acceptance with preliminary editorial feedback</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Submissions should be sent to all Workshop and Special Issue Senior Editors:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Jan Damsgaard, Copenhagen Business School, <a href="mailto:jd.itm@cbs.dk">jd.itm@cbs.dk</a><<a href="mailto:jd.itm@cbs.dk">mailto:jd.itm@cbs.dk</a>></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Bill Kettinger, University of Memphis, <i>MISQE</i> SE, <a href="mailto:bill.kettinger@memphis.edu">bill.kettinger@memphis.edu</a><<a href="mailto:bill.kettinger@memphis.edu">mailto:bill.kettinger@memphis.edu</a>></div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Mary Lacity, University of Missouri-St. Louis <a href="mailto:mary.lacity@umsl.edu">mary.lacity@umsl.edu</a><<a href="mailto:mary.lacity@umsl.edu">mailto:mary.lacity@umsl.edu</a>></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Workshop registration information will be posted on the SIM web site: www.simnet.org For registration questions, contact the SIM Academic Liaison: Mary Sumner, <a href="mailto:msumner@siue.edu">msumner@siue.edu</a> Typical
workshop fee (including lunch): $100-$125</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Please note that research must be original. Articles published in or under consideration for other journals or as book chapters cannot be considered for the workshop. Papers previously presented
at conferences must be revised in order to receive consideration.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Please send a cover letter with your abstract submission that includes:</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">1. All authors names and contact information.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">2. A statement that this research has not been published by, nor is under review at, a journal or as a book or book chapter.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">2. If the research has been presented at a conference or published in conference proceedings, please indicate which conference(s).</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">4. Designation that necessary legal permission for publication has been, or can be, obtained from any identified organizations.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; "><b>Special Issue of <i>MIS Quarterly Executive</i> - December 2014</b></div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">We are pleased to announce that the December 2014 issue of MISQ Executive (MISQE) will be a special issue dedicated to academic research on the theme of this workshop. Authors do not have to submit
to or attend the pre-ICIS workshop to submit to the Special Issue. Papers will be submitted to a regular MISQE review process under the guidance of the special issue editors.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Submissions to MISQE should be written for an IT executive readership and should describe practice-oriented research findings and guidelines. All authors are encouraged to look at prior published
MISQE research articles for presentation models. All prior articles can be downloaded free by AIS and SIM members at: www.misqe.org. AIS members can also access MISQE articles via the AIS eLibrary.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Important Dates:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Special Issue full paper submission deadline: March 17, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">First editorial review sent to authors: May 2, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Paper resubmission based on editor feedback deadline: July 1, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Second editorial review, decision and suggestions to authors: August 1, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Final submission of accepted papers deadline: October 3, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">MISQE publication: December 2014</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Note: Authors of accepted SIM Academic Workshop abstracts are invited to submit a full paper by January 1, 2014, to receive preliminary editorial feedback for developing their ideas prior to the
special issue full paper deadline, which is open to all researchers.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">William J. Kettinger</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">FedEx Chair of Excellence and Professor</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Department of MIS</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Fogelman College of Business and Economics</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">University of Memphis</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Memphis TN 38152 USA</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Office: +1 901-678-4547</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">Mobile: +1 901-267-9272</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; ">email: <a href="mailto:bill.kettinger@memphis.edu">bill.kettinger@memphis.edu</a></div>
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