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<p class=""><strong>Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration,
and Decision Support: Role of BI and Social Media</strong><b style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></b></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SIGDSS Pre-ICIS Conference<br>Sunday December 15, 2013<br>Bocconi University, Milano, Italy<br style>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CFP for Teaching Track</span></b><br>(<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/uncg.edu/sigdss/call-for-papers/teaching-track"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">https://sites.google.com/a/uncg.edu/sigdss/call-for-papers/teaching-track</span></a><span class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">EXTENDED
DEADLINE: Monday, Sept 9, 2013 midnight PST</span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Emerging
technologies in business intelligence and analytics and social media are
fueling a need for innovative curricula in online, traditional and hybrid delivery
format that meets the industry needs. In keeping with the theme of “Reshaping
Society”, we are seeking research contributions into the pedagogical practices
that address acquisition, application, and continued development of the
knowledge and skills required in the usage of analytics, collaboration, and
decision support systems with special focus on business intelligence and social
media.<br>
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Contributions could be <b style>comprehensive
research</b> or <b style>research-in-progress</b>
in teaching and learning addressing topics including but not limited to:</span></p>
<br></div><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Case
studies (with teaching note) that provide rich stories of individual
organizations' management and technological initiatives and address a variety
of issues in adoption and implementation of analytics, collaboration, and
decision support technologies:</span><br><div>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Different
stakeholders involved in decision making process and their role in
implementation success<br></span></p><p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Training,
professional education, and other approaches to build competencies required for
implementation of these technologies in companies</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Demonstrate
effectiveness of a technological solution approach versus other alternatives</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Role
of strategic planning in adoption and implementation success </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizational
challenges and barriers</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Metrics
to measure effectiveness of these technologies to enhance business value</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.75in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ethical
and/or global issues</span></p>
</div><div><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Learning
methodologies, classroom innovation, and pedagogy </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Curriculum
development with assessment methods</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pedagogical
approaches using gaming and/or simulation and their effectiveness</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Use
of hardware and/or software to enhance pedagogy</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Developing
hands-on software experiences and software tutorials</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Integrating
real-world scenario in curricula</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pedagogical
practices in developing interdisciplinary focus that cuts across traditional
functional areas</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Industry
collaborations to create simulated industry projects</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Innovative
approaches to delivering the content of online delivery models for courses in
these areas</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Differentiating
analytics, collaboration and decision support curricula for Undergraduate, MBA
and Executive Education, and Master of Science and tailoring curricula to
generalists and specialists.</span><br></div><div>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style> </b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style>Paper Guidelines</b>: <br>
Please use the <a href="http://icis2013.aisnet.org/index.php/submissions">ICIS
formatting guidelines</a> for your paper submission. <br>
Review criteria are as follows:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Topic is relevant to track's
theme and will draw an audience.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Objectives and issues are
clear and well-described.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Paper and/or teaching case
is clearly written.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Paper and/or teaching case
is well organized and flows logically.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Literature integration is
appropriate.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Methodology (or case
exhibit) is appropriate.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Analyses are appropriate</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Evidence supports authors'
arguments.</span></li><li class="" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Paper makes contributions to
the field, or has potential for contributions.</span></li></ul>
<p><b style>Page Limit Requirements</b>: <br>
Full papers must not exceed 14 pages. Teaching note for cases must not exceed
five (5) single-spaced pages.<br>
Research-in-progress papers must not exceed 7 pages. <br>
All submissions must conform to the ICIS 2013 submission template and follow
the instructions document. The page limit must include all text, figures, and
tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from
this page count. Please use the template provided on the workshop website.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style>All accepted papers will be published in the Pre-ICIS SIGDSS workshop
proceedings. Authors will retain copyright ownership. Quality papers will be
selected for publication in the<b> Annals of Information Systems </b>in a <b>Special
Issue on “Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision
Support: Role of BI and Social Media”</b> (Springer); however, they will be
subject to further review and editing as determined by the book editors.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Very limited number of
papers may be selected for virtual presentation session based on logistic
constraints of the workshop. The review criteria will be the same for all
submissions. If accepted for the virtual presentation session, the presentation
mechanism details will be communicated to the authors by the track chairs.</p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Important Dates:</b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br>
</span></b>Monday, Sept 9, 2013<span style> </span>Deadline for manuscript submission:
by midnight PST<br>
Monday, October 7, 2013<span style> </span>Communication
of Accepted Papers <br>
Monday, October 28, 2013<span style> </span>Camera ready
papers for workshop due by midnight PST<br>
Sunday, December 15, 2013<span style> </span>SIGDSS
Pre-ICIS workshop from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm<br>
Monday, February 10, 2014<span style> </span>Selected
manuscripts, camera ready version due for final editorial review</p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Submission Process:</b><br>
Prepare Manuscript using <a href="http://icis2013.aisnet.org/index.php/submissions">ICIS paper formatting
guidelines</a>.<br>
Submit papers to: <span style> </span>Babita Gupta (<a href="mailto:bgupta@csumb.edu">bgupta@csumb.edu</a> ) and Uzma Raja (<a href="mailto:uraja@cba.ua.edu">uraja@cba.ua.edu</a><span class="">)<br style>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt">Teaching
Track Chairs:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br>
</span></b>Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay, <a href="mailto:bgupta@csumb.edu">bgupta@csumb.edu</a><span class=""><br>
</span>Uzma Raja, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, <a href="mailto:uraja@cba.ua.edu">uraja@cba.ua.edu</a></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr.
Babita Gupta<br>Professor
of Information Systems<br>College
of Business<br>California
State University Monterey Bay<br>Seaside,
CA 93955</span></p>
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