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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (BIT) CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE), University of Auckland Business School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">March 27-28, 2014 Auckland New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Technology Enabled Business Models: Platforms, Analytics, and Performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="vertical-align:top">The rapid growth of information intensive models of business has fostered a significant amount of interest in trying to understand the constituents of successful deployment of technology in information heavy organisations. In the
recent past, terms such as data science, big data, predictive analytics and technology enabled services have entered the discourse of both academia and industry. These terms appear to be largely fuelled by phenomena such as:
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The rise of the service sector (primarily due to the influence of information technologies)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The widespread acceptance of social networking by individuals and organisations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Nearly constant connectivity, including mobile technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The ability to generate and analyze large data sets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Collaborative inter-organizational service systems<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="vertical-align:top">We welcome submissions to this conference on all aspects of these issues - conceptual, empirical, case studies, topical surveys and design. The conference will have one day devoted to presentations by practitioners to enable participants
to clearly see the contemporary issues that industry faces. The second day will be devoted to academic presentations - research addressing the issues above. We intend for this to be very much a working conference - much like a workshop to enable discussion
and better development of ideas that are nascent. To encourage this, we invite the submission of extended abstracts that are six to eight single spaced pages long (approximately 2500 words).Papers presented at the conference will be included in a proceedings
volume in digital format (authors will have the option to opt out of inclusion to develop their ideas further for publication).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Important dates:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Abstract submission: 20 February 2014<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Author notification: 1 March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Conference: 27-28 March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;vertical-align:top"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Conference Co-Chairs:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Professor Margo Buchanan-Oliver (Co-Director, CODE, University of Auckland)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Professor Ananth Srinivasan (Co-Director, CODE, University of Auckland)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Extended abstracts that are six to eight single spaced pages long (approximately 2500 words. Send a pdf version as an email attachment to
<a href="mailto:a.srinivasan@auckland.ac.nz">a.srinivasan@auckland.ac.nz</a> . We expect that there will be a total of about 12 research presentations to enable a workshop style of discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Travel and accommodation:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Further details including registration details will be posted shortly on a conference website. In the meantime if you have any questions please send an email to the conference administrator Ms. Catharina Mail at
<a href="mailto:c.mail@auckland.ac.nz">c.mail@auckland.ac.nz</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">The BIT group:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="vertical-align:top">Business and Information Technologies (BIT) is a network of research institutions studying the impacts of new and online information and communication technologies on business practices in various countries. It is led by researchers
at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The study is following changes that are occurring in firms and industry sectors over an extended time horizon. The project was started in 2002 and has now grown to include 21 partners in 17 countries. A conference
is held each year and three books have been published. Further information about the group can be found at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="vertical-align:top"><a href="http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/programs-and-outreach/easton-technology-leadership/research/business-and-information-technologies">http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/programs-and-outreach/easton-technology-leadership/research/business-and-information-technologies</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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