<div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Call for papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">AMCIS 2014: 20th Americas Conference on Information
Systems<br>
Savannah, Georgia, August 7-10, 2014</span></p>
<h2 style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Track:</span><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Strategic and Competitive Use of
Information Technology</span></h2>
<h4 style="margin-top:0in;text-align:justify;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Mini-Track: Information Systems Evaluation </span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Problems
with information systems (IS) include overly lengthy development times, high
implementation and maintenance costs and disappointing returns on investments. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Evaluation
of information systems is increasingly important due to high stakes in
information systems (IS) dependence, cost and return on investment (ROI). IS
evaluation is challenging due to factors of IS complexity and difficulties in
defining meaningful measures that account for socio-technical issues and
unpredictable IS benefits. Moreover, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">IS evaluation research
often focuses on the organizations and end users deploying information systems.
Yet, information systems are increasingly designed and used in complex ecosystems
where all stakeholders, including vendor organizations and their employees, are
expected to create value for themselves, their clients, and the ecosystems while
minimizing waste. IS evaluation methods and their relevant combinations that
enable all relevant stakeholders to measure and create value as well as <span style> </span>minimize waste together in the ecosystems are
especially important for tackling the root causes of problems such as budget
and schedule overruns and lower than expected ROI. For example, functional size
measurement is a well-known methodology that both vendors and clients can use for
pricing IS development and maintenance projects in $/function point, evaluating
the earned value in the projects by the number of function points delivered to
clients, and assessing the quality of information systems and making investment
decisions to improve quality (e.g., the number of defects per function point).
Other methodologies are also of interest.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This
mini-track will focus on Information Systems Evaluation with a goal of
identifying factors to help measure, justify, and steer IS development and
deployment initiatives, including investment decisions. The objective of this
track is to publish research on concepts, methods, frameworks and case studies
in IS evaluation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
possible topics include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS evaluation methods for
facilitating the co-creation of value and the elimination of waste by all
relevant stakeholders (e.g., strategic product line roadmapping, requirements
prioritization, and release management) </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Methods for pre and post IS
deployment appraisal </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Qualitative and Quantitative
Evaluation Methods </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Capital Budgeting and Financial
Appraisal of IS Investments </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Socio-technical aspects of
appraisal methods </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizational, Political,
Cultural, Legal, Regulatory, and other barriers to IS evaluation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Macro-economic, Industry-wide,
or Ecosystem-specific Assessment of IS </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IS ROI measures </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cost/Benefit and Risk Analyses
and Management of integrated enterprise systems or applications </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Empirical studies are also
solicited, which evaluate specific types of IS such as: </span></li><ul type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Collaborative Systems </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Customer Relationship
Management Systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision Support Systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">eLearning systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Enterprise Systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Healthcare Information Systems</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Knowledge Management Systems </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Project (Portfolio) Management
Systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Product Lifecycle Management
Systems</span></li></ul></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These topics can be investigated from a vendor’s and/or a
client’s perspective. Evaluation can focus on entire information systems or the
artifacts (partially) representing the systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submit your manuscript before March 1, 2014 at<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://email.jyu.fi/OWA/redir.aspx?C=jSxrK-TxHUiZuaGtzA5OZl2eVaUu6dAIrhBwka1UHXikugIj7DV7No_RfqqP6noPSph-dXCnzeg.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmc.manuscriptcentral.com%2famcis2014" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
<br>
Important Dates:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 1, 2014<span style> </span>Submission
Deadline<br>
April 4, 2014<span style> </span>Author Notification<br>
April 18, 2014<span style> </span>Revision Deadline<br>
April 25, 2014<span style> </span>Camera Ready
Submission Deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini-Track Co-Chairs:<br style>
<br style>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Timo K. K’a’k’o’l’a’
(Primary Contact) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Jyväskylä,
Finland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:timokk@jyu.fi">timokk@jyu.fi</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lorie Obal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Southern California
Edison, USA</span></p>
</div>